Nottingham Forest 2-1 Hull City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 18 December 2021

Result

Nottingham Forest 2-1 Hull City

Championship · Saturday 18 December 2021, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Nottingham Forest · Hull City · Championship predictions

Nottingham Forest 2-1 Hull City: match report

Nottingham Forest defeated Hull City 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 18 December 2021. The half-time score was 0-1.

K. Lewis-Potter opened the scoring in the 43rd minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Lewis Grabban (55', penalty) and B. Johnson (72'). Hull City scored through K. Lewis-Potter (43').

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards; Hull City received 6 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 9th on 31 points from 22 and Hull City 21st on 23 points from 22. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 3rd with 86 points, and Hull City 20th with 51.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 3-4-3 and Hull City in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Lewis Grabban of Nottingham Forest (7.8), ahead of Ryan Yates (7.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Nottingham Forest wins, 1 draw and 4 for Hull City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Yellow card · Sean McLoughlinHull City
  • 18'Yellow card · Grant McCannHull City
  • 29'Yellow card · Jack ColbackNottingham Forest
  • 36'Yellow card · Ryan LongmanHull City
  • 43'Goal · K. Lewis-PotterHull City · 0-1
  • 52'Yellow card · Richard SmallwoodHull City
  • 54'Yellow card · Nathan BaxterHull City
  • 55'Penalty goal · Lewis GrabbanNottingham Forest · 1-1
  • 72'Goal · B. JohnsonNottingham Forest · 2-1
  • 72'Yellow card · Joe WorrallNottingham Forest
  • 82'Yellow card · D. BernardHull City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Nottingham Forest 5, draws 1, Hull City 4.

Team news

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Nottingham Forest line-up (3-4-3)

Brice Samba, Joe Worrall, Ryan Yates, Scott McKenna, Djed Spence, James Garner, Jack Colback, J. Osei-Tutu, Brennan Johnson, Philip Zinckernagel, Lewis Grabban

Hull City line-up (3-4-1-2)

Nathan Baxter, Di'Shon Bernard, Sean McLoughlin, Jacob Greaves, Ryan Longman, Richard Smallwood, Greg Docherty, Keane Lewis-Potter, George Honeyman, Mallik Wilks, Josh Magennis