Nottingham Forest 2-1 Leeds United: result and report
Championship · Saturday 27 August 2016
Result
Nottingham Forest 2-1 Leeds United
Championship · Saturday 27 August 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Nottingham Forest 2-1 Leeds United: match report
Nottingham Forest beat Leeds United 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 27 August 2016. The half-time score was 1-0.
P. Kasami opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from P. Kasami (16'), Damien Perquis (71') and Oliver Burke (90+4'). Leeds United scored through Kalvin Phillips (83').
Discipline: Nottingham Forest received no yellow cards; Leeds United received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 10th on 6 points from 4 and Leeds United 18th on 4 points from 4. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 21st with 51 points, and Leeds United 7th with 75.
Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-3-3 and Leeds United in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Oliver Burke of Nottingham Forest (8.6), ahead of Pajtim Kasami (8.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Nottingham Forest wins, 3 draws and 2 for Leeds United.
Key events
- 16'Goal · P. Kasami
- 36'Yellow card · Ronaldo Vieira
- 64'Yellow card · Liam Bridcutt
- 71'Goal · Damien Perquis
- 83'Goal · Kalvin Phillips
- 90+4'Goal · Oliver Burke
Head-to-head
Team news
Nottingham Forest line-up (4-3-3)
Stephen Henderson, Hildeberto Pereira, Michael Mancienne, Damien Perquis, Eric Lichaj, Pajtim Kasami, Chris Cohen, Henri Lansbury, Oliver Burke, Apostolos Vellios, Ben Osborn
Leeds United line-up (4-4-2)
Robert Green, Luke Ayling, Kyle Bartley, Liam Cooper, Charlie Taylor, Hadi Sacko, Liam Bridcutt, Ronaldo Vieira, Pablo Hernández, Chris Wood, Marcus Antonsson