Nottingham Forest 5-1 Leicester City: result and report

Nottingham Forest 5-1 Leicester City

Championship · Saturday 5 December 2009, 13:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Nottingham Forest · Leicester City · Championship predictions

Nottingham Forest beat Leicester City 5-1 in the Championship on Saturday 5 December 2009. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Robert Earnshaw opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Robert Earnshaw (12'), Robert Earnshaw (35'), Robert Earnshaw (49'), Paul Anderson (54') and Bamberdele Adebola (77'). Leicester City scored through Martyn Waghorn (64', penalty).

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card; Leicester City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 4th on 29 points from 18 and Leicester City 3rd on 31 points from 18. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 4th with 79 points, and Leicester City 6th with 77.

Going into the match Nottingham Forest's last five read W-D-D-D-D and Leicester City's D-W-L-W-W.