Nottingham Forest 2-0 Leicester City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 14 January 2023

Result

Nottingham Forest 2-0 Leicester City

Premier League · Saturday 14 January 2023, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Nottingham Forest · Leicester City · Premier League predictions

Nottingham Forest 2-0 Leicester City: match report

Nottingham Forest defeated Leicester City 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 14 January 2023. The half-time score was 0-0.

Brennan Johnson opened the scoring in the 56th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Brennan Johnson (56') and Brennan Johnson (85'). Leicester City did not score.

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card; Leicester City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 15th on 17 points from 18 and Leicester City 13th on 17 points from 18. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 16th with 38 points, and Leicester City 18th with 34.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Leicester City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Morgan Gibbs-White of Nottingham Forest (8.6), ahead of Brennan Johnson (8.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Nottingham Forest wins, 0 draws and 1 for Leicester City.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Yellow card · Youri TielemansLeicester City
  • 56'Goal · Brennan JohnsonNottingham Forest · 1-0
  • 77'Yellow card · Daniel AmarteyLeicester City
  • 85'Goal · Brennan JohnsonNottingham Forest · 2-0
  • 85'Yellow card · Brennan JohnsonNottingham Forest

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Nottingham Forest 0, draws 0, Leicester City 1.

Team news

Nottingham Forest line-up (4-3-1-2)

Dean Henderson, Serge Aurier, Joe Worrall, Scott McKenna, Renan Lodi, Ryan Yates, Remo Freuler, Orel Mangala, Gustavo Scarpa, Brennan Johnson, Morgan Gibbs-White

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

Danny Ward, Timothy Castagne, Daniel Amartey, Wout Felix Lina Faes, Luke Jonathan Thomas, Wilfred Ndidi, Nampalys Mendy, Marc Albrighton, Youri Tielemans, Harvey Barnes, Jamie Vardy