Nottingham Forest 3-1 Millwall: result and report

Championship · Saturday 16 January 2021

Result

Nottingham Forest 3-1 Millwall

Championship · Saturday 16 January 2021, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Nottingham Forest 3-1 Millwall: match report

Nottingham Forest beat Millwall 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 16 January 2021. The half-time score was 1-0.

Sammy Ameobi opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Sammy Ameobi (34'), Sammy Ameobi (70') and Ryan Yates (83'). Millwall scored through Ben Thompson (89').

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card; Millwall received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 21st on 22 points from 23 and Millwall 16th on 26 points from 22. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 17th with 52 points, and Millwall 11th with 62.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Millwall in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Sammy Ameobi of Nottingham Forest (8.1), ahead of Cafú (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Nottingham Forest win, 4 draws and 5 for Millwall.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 34'Goal · Sammy AmeobiNottingham Forest · 1-0
  • 70'Goal · Sammy AmeobiNottingham Forest · 2-0
  • 83'Goal · Ryan YatesNottingham Forest · 3-0
  • 89'Goal · Ben ThompsonMillwall · 3-1
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Brice SambaNottingham Forest

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Nottingham Forest 1, draws 4, Millwall 5.

Team news

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

Brice Samba, Cyrus Christie, Joe Worrall, Scott McKenna, Yuri Ribeiro, Ryan Yates, Samba Sow, Sammy Ameobi, Cafú, Alex Mighten, Lewis Grabban

Millwall line-up (3-4-3)

Bartosz Białkowski, Shaun Hutchinson, Alex Pearce, Jake Cooper, Danny McNamara, Ryan Leonard, Ryan Woods, Scott Malone, Jed Wallace, Kenneth Zohore, Troy Parrott