Nottingham Forest 1-2 Norwich City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 17 September 2016
Result
Nottingham Forest 1-2 Norwich City
Championship · Saturday 17 September 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Nottingham Forest 1-2 Norwich City: match report
Nottingham Forest lost to Norwich City 1-2 in the Championship on Saturday 17 September 2016. The half-time score was 1-0.
Apostolos Vellios opened the scoring in the 40th minute. Nottingham Forest's goal came from Apostolos Vellios (40'). Norwich City scored through Jonathan Howson (52') and Graham Dorrans (66').
Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards; Norwich City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 9th on 11 points from 7 and Norwich City 3rd on 14 points from 7. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 21st with 51 points, and Norwich City 8th with 70.
Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-3-3 and Norwich City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jonathan Howson of Norwich City (8.3), ahead of Danny Fox (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Nottingham Forest wins, 1 draw and 3 for Norwich City.
Key events
- 34'Missed penalty · Wesley Hoolahan
- 40'Goal · Apostolos Vellios
- 52'Goal · Jonathan Howson
- 66'Goal · Graham Dorrans
- 72'Yellow card · Graham Dorrans
- 73'Yellow card · Matthew Mills
- 86'Yellow card · P. Kasami
Head-to-head
Team news
Nottingham Forest line-up (4-3-3)
Vladimir Stojkovic, Eric Lichaj, Matthew Mills, Michael Mancienne, Danny Fox, Hildeberto Pereira, Chris Cohen, Pajtim Kasami, Mustapha Carayol, Apostolos Vellios, Nicolao Dumitru
Norwich City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Michael McGovern, Ivo Pinto, Russell Martin, Timm Klose, Martin Olsson, Jonathan Howson, Graham Dorrans, Jacob Murphy, Wesley Hoolahan, Robbie Brady, Cameron Jerome