Nottingham Forest 2-3 Reading: result and report

Championship · Friday 29 November 2013

Result

Nottingham Forest 2-3 Reading

Championship · Friday 29 November 2013, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-2

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Nottingham Forest 2-3 Reading: match report

Nottingham Forest lost to Reading 2-3 in the Championship on Friday 29 November 2013. The half-time score was 1-2.

Pavel Pogrebnyak opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Simon Cox (40') and Darius Henderson (60'). Reading scored through Pavel Pogrebnyak (8'), Kaspars Gorkss (13') and Jordan Obita (74').

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 3 yellow cards; Reading received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 5th on 27 points from 16 and Reading 8th on 25 points from 16. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 11th with 65 points, and Reading 7th with 71.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Nottingham Forest wins, 3 draws and 2 for Reading.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Goal · Pavel PogrebnyakReading · 0-1
  • 13'Goal · Kaspars GorkssReading · 0-2
  • 40'Goal · Simon CoxNottingham Forest · 1-2
  • 47'Yellow card · Pavel PogrebnyakReading
  • 54'Yellow card · Chris GunterReading
  • 60'Goal · Darius HendersonNottingham Forest · 2-2
  • 68'Yellow card · Dan HardingNottingham Forest
  • 74'Goal · Jordan ObitaReading · 2-3
  • 81'Second yellow · Chris GunterReading
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Jamaal LascellesNottingham Forest
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Nicolás FrutosNottingham Forest

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Nottingham Forest 3, draws 3, Reading 2.

Team news

Nottingham Forest expected line-up

Karl Darlow, Jack Hobbs, Eric Lichaj, Andy Reid, Henri Lansbury, Chris Cohen, Radoslaw Majewski, Darius Henderson

Reading expected line-up (4-4-1-1)

Alex Simon McCarthy, Chris Gunter, Sean Morrison, Stephen Kelly, Adrian Mariappa, Danny Guthrie, Garath McCleary, Jem Karacan, Pavel Pogrebnyak, Hal Robson-Kanu