Nottingham Forest 4-0 Reading: result and report

Championship · Saturday 23 August 2014

Result

Nottingham Forest 4-0 Reading

Championship · Saturday 23 August 2014, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Nottingham Forest · Reading · Championship predictions

Nottingham Forest 4-0 Reading: match report

Nottingham Forest beat Reading 4-0 in the Championship on Saturday 23 August 2014. The half-time score was 1-0.

Michail Antonio opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Michail Antonio (17'), Michail Antonio (47'), Matt Fryatt (53') and Britt Assombalonga (64'). Reading did not score.

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card; Reading received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 2nd on 7 points from 3 and Reading 11th on 4 points from 3. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 14th with 59 points, and Reading 20th with 49.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-4-2 and Reading in a 4-4-1-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Nottingham Forest wins, 4 draws and 3 for Reading.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Goal · Michail AntonioNottingham Forest · 1-0
  • 47'Goal · Michail AntonioNottingham Forest · 2-0
  • 53'Goal · Matt FryattNottingham Forest · 3-0
  • 64'Goal · Britt AssombalongaNottingham Forest · 4-0
  • 69'Yellow card · Chris CohenNottingham Forest
  • 80'Yellow card · Nick BlackmanReading

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Nottingham Forest 3, draws 4, Reading 3.

Team news

Nottingham Forest expected line-up (4-4-2)

Karl Darlow, Jamaal Lascelles, James Freitas, Greg Halford, Jack Hobbs, Eric Lichaj, Andy Reid, Henri Lansbury, Djamel Abdoun, Jamie Mackie, Simon Cox

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