Nottingham Forest 1-0 Sheffield United: result and report

Championship · Saturday 3 November 2018

Result

Nottingham Forest 1-0 Sheffield United

Championship · Saturday 3 November 2018, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Nottingham Forest · Sheffield United · Championship predictions

Nottingham Forest 1-0 Sheffield United: match report

Nottingham Forest beat Sheffield United 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 3 November 2018. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Lewis Grabban of Nottingham Forest in the 69th minute.

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 3 yellow cards; Sheffield United received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 7th on 23 points from 15 and Sheffield United 1st on 29 points from 15. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 9th with 66 points, and Sheffield United 2nd with 89.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Sheffield United in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Oliver Norwood of Sheffield United (8.1), ahead of Jack Robinson (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Nottingham Forest wins, 4 draws and 2 for Sheffield United.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 34'Yellow card · Matty CashNottingham Forest
  • 69'Goal · Lewis GrabbanNottingham Forest · 1-0
  • 71'Yellow card · Tobias FigueiredoNottingham Forest
  • 71'Yellow card · Claudio YacobNottingham Forest
  • 88'Yellow card · John EganSheffield United

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Nottingham Forest 2, draws 4, Sheffield United 2.

Team news

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

Costel Pantilimon, Tendayi Darikwa, Michael Dawson, Tobias Figueiredo, Jack Robinson, Claudio Yacob, Adlène Guédioura, Matty Cash, João Carvalho, Joe Lolley, Lewis Grabban

Sheffield United line-up (3-5-2)

Dean Henderson, Martin Cranie, John Egan, Jack O'Connell, Kieron Freeman, Paul Coutts, Oliver Norwood, John Fleck, Enda Stevens, Leon Clarke, Patrick McCarthy