Nottingham Forest 1-1 Sunderland: result and report

Carabao Cup · Wednesday 27 August 2008

Result

Nottingham Forest 1-1 Sunderland

Carabao Cup · Wednesday 27 August 2008, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-0

Nottingham Forest · Sunderland · Carabao Cup predictions

Nottingham Forest 1-1 Sunderland: match report

Nottingham Forest drew with Sunderland 1-1 in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday 27 August 2008. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Robert Earnshaw opened the scoring in the 60th minute. Nottingham Forest's goal came from Robert Earnshaw (60'). Sunderland scored through Phil Bardsley (86') and David Healy (93').

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards; Sunderland received 2 yellow cards.

This fixture belongs to an earlier Carabao Cup season and is kept for reference.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 60'Goal · Robert EarnshawNottingham Forest · 1-0
  • 84'Yellow card · Chris CohenNottingham Forest
  • 86'Yellow card · Julian BennettNottingham Forest
  • 86'Goal · Phil BardsleySunderland · 1-1
  • 93'Goal · David HealySunderland · 1-2
  • 100'Yellow card · David HealySunderland
  • 101'Yellow card · Pascal ChimbondaSunderland

Team news

Sunderland expected line-up (4-4-2)

Craig Gordon, Danny Collins, Nyron Nosworthy, Kieran Richardson, Danny Higginbotham, Phil Bardsley, Jonny Evans, Andy Reid, Dean Whitehead, Kenwyne Jones, Daryl Murphy