Nottingham Forest 0-1 Sunderland: result and report

Championship · Saturday 30 December 2017

Result

Nottingham Forest 0-1 Sunderland

Championship · Saturday 30 December 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Nottingham Forest · Sunderland · Championship predictions

Nottingham Forest 0-1 Sunderland: match report

Nottingham Forest lost to Sunderland 0-1 in the Championship on Saturday 30 December 2017. The half-time score was 0-1.

The only goal came from Aiden McGeady of Sunderland in the 40th minute.

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards; Sunderland received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 13th on 31 points from 24 and Sunderland 22nd on 19 points from 24. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 17th with 53 points, and Sunderland 24th with 37.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Sunderland in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Aiden McGeady of Sunderland (7.8), ahead of Ben Osborn (7.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Nottingham Forest win, 1 draw and 0 for Sunderland.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 40'Goal · Aiden McGeadySunderland · 0-1
  • 82'Yellow card · Armand TraoreNottingham Forest
  • 82'Yellow card · Armand TraoreNottingham Forest

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Nottingham Forest 1, draws 1, Sunderland 0.

Team news

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

Jordan Smith, Eric Lichaj, Michael Mancienne, Ben Osborn, Joe Worrall, Barrie McKay, Ben Brereton Díaz, Kieran Dowell, David Vaughan, Andreas Bouchalakis, Daryl Murphy

Sunderland line-up (3-4-2-1)

Robbin Ruiter, John O'Shea, Tyias Browning, Marc Wilson, Adam Matthews, Donald Love, Darron Gibson, George Honeyman, Callum McManaman, Aiden McGeady, Josh Maja