Reading 2-0 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Reading 2-0 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Saturday 29 October 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Reading beat Nottingham Forest 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 29 October 2016. The half-time score was 1-0.

Garath McCleary opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Reading's goals came from Garath McCleary (10') and Chris Gunter (62'). Nottingham Forest did not score.

Discipline: Reading received 3 yellow cards; Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Reading were 8th on 22 points from 14 and Nottingham Forest 19th on 15 points from 14. Reading went on to finish that season 3rd with 90 points, and Nottingham Forest 21st with 51.

Reading lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Nottingham Forest in a 3-5-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ali Al-Habsi of Reading (8.5), ahead of Chris Gunter (8.1).

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

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