Stoke City 2-0 Nottingham Forest: result and report
Championship · Saturday 2 March 2019
Result
Stoke City 2-0 Nottingham Forest
Championship · Saturday 2 March 2019, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Stoke City 2-0 Nottingham Forest: match report
Stoke City won against Nottingham Forest 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 2 March 2019. The half-time score was 1-0.
Peter Etebo opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Stoke City's goals came from Peter Etebo (15') and Benik Afobe (74'). Nottingham Forest did not score.
Discipline: Stoke City received 2 yellow cards; Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Stoke City were 18th on 41 points from 34 and Nottingham Forest 9th on 50 points from 34. Stoke City went on to finish that season 17th with 55 points, and Nottingham Forest 9th with 66.
Stoke City lined up in a 4-5-1 and Nottingham Forest in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Tom Ince of Stoke City (7.8), level with Danny Batth (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Stoke City wins, 1 draw and 0 for Nottingham Forest.
Key events
- 15'Goal · Peter Etebo
- 61'Yellow card · Jack Robinson
- 74'Goal · Benik Afobe
- 85'Yellow card · Y. Benalouane
- 87'Yellow card · James McClean
- 90+4'Yellow card · Charlie Adam
Head-to-head
Team news
Stoke City line-up (4-5-1)
Jack Butland, Tom Edwards, Ryan Shawcross, Danny Batth, Bruno Martins Indi, Tom Ince, Sam Clucas, Joe Allen, Peter Etebo, Bojan Krkic, Benik Afobe
Nottingham Forest line-up (4-1-4-1)
Costel Pantilimon, Tendayi Darikwa, Alexander Milošević, Yohan Benalouane, Jack Robinson, Ben Watson, Joe Lolley, Ryan Yates, Jack Colback, Ben Osborn, Daryl Murphy