Stoke City 1-1 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 29 December 2020

Result

Stoke City 1-1 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Tuesday 29 December 2020, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Stoke City 1-1 Nottingham Forest: match report

Stoke City drew with Nottingham Forest 1-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 29 December 2020. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Jordan Thompson opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Stoke City's goal came from Jordan Thompson (18'). Nottingham Forest scored through an own goal by James Chester (65').

Discipline: Stoke City received 1 yellow card; Nottingham Forest received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Stoke City were 7th on 34 points from 21 and Nottingham Forest 22nd on 18 points from 21. Stoke City went on to finish that season 14th with 60 points, and Nottingham Forest 17th with 52.

Stoke City lined up in a 3-5-2 and Nottingham Forest in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jordan Thompson of Stoke City (7.7), ahead of Tommy Smith (7.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Stoke City wins, 1 draw and 1 for Nottingham Forest.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Goal · Jordan ThompsonStoke City · 1-0
  • 65'Own goal · James ChesterNottingham Forest · 1-1
  • 81'Yellow card · Jacob BrownStoke City

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Stoke City 2, draws 1, Nottingham Forest 1.

Team news

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Stoke City line-up (3-5-2)

Josef Bursik, Nathan Collins, Harry James Souttar, James Chester, Tommy Smith, Jordan Thompson, Nick Powell, Joe Allen, James McClean, Jacob Brown, Sam Vokes

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

Brice Samba, Cyrus Christie, Tobias Figueiredo, Joe Worrall, Yuri Ribeiro, Ryan Yates, Samba Sow, Anthony Knockaert, Cafú, Sammy Ameobi, Lewis Grabban