Sunderland 0-1 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 12 September 2017

Result

Sunderland 0-1 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Tuesday 12 September 2017, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Sunderland 0-1 Nottingham Forest: match report

Sunderland were beaten by Nottingham Forest 0-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 12 September 2017. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Daryl Murphy of Nottingham Forest in the 86th minute.

Discipline: Sunderland received 1 yellow card; Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Sunderland were 20th on 5 points from 6 and Nottingham Forest 12th on 9 points from 6. Sunderland went on to finish that season 24th with 37 points, and Nottingham Forest 17th with 53.

Sunderland lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Nottingham Forest in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jonathan Williams of Sunderland (8.0), ahead of Matthew Mills (7.8).

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 48'Yellow card · L. CattermoleSunderland
  • 86'Goal · Daryl MurphyNottingham Forest · 0-1
  • 90+3'Yellow card · J. CummingsNottingham Forest

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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

Robbin Ruiter, Bryan Oviedo, Tyias Browning, Adam Matthews, Marc Wilson, Lee Cattermole, Jonathan Williams, Callum McManaman, Didier Ndong, George Honeyman, Lewis Grabban

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

Jordan Smith, Matthew Mills, Armand Traore, Tendayi Darikwa, Joe Worrall, Liam Bridcutt, Ben Osborn, Ben Brereton Díaz, Kieran Dowell, Andreas Bouchalakis, Daryl Murphy