Wigan Athletic 1-0 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Championship · Sunday 20 October 2019

Result

Wigan Athletic 1-0 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Sunday 20 October 2019, 13:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Wigan Athletic 1-0 Nottingham Forest: match report

Wigan Athletic defeated Nottingham Forest 1-0 in the Championship on Sunday 20 October 2019. The half-time score was 1-0.

The only goal came from Jamal Lowe of Wigan Athletic in the 35th minute.

Discipline: Wigan Athletic received 3 yellow cards; Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Wigan Athletic were 20th on 11 points from 11 and Nottingham Forest 4th on 22 points from 11. Wigan Athletic went on to finish that season 13th with 59 points, and Nottingham Forest 7th with 70.

Wigan Athletic lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Nottingham Forest in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Joe Williams of Wigan Athletic (7.8), level with Nathan Byrne (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Wigan Athletic wins, 3 draws and 3 for Nottingham Forest.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 35'Goal · Jamal LoweWigan Athletic · 1-0
  • 41'Yellow card · Lewis MacLeodWigan Athletic
  • 51'Yellow card · Nathan ByrneWigan Athletic
  • 82'Yellow card · Michael JacobsWigan Athletic
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Yuri RibeiroNottingham Forest

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Wigan Athletic 2, draws 3, Nottingham Forest 3.

Team news

Wigan Athletic line-up (4-2-3-1)

Txiki Acaz, Nathan Byrne, Chey Dunkley, Charlie Mulgrew, Antonee Robinson, Lewis MacLeod, Joe Williams, Jamal Lowe, Gavin Massey, Michael Jacobs, Kieffer Moore

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

Brice Samba, Matty Cash, Tobias Figueiredo, Joe Worrall, Jack Robinson, Yuri Ribeiro, John Bostock, Ben Watson, Joe Lolley, Rafa Mir, Sammy Ameobi