Aston Villa 2-2 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Aston Villa 2-2 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Sunday 11 September 2016, 12:15 UTC · half-time 0-0

Aston Villa · Nottingham Forest · Championship predictions

Aston Villa drew with Nottingham Forest 2-2 in the Championship on Sunday 11 September 2016. The half-time score was 0-0.

Apostolos Vellios opened the scoring in the 57th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Ross McCormack (72') and Rudy Gestede (74'). Nottingham Forest scored through Apostolos Vellios (57') and Nicolás Frutos (87').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 3 yellow cards; Nottingham Forest received 6 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 18th on 5 points from 5 and Nottingham Forest 11th on 9 points from 5. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 13th with 62 points, and Nottingham Forest 21st with 51.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-2 and Nottingham Forest in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Jordan Ayew of Aston Villa (9.8), ahead of Gary Gardner (7.7).

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