Aston Villa 5-5 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Championship · Wednesday 28 November 2018

Result

Aston Villa 5-5 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Wednesday 28 November 2018, 19:45 UTC · half-time 3-3

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Aston Villa 5-5 Nottingham Forest: match report

Aston Villa drew with Nottingham Forest 5-5 in the Championship on Wednesday 28 November 2018. It was 3-3 at half-time.

Lewis Grabban opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Tammy Abraham (11'), Tammy Abraham (14'), Tammy Abraham (36', penalty), Tammy Abraham (71') and Anwar El Ghazi (75'). Nottingham Forest scored through Lewis Grabban (3'), João Carvalho (6'), Matty Cash (22'), Joe Lolley (51') and Lewis Grabban (82').

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

Going into the game Aston Villa were 9th on 27 points from 18 and Nottingham Forest 7th on 30 points from 18. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 5th with 82 points, and Nottingham Forest 9th with 66.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-3-3 and Nottingham Forest in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Tammy Abraham of Aston Villa (10.0), ahead of Joe Lolley (8.7).

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Lewis GrabbanNottingham Forest · 0-1
  • 6'Goal · João CarvalhoNottingham Forest · 0-2
  • 11'Goal · Tammy AbrahamAston Villa · 1-2
  • 14'Goal · Tammy AbrahamAston Villa · 2-2
  • 20'Yellow card · Yannick BolasieAston Villa
  • 22'Goal · Matty CashNottingham Forest · 2-3
  • 36'Penalty goal · Tammy AbrahamAston Villa · 3-3
  • 51'Goal · Joe LolleyNottingham Forest · 3-4
  • 65'Yellow card · Claudio YacobNottingham Forest
  • 68'Red card · Tobias FigueiredoNottingham Forest
  • 69'Yellow card · Tendayi DarikwaNottingham Forest
  • 69'Yellow card · Alan HuttonAston Villa
  • 71'Goal · Tammy AbrahamAston Villa · 4-4
  • 75'Goal · Anwar El GhaziAston Villa · 5-4
  • 78'Yellow card · Jack ColbackNottingham Forest
  • 82'Goal · Lewis GrabbanNottingham Forest · 5-5
  • 87'Yellow card · Anwar El GhaziAston Villa

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Aston Villa 2, draws 1, Nottingham Forest 1.

Team news

Aston Villa line-up (4-3-3)

Ørjan Nyland, Alan Hutton, Axel Tuanzebe, James Chester, Neil Taylor, John McGinn, C. Hourihane, Jack Grealish, Yannick Bolasie, Tammy Abraham, Jonathan Kodjia

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

Costel Pantilimon, Tendayi Darikwa, Michael Dawson, Tobias Figueiredo, Jack Robinson, Jack Colback, Claudio Yacob, Joe Lolley, João Carvalho, Matty Cash, Lewis Grabban