Aston Villa 2-1 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Aston Villa 2-1 Nottingham Forest

Premier League · Saturday 5 April 2025, 16:30 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Aston Villa defeated Nottingham Forest 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 5 April 2025. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Morgan Rogers opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Morgan Rogers (13') and Donyell Malen (15'). Nottingham Forest scored through Jota Silva (57').

Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 7th on 48 points from 30 and Nottingham Forest 3rd on 57 points from 30. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 6th with 66 points, and Nottingham Forest 7th with 65.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Nottingham Forest in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Youri Tielemans of Aston Villa (7.9), ahead of Neco Williams (7.8).

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