Barnsley 2-0 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Championship · Saturday 21 November 2020

Result

Barnsley 2-0 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Saturday 21 November 2020, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Barnsley · Nottingham Forest · Championship predictions

Barnsley 2-0 Nottingham Forest: match report

Barnsley defeated Nottingham Forest 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 21 November 2020. The half-time score was 0-0.

Callum Styles opened the scoring in the 85th minute. Barnsley's goals came from Callum Styles (85') and Cauley Woodrow (88'). Nottingham Forest did not score.

Discipline: Barnsley received no yellow cards; Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Barnsley were 17th on 13 points from 11 and Nottingham Forest 20th on 12 points from 11. Barnsley went on to finish that season 6th with 79 points, and Nottingham Forest 17th with 52.

Barnsley lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Nottingham Forest in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Callum Styles of Barnsley (8.3), ahead of Cauley Woodrow (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Barnsley wins, 1 draw and 5 for Nottingham Forest.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 85'Goal · Callum StylesBarnsley · 1-0
  • 86'Yellow card · Brice SambaNottingham Forest
  • 88'Goal · Cauley WoodrowBarnsley · 2-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Barnsley 4, draws 1, Nottingham Forest 5.

Team news

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

Jack Walton, Michael Sollbauer, Michal Helik, Mads Andersen, Callum Brittain, Matty James, Alex Mowatt, Callum Styles, Dominik Frieser, Cauley Woodrow, Conor Mark Chaplin

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

Brice Samba, Cyrus Christie, Tobias Figueiredo, Scott McKenna, Yuri Ribeiro, Anthony Knockaert, Ryan Yates, Jack Colback, Joe Lolley, Miguel Ángel Guerrero, Lyle Taylor