Birmingham City 2-0 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Championship · Saturday 14 February 2009

Result

Birmingham City 2-0 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Saturday 14 February 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Birmingham City 2-0 Nottingham Forest: match report

Birmingham City beat Nottingham Forest 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 14 February 2009. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Marcus Bent opened the scoring in the 62nd minute. Birmingham City's goals came from Marcus Bent (62') and Keith Fahey (75'). Nottingham Forest did not score.

Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 3rd on 57 points from 31 and Nottingham Forest 18th on 34 points from 31. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 4th with 83 points, and Nottingham Forest 19th with 53.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Birmingham City wins, 1 draw and 0 for Nottingham Forest.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 58'Yellow card · James PerchNottingham Forest
  • 62'Goal · Marcus BentBirmingham City · 1-0
  • 75'Goal · Keith FaheyBirmingham City · 2-0
  • 87'Yellow card · Lee BowyerBirmingham City

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Birmingham City 0, draws 1, Nottingham Forest 0.

Team news

Birmingham City expected line-up (4-4-2)

Maik Taylor, Stephen Kelly, David Murphy, Liam Ridgewell, Fabrice Muamba, Sebastian Larsson, Mikael Forssell, James McFadden, Mauro Zárate, Radhi Jaïdi