Cardiff City 3-0 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Championship · Saturday 13 April 2013

Result

Cardiff City 3-0 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Saturday 13 April 2013, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Cardiff City · Nottingham Forest · Championship predictions

Cardiff City 3-0 Nottingham Forest: match report

Cardiff City won against Nottingham Forest 3-0 in the Championship on Saturday 13 April 2013. The half-time score was 1-0.

Heidar Helguson opened the scoring in the 26th minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Heidar Helguson (26'), Rudy Gestede (60') and Rudy Gestede (66'). Nottingham Forest did not score.

Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Nottingham Forest received 5 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 1st on 80 points from 41 and Nottingham Forest 5th on 63 points from 41. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 1st with 87 points, and Nottingham Forest 8th with 67.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Cardiff City wins, 2 draws and 3 for Nottingham Forest.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 24'Yellow card · Greg HalfordNottingham Forest
  • 26'Goal · Heidar HelgusonCardiff City · 1-0
  • 36'Yellow card · James FreitasNottingham Forest
  • 42'Red card · Darius HendersonNottingham Forest
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Jordon MutchCardiff City
  • 58'Yellow card · Dexter BlackstockNottingham Forest
  • 58'Yellow card · A. GuédiouraNottingham Forest
  • 60'Goal · Rudy GestedeCardiff City · 2-0
  • 66'Goal · Rudy GestedeCardiff City · 3-0
  • 85'Yellow card · Guy MoussiNottingham Forest

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Cardiff City 4, draws 2, Nottingham Forest 3.

Team news

Cardiff City expected line-up (4-3-3)

Andrew Taylor, Matthew Connolly, Ben Turner, Leon Barnett, Aron Gunnarsson, Craig Conway, Txiki Acaz, Craig Bellamy, Fraizer Campbell

Nottingham Forest expected line-up

Danny Collins, Elliott Ward, Greg Halford, Chris Cohen, Andy Reid, Adlène Guédioura, Radoslaw Majewski, Henri Lansbury, Dexter Blackstock, Patrick McCarthy, Lee Camp