Huddersfield Town 2-1 Nottingham Forest: result and report
Championship · Monday 26 December 2016
Result
Huddersfield Town 2-1 Nottingham Forest
Championship · Monday 26 December 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
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Huddersfield Town 2-1 Nottingham Forest: match report
Huddersfield Town defeated Nottingham Forest 2-1 in the Championship on Monday 26 December 2016. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Hildeberto opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Huddersfield Town's goals came from Kasey Palmer (53') and an own goal by Michael Mancienne (59'). Nottingham Forest scored through Hildeberto (25').
Discipline: Huddersfield Town received 1 yellow card; Nottingham Forest received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Huddersfield Town were 7th on 35 points from 22 and Nottingham Forest 16th on 26 points from 22. Huddersfield Town went on to finish that season 5th with 80 points, and Nottingham Forest 21st with 51.
Huddersfield Town lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Nottingham Forest in a 3-5-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Kasey Palmer of Huddersfield Town (7.8), ahead of Jonathan Hogg (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Huddersfield Town wins, 2 draws and 3 for Nottingham Forest.
Key events
- 25'Goal · Hildeberto
- 45'Yellow card · Andreas Hagen
- 45+1'Yellow card · Eric Lichaj
- 52'Yellow card · Michael Mancienne
- 53'Goal · Kasey Palmer
- 59'Own goal · Michael Mancienne
- 83'Yellow card · Matthew Mills
- 86'Yellow card · Thomas Lam
- 89'Second yellow · Michael Mancienne
Head-to-head
Team news
Huddersfield Town line-up (4-2-3-1)
Joel Coleman, Tommy Smith, Michael Hefele, Christopher Schindler, Tareiq Holmes-Dennis, Jonathan Hogg, Aaron Mooy, Elias Kachunga, Kasey Palmer, Rajiv van La Parra, Nahki Wells
Nottingham Forest line-up (3-5-1-1)
Vladimir Stojkovic, Matthew Mills, Jack Hobbs, Joe Worrall, Matty Cash, Ben Osborn, Michael Mancienne, David Vaughan, Eric Lichaj, Hildeberto Pereira, Nicklas Bendtner