Nottingham Forest 0-1 Aston Villa: result and report

Championship · Saturday 13 January 2018

Result

Nottingham Forest 0-1 Aston Villa

Championship · Saturday 13 January 2018, 17:30 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Nottingham Forest 0-1 Aston Villa: match report

Nottingham Forest lost to Aston Villa 0-1 in the Championship on Saturday 13 January 2018. The half-time score was 0-1.

The only goal came from Scott Hogan of Aston Villa in the 18th minute.

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

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 15th on 32 points from 26 and Aston Villa 5th on 44 points from 26. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 17th with 53 points, and Aston Villa 3rd with 90.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Aston Villa in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Robert Snodgrass of Aston Villa (8.8), ahead of John Terry (7.5).

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Goal · Scott HoganAston Villa · 0-1
  • 61'Yellow card · Eric LichajNottingham Forest
  • 63'Yellow card · Matty CashNottingham Forest
  • 71'Yellow card · Ahmed El-MohamadyAston Villa
  • 89'Yellow card · John TerryAston Villa

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Nottingham Forest 1, draws 1, Aston Villa 1.

Team news

Nottingham Forest line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jordan Smith, Eric Lichaj, Michael Mancienne, Matthew Mills, Armand Traore, Ben Osborn, Matty Cash, Zach Clough, Kieran Dowell, David Vaughan, Ben Brereton Díaz

Aston Villa line-up (4-1-4-1)

Sam Johnstone, James Chester, Alan Hutton, John Terry, Ahmed Eissa El Mohamady Abdel Fattah, Glenn Whelan, Robert Snodgrass, Jack Grealish, C. Hourihane, Albert Adomah, Scott Hogan