Nottingham Forest 0-1 Blackburn Rovers: result and report

Championship · Friday 14 April 2017

Result

Nottingham Forest 0-1 Blackburn Rovers

Championship · Friday 14 April 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Nottingham Forest · Blackburn Rovers · Championship predictions

Nottingham Forest 0-1 Blackburn Rovers: match report

Nottingham Forest were beaten by Blackburn Rovers 0-1 in the Championship on Friday 14 April 2017. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Tommie Hoban of Blackburn Rovers in the 78th minute.

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 3 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 20th on 45 points from 41 and Blackburn Rovers 23rd on 40 points from 41. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 21st with 51 points, and Blackburn Rovers 22nd with 51.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Tommie Hoban of Blackburn Rovers (8.3), ahead of Elliott Ward (7.7).

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Yellow card · Armand TraoreNottingham Forest
  • 53'Yellow card · E. WardBlackburn Rovers
  • 65'Yellow card · Derrick WilliamsBlackburn Rovers
  • 74'Yellow card · Elliott BennettBlackburn Rovers
  • 77'Yellow card · Ben OsbornNottingham Forest
  • 78'Goal · Tommie HobanBlackburn Rovers · 0-1
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Chris CohenNottingham Forest
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Lucas JoãoBlackburn Rovers

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Nottingham Forest 2, draws 4, Blackburn Rovers 3.

Team news

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

Jordan Smith, Joe Worrall, Matthew Mills, Armand Traore, Eric Lichaj, Chris Cohen, David Vaughan, Ben Osborn, Jamie Ward, Zach Clough, Ben Brereton Díaz

Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-4-1-1)

David Raya, Ryan Nyambe, Elliott Ward, Tommie Hoban, Derrick Williams, Connor Mahoney, Jason Lowe, Hope Akpan, Liam Feeney, Elliott Bennett, Sam Gallagher