Nottingham Forest 3-0 Bolton Wanderers: result and report

Championship · Saturday 16 January 2016

Result

Nottingham Forest 3-0 Bolton Wanderers

Championship · Saturday 16 January 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Nottingham Forest · Bolton Wanderers · Championship predictions

Nottingham Forest 3-0 Bolton Wanderers: match report

Nottingham Forest won against Bolton Wanderers 3-0 in the Championship on Saturday 16 January 2016. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Nélson Oliveira opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Nélson Oliveira (12', penalty), Oliver Burke (16') and Jamie Ward (83'). Bolton Wanderers did not score.

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received no yellow cards; Bolton Wanderers received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 14th on 32 points from 26 and Bolton Wanderers 24th on 17 points from 26. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 16th with 55 points, and Bolton Wanderers 24th with 30.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-3-3 and Bolton Wanderers in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Nottingham Forest wins, 5 draws and 0 for Bolton Wanderers.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Red card · Ben AmosBolton Wanderers
  • 12'Penalty goal · Nélson OliveiraNottingham Forest · 1-0
  • 16'Goal · Oliver BurkeNottingham Forest · 2-0
  • 58'Yellow card · Dean MoxeyBolton Wanderers
  • 83'Goal · Jamie WardNottingham Forest · 3-0

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Nottingham Forest 2, draws 5, Bolton Wanderers 0.

Team news

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Nottingham Forest expected line-up (4-3-3)

Karl Darlow, Eric Lichaj, Danny Fox, Matthew Mills, Kelvin Wilson, Henri Lansbury, Michael Mancienne, David Vaughan, Michail Antonio

Bolton Wanderers expected line-up (4-2-3-1)

Andy Lonergan, Dorian Dervite, Matthew Mills, Tim Ream, Neil Danns, Liam Feeney, Mark Davies, Darren Pratley, Chung-yong Lee, Jermaine Beckford