Nottingham Forest 3-2 Bristol City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 11 April 2009

Result

Nottingham Forest 3-2 Bristol City

Championship · Saturday 11 April 2009, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Nottingham Forest 3-2 Bristol City: match report

Nottingham Forest won against Bristol City 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 11 April 2009. The half-time score was 1-1.

Ivan Sproule opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Robert Earnshaw (32'), Joe Garner (83') and Dexter Blackstock (90'). Bristol City scored through Ivan Sproule (13') and Bamberdele Adebola (78').

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards; Bristol City received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 22nd on 42 points from 41 and Bristol City 9th on 59 points from 41. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 19th with 53 points, and Bristol City 10th with 61.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Nottingham Forest wins, 1 draw and 0 for Bristol City.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Goal · Ivan SprouleBristol City · 0-1
  • 32'Goal · Robert EarnshawNottingham Forest · 1-1
  • 46'Yellow card · James McAllisterBristol City
  • 63'Yellow card · Ivan SprouleBristol City
  • 78'Goal · Bamberdele AdebolaBristol City · 1-2
  • 82'Second yellow · James McAllisterBristol City
  • 83'Goal · Joe GarnerNottingham Forest · 2-2
  • 86'Yellow card · Bradley OrrBristol City
  • 90'Yellow card · Dexter BlackstockNottingham Forest
  • 90'Goal · Dexter BlackstockNottingham Forest · 3-2
  • 90'Yellow card · Joe GarnerNottingham Forest

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Nottingham Forest 0, draws 1, Bristol City 0.