Nottingham Forest 2-1 Cardiff City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 19 February 2011
Result
Nottingham Forest 2-1 Cardiff City
Championship · Saturday 19 February 2011, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Nottingham Forest 2-1 Cardiff City: match report
Nottingham Forest beat Cardiff City 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 19 February 2011. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Wes Morgan opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Wes Morgan (32') and Robert Earnshaw (67'). Cardiff City scored through Peter Whittingham (65', penalty).
Discipline: Nottingham Forest received no yellow cards; Cardiff City received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 4th on 53 points from 30 and Cardiff City 2nd on 55 points from 31. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 6th with 76 points, and Cardiff City 4th with 81.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Nottingham Forest win, 2 draws and 2 for Cardiff City.
Going into the match Nottingham Forest's last five read L-D-W-W-W and Cardiff City's D-W-W-D-W.
Key events
- 32'Goal · Wes Morgan
- 57'Yellow card · D. Keinan
- 61'Yellow card · M. Hudson
- 65'Penalty goal · Peter Whittingham
- 67'Goal · Robert Earnshaw
- 75'Yellow card · Jay Bothroyd
Head-to-head
Team news
Nottingham Forest line-up
Paul Konchesky, Luke Chambers, Wes Morgan, Chris Gunter, Paul Anderson, Lewis McGugan, Chris Cohen, Paul McKenna, Robert Earnshaw, Marcus Tudgay, Lee Camp
Cardiff City line-up
Tom Heaton, Kevin McNaughton, Dekel Keinan, Paul Quinn, Peter Whittingham, C. Burke, Oluwaseyi Olofinjana, Jon Parkin, Craig Bellamy, Mark Hudson, Jay Bothroyd