Nottingham Forest 1-2 Cardiff City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 22 October 2016
Result
Nottingham Forest 1-2 Cardiff City
Championship · Saturday 22 October 2016, 16:30 UTC · half-time 0-2
Nottingham Forest 1-2 Cardiff City: match report
Nottingham Forest lost to Cardiff City 1-2 in the Championship on Saturday 22 October 2016. The half-time score was 0-2.
A. Gunnarsson opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Nottingham Forest's goal came from Nicolás Frutos (90+1', penalty). Cardiff City scored through A. Gunnarsson (28') and J. Ralls (39').
Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 18th on 15 points from 13 and Cardiff City 21st on 14 points from 13. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 21st with 51 points, and Cardiff City 11th with 64.
Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Cardiff City in a 4-5-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Henri Lansbury of Nottingham Forest (8.1), ahead of Sean Morrison (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Nottingham Forest wins, 1 draw and 6 for Cardiff City.
Key events
- 28'Goal · A. Gunnarsson
- 39'Goal · J. Ralls
- 58'Red card · Thomas Lam
- 76'Yellow card · Nicolás Frutos
- 86'Yellow card · Kieran Richardson
- 86'Yellow card · Kieran Richardson
- 90+1'Penalty goal · Nicolás Frutos
Head-to-head
Team news
Nottingham Forest line-up (4-2-3-1)
Vladimir Stojkovic, Eric Lichaj, Damien Perquis, Thomas Lam, Armand Traore, Pajtim Kasami, Chris Cohen, Nicolao Dumitru, Henri Lansbury, Ben Osborn, Apostolos Vellios
Cardiff City line-up (4-5-1)
Ben Amos, Matthew Connolly, Sean Morrison, Sol Bamba, Joe Bennett, Anthony Pilkington, Peter Whittingham, Aron Gunnarsson, Joe Ralls, Junior Hoilett, Rickie Lambert