Nottingham Forest 0-1 Cardiff City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 30 November 2019

Result

Nottingham Forest 0-1 Cardiff City

Championship · Saturday 30 November 2019, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Nottingham Forest · Cardiff City · Championship predictions

Nottingham Forest 0-1 Cardiff City: match report

Nottingham Forest were beaten by Cardiff City 0-1 in the Championship on Saturday 30 November 2019. It was 0-1 at half-time.

The only goal came from Nathaniel Mendez-Laing of Cardiff City in the 14th minute.

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received no yellow cards; Cardiff City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 4th on 32 points from 17 and Cardiff City 11th on 25 points from 18. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 7th with 70 points, and Cardiff City 5th with 76.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Cardiff City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Joe Lolley of Nottingham Forest (8.4), ahead of Joe Worrall (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Nottingham Forest win, 1 draw and 8 for Cardiff City.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Goal · Nathaniel Mendez-LaingCardiff City · 0-1
  • 67'Yellow card · Gary MadineCardiff City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Nottingham Forest 1, draws 1, Cardiff City 8.

Team news

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

Brice Samba, Matty Cash, Tobias Figueiredo, Joe Worrall, Jack Robinson, Ben Watson, Tiago Silva, Joe Lolley, João Carvalho, Sammy Ameobi, Lewis Grabban

Cardiff City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Neil Etheridge, Lee Peltier, Aden Flint, Curtis Nelson, Joe Bennett, Leandro Bacuna, Marlon Pack, Nathaniel Méndez-Laing, Lee Tomlin, Junior Hoilett, Gary Madine