Nottingham Forest 2-0 Huddersfield Town: result and report

Championship · Saturday 8 April 2017

Result

Nottingham Forest 2-0 Huddersfield Town

Championship · Saturday 8 April 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Nottingham Forest · Huddersfield Town · Championship predictions

Nottingham Forest 2-0 Huddersfield Town: match report

Nottingham Forest won against Huddersfield Town 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 8 April 2017. The half-time score was 1-0.

Eric Lichaj opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Eric Lichaj (32') and Jamie Ward (57'). Huddersfield Town did not score.

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card; Huddersfield Town received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 20th on 42 points from 40 and Huddersfield Town 4th on 70 points from 39. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 21st with 51 points, and Huddersfield Town 5th with 80.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Huddersfield Town in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jamie Ward of Nottingham Forest (8.2), ahead of Chris Cohen (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Nottingham Forest wins, 2 draws and 4 for Huddersfield Town.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 31'Yellow card · Eric LichajNottingham Forest
  • 32'Goal · Eric LichajNottingham Forest · 1-0
  • 44'Yellow card · N. WellsHuddersfield Town
  • 57'Goal · Jamie WardNottingham Forest · 2-0
  • 78'Yellow card · Dean WhiteheadHuddersfield Town
  • 78'Yellow card · Dean WhiteheadHuddersfield Town

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Nottingham Forest 3, draws 2, Huddersfield Town 4.

Team news

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

Jordan Smith, Joe Worrall, Matthew Mills, Armand Traore, Eric Lichaj, David Vaughan, Chris Cohen, Ben Osborn, Zach Clough, Ben Brereton Díaz, Jamie Ward

Huddersfield Town line-up (4-2-3-1)

Danny Ward, Tommy Smith, Michael Hefele, Christopher Schindler, Tareiq Holmes-Dennis, Jonathan Hogg, Philip Billing, Elias Kachunga, Aaron Mooy, Rajiv van La Parra, Nahki Wells