Nottingham Forest 2-1 Leeds United: result and report
Championship · Sunday 29 December 2013
Result
Nottingham Forest 2-1 Leeds United
Championship · Sunday 29 December 2013, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Nottingham Forest 2-1 Leeds United: match report
Nottingham Forest beat Leeds United 2-1 in the Championship on Sunday 29 December 2013. The half-time score was 1-0.
Greg Halford opened the scoring in the 23rd minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Greg Halford (23') and Matt Derbyshire (84'). Leeds United scored through Ross McCormack (83').
Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card; Leeds United received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 5th on 36 points from 22 and Leeds United 6th on 35 points from 22. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 11th with 65 points, and Leeds United 15th with 57.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Nottingham Forest wins, 1 draw and 3 for Leeds United.
Going into the match Nottingham Forest's last five read W-D-D-W-D and Leeds United's D-D-W-D-W.
Key events
- 23'Goal · Greg Halford
- 23'Yellow card · Michael Brown
- 40'Yellow card · R. Austin
- 56'Yellow card · James Freitas
- 69'Yellow card · Luke Murphy
- 83'Goal · Ross McCormack
- 84'Goal · Matt Derbyshire
Head-to-head
Team news
Nottingham Forest expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Karl Darlow, Jack Hobbs, Eric Lichaj, Greg Halford, Andy Reid, Henri Lansbury, Chris Cohen, Jamie Mackie, Djamel Abdoun, Darius Henderson, Simon Cox
Leeds United expected line-up
Paddy Kenny, Lee Peltier, Rodolph Austin, Tom Lees, Jason Pearce, Stephen Warnock, Paul Green, Michael Tonge, Ross McCormack