Nottingham Forest 4-2 Leeds United: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 1 January 2019
Result
Nottingham Forest 4-2 Leeds United
Championship · Tuesday 1 January 2019, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Nottingham Forest 4-2 Leeds United: match report
Nottingham Forest defeated Leeds United 4-2 in the Championship on Tuesday 1 January 2019. The half-time score was 1-0.
Jack Colback opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Jack Colback (5'), Jack Colback (69'), Daryl Murphy (72') and Ben Osborn (76'). Leeds United scored through Jack Clarke (52') and Ezgjan Alioski (64').
Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards; Leeds United received no yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 10th on 36 points from 25 and Leeds United 1st on 51 points from 25. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 9th with 66 points, and Leeds United 3rd with 86.
Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Leeds United in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jack Colback of Nottingham Forest (8.7), ahead of Ben Osborn (8.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Nottingham Forest wins, 5 draws and 2 for Leeds United.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Jack Colback
- 14'Yellow card · Jack Robinson
- 42'Red card · Kalvin Phillips
- 52'Goal · Jack Clarke
- 64'Goal · Ezgjan Alioski
- 69'Goal · Jack Colback
- 72'Goal · Daryl Murphy
- 76'Goal · Ben Osborn
- 81'Yellow card · Tendayi Darikwa
Head-to-head
Team news
Nottingham Forest line-up (4-2-3-1)
Costel Pantilimon, Tendayi Darikwa, Michael Hefele, Danny Fox, Jack Robinson, Claudio Yacob, Jack Colback, Matty Cash, João Carvalho, Joe Lolley, Daryl Murphy
Leeds United line-up (4-1-4-1)
Bailey Peacock-Farrell, Luke Ayling, Pontus Jansson, Kalvin Phillips, B. Douglas, Adam Forshaw, Jack Harrison, Pablo Hernández, Mateusz Klich, Ezgjan Alioski, Kemar Roofe