Nottingham Forest 2-1 Portsmouth: result and report

Championship · Saturday 15 January 2011

Result

Nottingham Forest 2-1 Portsmouth

Championship · Saturday 15 January 2011, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Nottingham Forest · Portsmouth · Championship predictions

Nottingham Forest 2-1 Portsmouth: match report

Nottingham Forest defeated Portsmouth 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 15 January 2011. The half-time score was 0-1.

Nwankwo Kanu opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from an own goal by I. Sonko (87') and Marcus Tudgay (90+4'). Portsmouth scored through Nwankwo Kanu (25').

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

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 7th on 37 points from 23 and Portsmouth 18th on 28 points from 24. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 6th with 76 points, and Portsmouth 16th with 56.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Nottingham Forest wins, 0 draws and 1 for Portsmouth.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 25'Goal · Nwankwo KanuPortsmouth · 0-1
  • 42'Yellow card · Hayden MullinsPortsmouth
  • 54'Yellow card · J. LynchNottingham Forest
  • 77'Yellow card · Aaron MokoenaPortsmouth
  • 87'Own goal · I. SonkoNottingham Forest · 1-1
  • 90'Yellow card · Thomas KilbeyPortsmouth
  • 90+4'Goal · Marcus TudgayNottingham Forest · 2-1

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Nottingham Forest 0, draws 0, Portsmouth 1.

Team news

Nottingham Forest line-up

Luke Chambers, Wes Morgan, Chris Gunter, Joel Lynch, Paul Anderson, Chris Cohen, Guy Moussi, Radoslaw Majewski, Robert Earnshaw, Marcus Tudgay, Lee Camp

Portsmouth line-up

Jamie Ashdown, Carl Dickinson, Aaron Mokoena, Ritchie De Laet, Joel Ward, Ibrahima Sonko, Liam Lawrence, David Nugent, John Utaka, Nwankwo Kanu, Hayden Mullins