Nottingham Forest 1-1 Reading: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 20 February 2018

Result

Nottingham Forest 1-1 Reading

Championship · Tuesday 20 February 2018, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Nottingham Forest 1-1 Reading: match report

Nottingham Forest drew with Reading 1-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 20 February 2018. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Omar Richards opened the scoring in the 35th minute. Nottingham Forest's goal came from Lee Tomlin (85'). Reading scored through Omar Richards (35').

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 3 yellow cards; Reading received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 17th on 36 points from 32 and Reading 18th on 32 points from 31. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 17th with 53 points, and Reading 20th with 44.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Reading in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Lee Tomlin of Nottingham Forest (8.4), ahead of Joe Lolley (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Nottingham Forest wins, 1 draw and 5 for Reading.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 35'Goal · Omar RichardsReading · 0-1
  • 37'Yellow card · Liam KellyReading
  • 62'Yellow card · Ben OsbornNottingham Forest
  • 74'Yellow card · Lee TomlinNottingham Forest
  • 76'Yellow card · Omar RichardsReading
  • 77'Yellow card · Tobias FigueiredoNottingham Forest
  • 78'Yellow card · Chris GunterReading
  • 85'Goal · Lee TomlinNottingham Forest · 1-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Nottingham Forest 4, draws 1, Reading 5.

Team news

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

Costel Pantilimon, Tobias Figueiredo, Ben Osborn, Danny Fox, Tendayi Darikwa, Lee Tomlin, Jack Colback, Kieran Dowell, Joe Lolley, Ben Watson, Ben Brereton Díaz

Reading line-up (4-2-3-1)

Vito Mannone, Chris Gunter, Liam Moore, Tiago Ilori, Omar Richards, Joey van den Berg, Sone Aluko, Modou Barrow, Leandro Bacuna, Liam Kelly, Chris Martin