Nottingham Forest 2-0 Rotherham United: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 31 January 2017
Result
Nottingham Forest 2-0 Rotherham United
Championship · Tuesday 31 January 2017, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-0
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Nottingham Forest 2-0 Rotherham United: match report
Nottingham Forest beat Rotherham United 2-0 in the Championship on Tuesday 31 January 2017. The half-time score was 0-0.
Britt Assombalonga opened the scoring in the 50th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Britt Assombalonga (50', penalty) and Britt Assombalonga (71'). Rotherham United did not score.
Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card; Rotherham United received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 19th on 30 points from 28 and Rotherham United 24th on 16 points from 28. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 21st with 51 points, and Rotherham United 24th with 23.
Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-4-2 and Rotherham United in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Britt Assombalonga of Nottingham Forest (8.7), ahead of Jack Hobbs (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Nottingham Forest wins, 3 draws and 0 for Rotherham United.
Key events
- 26'Yellow card · Jon Taylor
- 36'Yellow card · Richard Smallwood
- 50'Penalty goal · Britt Assombalonga
- 60'Yellow card · Will Vaulks
- 71'Goal · Britt Assombalonga
- 83'Yellow card · Joe Mattock
- 90+1'Yellow card · Jack Hobbs
Head-to-head
Team news
Nottingham Forest line-up (4-4-2)
Stephen Henderson, Eric Lichaj, Jack Hobbs, Danny Fox, Dani Pinillos, Jamie Ward, Michael Mancienne, David Vaughan, Ben Osborn, Ben Brereton Díaz, Britt Assombalonga
Rotherham United line-up (4-1-4-1)
Richard O'Donnell, Stephen Kelly, Semi Ajayi, Richard Wood, Joe Mattock, Richard Smallwood, A. Forde, Tom Adeyemi, Will Vaulks, Jon Taylor, Daniel Ward