Nottingham Forest 3-1 Southampton: result and report

Championship · Sunday 3 May 2009

Result

Nottingham Forest 3-1 Southampton

Championship · Sunday 3 May 2009, 12:15 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Nottingham Forest 3-1 Southampton: match report

Nottingham Forest won against Southampton 3-1 in the Championship on Sunday 3 May 2009. The half-time score was 0-1.

Bradley Wright-Phillips opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Joe Garner (73'), Luke Chambers (87') and Robert Earnshaw (90'). Southampton scored through Bradley Wright-Phillips (16').

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received no yellow cards; Southampton received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 20th on 50 points from 45 and Southampton 23rd on 45 points from 45. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 19th with 53 points, and Southampton 23rd with 45.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 16'Goal · Bradley Wright-PhillipsSouthampton · 0-1
  • 61'Yellow card · L. JamesSouthampton
  • 73'Goal · Joe GarnerNottingham Forest · 1-1
  • 87'Goal · Luke ChambersNottingham Forest · 2-1
  • 90'Goal · Robert EarnshawNottingham Forest · 3-1

Head-to-head

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

Team news

Southampton expected line-up

Antti Niemi, Claus Lundekvam, Danny Higginbotham, Paul Telfer, Anders Svensson, Fabrice Fernandes, David Prutton, Kevin Phillips, Rory Delap