Nottingham Forest 4-3 Southampton: result and report

Premier League · Monday 8 May 2023

Result

Nottingham Forest 4-3 Southampton

Premier League · Monday 8 May 2023, 19:00 UTC · half-time 3-1

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Nottingham Forest 4-3 Southampton: match report

Nottingham Forest defeated Southampton 4-3 in the Premier League on Monday 8 May 2023. It was 3-1 at half-time.

Taiwo Awoniyi opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Taiwo Awoniyi (18'), Taiwo Awoniyi (21'), Morgan Gibbs-White (44', penalty) and Danilo (73'). Southampton scored through Carlos Alcaraz (25'), Lyanco (51') and James Ward-Prowse (90+6', penalty).

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

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 19th on 30 points from 34 and Southampton 20th on 24 points from 34. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 16th with 38 points, and Southampton 20th with 25.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-3-3 and Southampton in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to James Ward-Prowse of Southampton (8.6), ahead of Morgan Gibbs-White (8.4).

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Goal · Taiwo AwoniyiNottingham Forest · 1-0
  • 21'Goal · Taiwo AwoniyiNottingham Forest · 2-0
  • 25'Goal · Carlos AlcarazSouthampton · 2-1
  • 44'Penalty goal · Morgan Gibbs-WhiteNottingham Forest · 3-1
  • 51'Goal · LyancoSouthampton · 3-2
  • 73'Goal · DaniloNottingham Forest · 4-2
  • 78'Yellow card · Renan LodiNottingham Forest
  • 90+6'Penalty goal · James Ward-ProwseSouthampton · 4-3

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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

Keylor Navas, Serge Aurier, Felipe Augusto de Almeida Monteiro, Moussa Niakhaté, Renan Lodi, Ryan Yates, Orel Mangala, Danilo, Brennan Johnson, Taiwo Awoniyi, Morgan Gibbs-White

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

Alex Simon McCarthy, Kyle Walker-Peters, Jan Bednarek, Armel Bella-Kotchap, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, James Ward-Prowse, Roméo Lavia, Theo Walcott, Carlos Alcaraz, Stuart Armstrong, Ché Adams