Nottingham Forest 3-2 Wigan Athletic: result and report

Championship · Saturday 20 August 2016

Result

Nottingham Forest 3-2 Wigan Athletic

Championship · Saturday 20 August 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Nottingham Forest · Wigan Athletic · Championship predictions

Nottingham Forest 3-2 Wigan Athletic: match report

Nottingham Forest won against Wigan Athletic 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 20 August 2016. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Britt Assombalonga opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Britt Assombalonga (6'), Oliver Burke (53'), Oliver Burke (78') and Thomas Lam (90+3'). Wigan Athletic scored through Michael Jacobs (11'), Will Grigg (65') and Will Grigg (86').

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 4 yellow cards; Wigan Athletic received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 20th on 3 points from 3 and Wigan Athletic 10th on 4 points from 3. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 21st with 51 points, and Wigan Athletic 23rd with 42.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-3-3 and Wigan Athletic in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Oliver Burke of Nottingham Forest (8.9), ahead of Will Grigg (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Nottingham Forest win, 1 draw and 2 for Wigan Athletic.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Goal · Britt AssombalongaNottingham Forest · 1-0
  • 9'Yellow card · Matty CashNottingham Forest
  • 11'Goal · Michael JacobsWigan Athletic · 1-1
  • 53'Goal · Oliver BurkeNottingham Forest · 2-1
  • 56'Yellow card · Yanic WildschutWigan Athletic
  • 58'Yellow card · Chris CohenNottingham Forest
  • 61'Missed penalty · Apostolos VelliosNottingham Forest
  • 65'Goal · Will GriggWigan Athletic · 2-2
  • 68'Yellow card · Thomas LamNottingham Forest
  • 72'Yellow card · Craig MorganWigan Athletic
  • 75'Yellow card · Michael JacobsWigan Athletic
  • 78'Goal · Oliver BurkeNottingham Forest · 3-2
  • 86'Goal · Will GriggWigan Athletic · 3-3
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Will GriggWigan Athletic
  • 90+3'Goal · Thomas LamNottingham Forest · 4-3
  • 90+7'Yellow card · Stephen HendersonNottingham Forest

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Nottingham Forest 1, draws 1, Wigan Athletic 2.

Team news

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

Stephen Henderson, Hildeberto Pereira, Michael Mancienne, Thomas Lam, Danny Fox, Pajtim Kasami, Chris Cohen, Matty Cash, Oliver Burke, Britt Assombalonga, Ben Osborn

Wigan Athletic line-up (3-4-3)

Ádám Bogdán, Craig Morgan, Dan Burn, Stephen Warnock, Y. Wildschut, Shaun MacDonald, Max Power, Luke Garbutt, Alex Gilbey, Will Grigg, Michael Jacobs