Nottingham Forest 1-0 Wigan Athletic: result and report

Championship · Sunday 29 December 2019

Result

Nottingham Forest 1-0 Wigan Athletic

Championship · Sunday 29 December 2019, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Nottingham Forest 1-0 Wigan Athletic: match report

Nottingham Forest beat Wigan Athletic 1-0 in the Championship on Sunday 29 December 2019. The half-time score was 0-0.

The only goal came from Tobias Figueiredo of Nottingham Forest in the 60th minute.

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card; Wigan Athletic received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 7th on 37 points from 23 and Wigan Athletic 24th on 20 points from 24. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 7th with 70 points, and Wigan Athletic 13th with 59.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Wigan Athletic in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Matty Cash of Nottingham Forest (8.8), ahead of Brice Samba (8.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Nottingham Forest wins, 3 draws and 3 for Wigan Athletic.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 57'Yellow card · Nathan ByrneWigan Athletic
  • 57'Yellow card · Alfa SemedoNottingham Forest
  • 60'Goal · Tobias FigueiredoNottingham Forest · 1-0
  • 71'Yellow card · C. KipréWigan Athletic
  • 79'Missed penalty · Josh WindassWigan Athletic
  • 81'Yellow card · Kal NaismithWigan Athletic

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Nottingham Forest 3, draws 3, Wigan Athletic 3.

Team news

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

Brice Samba, Matty Cash, Tobias Figueiredo, Joe Worrall, Chema Rodríguez, Ryan Yates, Ben Watson, Sammy Ameobi, Alfa Semedo, João Carvalho, Lewis Grabban

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

Jamie Jones, Nathan Byrne, Cédric Kipré, Kal Naismith, Antonee Robinson, Lee Evans, Joe Williams, Sam Morsy, Jamal Lowe, Josh Windass, Gavin Massey