Queens Park Rangers 2-5 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Championship · Saturday 24 February 2018

Result

Queens Park Rangers 2-5 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Saturday 24 February 2018, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Queens Park Rangers · Nottingham Forest · Championship predictions

Queens Park Rangers 2-5 Nottingham Forest: match report

Queens Park Rangers lost to Nottingham Forest 2-5 in the Championship on Saturday 24 February 2018. The half-time score was 0-1.

Lee Tomlin opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Queens Park Rangers's goals came from Massimo Luongo (68') and Matt Smith (78'). Nottingham Forest scored through Lee Tomlin (37'), Lee Tomlin (47'), Joe Lolley (51'), Matty Cash (76') and B. Brereton (90+1').

Discipline: Queens Park Rangers received 1 yellow card; Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Queens Park Rangers were 15th on 39 points from 33 and Nottingham Forest 17th on 37 points from 33. Queens Park Rangers went on to finish that season 16th with 56 points, and Nottingham Forest 17th with 53.

Queens Park Rangers lined up in a 3-5-1-1 and Nottingham Forest in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Matt Smith of Queens Park Rangers (8.6), ahead of Lee Tomlin (8.5).

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 35'Yellow card · Lee TomlinNottingham Forest
  • 37'Goal · Lee TomlinNottingham Forest · 0-1
  • 47'Goal · Lee TomlinNottingham Forest · 0-2
  • 51'Goal · Joe LolleyNottingham Forest · 0-3
  • 68'Goal · Massimo LuongoQueens Park Rangers · 1-3
  • 72'Yellow card · Costel PantilimonNottingham Forest
  • 76'Goal · Matty CashNottingham Forest · 1-4
  • 78'Goal · Matt SmithQueens Park Rangers · 2-4
  • 84'Yellow card · Josh ScowenQueens Park Rangers
  • 90+1'Goal · B. BreretonNottingham Forest · 2-5

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Queens Park Rangers 2, draws 4, Nottingham Forest 4.

Team news

Queens Park Rangers line-up (3-5-1-1)

Alex Smithies, Nedum Onuoha, Joel Lynch, Jack Robinson, Jake Bidwell, Luke Freeman, Josh Scowen, Massimo Luongo, Paweł Wszołek, Matt Smith, Paul Smyth

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

Costel Pantilimon, Tobias Figueiredo, Ben Osborn, Danny Fox, Tendayi Darikwa, Matty Cash, Lee Tomlin, Jack Colback, Joe Lolley, Ben Watson, Ben Brereton Díaz