Championship · ENG · Round 36

Nottingham Forest
1 - 0 Full time
Preston North End

City Ground, Nottingham

Lineups

Nottingham Forest4-4-2
DD1De Vries
EL2Lichaj
MM5Mills
MM4Mancienne
CC8↓72'Cohen
RM15↓83'Mendes
GG22Gardner
RT32Tesche
BO38Osborn
CO29O'Grady
NO17⚽↓73'Oliveira
AL1Lindegaard
CW15Woods
TC5Clarke
PH23Huntington
BW6↓46'Wright
GC3Cunningham
DJ11Johnson
BP4Pearson
PG12↓77'Gallagher
AR32Reach
JG14↓46'Garner
Preston North End5-3-2

Nottingham Forest substitutes

3 Bojan Jokic ↑72'
37 Jorge Grant ↑73'
24 David Vaughan ↑83'
44 Deimantas Petravicius
26 Dimitar Evtimov
41 Gerry McDonagh
6 Kelvin Wilson

Coach: Dougie Freedman

Preston North End substitutes

37 Callum Robinson ↑46'
25 Jordan Hugill ↑46'
13 Eoin Doyle ↑77'
43 Chris Kirkland
30 Clive Smith
19 John Welsh
2 Marnick Vermijl

Coach: Simon Grayson

Match events

33'Ryan Mendes
37'Nélson Oliveira assist: Ben Osborn 1 - 0⚽
39'Joe Garner
45'Michael Mancienne
Second half
46'↑ Jordan Hugill ↓ Joe Garner⇄
46'↑ Callum Robinson ↓ Bailey Wright⇄
56'Daniel Johnson
66'Robert Tesche
72'↑ Bojan Jokic ↓ Chris Cohen⇄
73'↑ Jorge Grant ↓ Nélson Oliveira⇄
77'↑ Eoin Doyle ↓ Paul Gallagher⇄
83'↑ David Vaughan ↓ Ryan Mendes⇄
90'Paul Huntington

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Match details

CompetitionChampionship
Kick-off (UTC)Tuesday, 8 March 2016, 19:45 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

5Nottingham Forest wins9Draws4Preston North End wins

18 past meetings on record. Biggest Nottingham Forest win: Nottingham Forest 3–0 Preston North End (2021). Biggest Preston North End win: Nottingham Forest 0–3 Preston North End (2018).

22 Feb 2022Preston North End 0 - 0 Nottingham ForestChampionship
6 Nov 2021Nottingham Forest 3 - 0 Preston North EndChampionship
8 May 2021Nottingham Forest 1 - 2 Preston North EndChampionship
2 Jan 2021Preston North End 0 - 1 Nottingham ForestChampionship
11 Jul 2020Preston North End 1 - 1 Nottingham ForestChampionship
31 Aug 2019Nottingham Forest 1 - 1 Preston North EndChampionship
16 Feb 2019Preston North End 0 - 0 Nottingham ForestChampionship
8 Dec 2018Nottingham Forest 0 - 1 Preston North EndChampionship
30 Jan 2018Nottingham Forest 0 - 3 Preston North EndChampionship
23 Dec 2017Preston North End 1 - 1 Nottingham ForestChampionship
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1 Apr 2017Preston North End 1 - 1 Nottingham ForestChampionship
14 Dec 2016Nottingham Forest 1 - 1 Preston North EndChampionship
3 Nov 2015Preston North End 1 - 0 Nottingham ForestChampionship
5 Feb 2014Preston North End 0 - 2 Nottingham ForestFA Cup
24 Jan 2014Nottingham Forest 0 - 0 Preston North EndFA Cup
22 Feb 2011Nottingham Forest 2 - 2 Preston North EndChampionship
8 Jan 2011Preston North End 1 - 2 Nottingham ForestFA Cup
14 Sep 2010Preston North End 1 - 2 Nottingham ForestChampionship