FA Cup · ENG · Round 3

Wigan Athletic
2 - 0 Full time
Nottingham Forest

DW Stadium

Lineups

Wigan Athletic4-4-2
JH28Haugaard
MP6Power
JB3Buxton
DB33Burn
SW23Warnock
NP25↓8'Powell
SM8Morsy
SM16MacDonald
MJ17Jacobs
WG9⚽↓88'Grigg
YW31⚽↓68'Wildschut
SH30Henderson
MC41Cash
JH25Hobbs
MM4Mancienne
EL2Lichaj
NC12↓63'Cardoso
TL28Lam
B17Berto
BO11Osborn
NB14↓81'Bendtner
BA9↓55'Assombalonga
Nottingham Forest4-4-2

Wigan Athletic substitutes

14 Jordi Gomez ↑8'
11 Adam Le Fondre ↑68'
15 Jordan Flores ↑88'
22 Jussi Jääskeläinen
29 Luke Burke
30 James Barrigan
18 Kaiyne Woolery

Coach: Warren Joyce

Nottingham Forest substitutes

20 Lica ↑55'
18 Mustapha Carayol ↑63'
39 Apostolos Vellios ↑81'
38 Vladimir Stojkovic
27 Damien Perquis
5 Matthew Mills
37 Jorge Grant

Coach: Philippe Montanier · Unavailable: Eric da Silva Moreira (injury), Ola Aina (injury)

Match events

6'Jack Hobbs
8'↑ Jordi Gomez ↓ Nick Powell⇄
12'Shaun MacDonald
35'Michael Jacobs
45'Will Grigg assist: Stephen Warnock 1 - 0⚽
Second half
55'↑ Lica ↓ Britt Assombalonga⇄
57'Yanic Wildschut assist: Stephen Warnock 2 - 0⚽
63'↑ Mustapha Carayol ↓ Nicolao Cardoso⇄
68'↑ Adam Le Fondre ↓ Yanic Wildschut⇄
81'↑ Apostolos Vellios ↓ Nicklas Bendtner⇄
88'↑ Jordan Flores ↓ Will Grigg⇄
90'Jordan Flores
90'Berto
90'Max Power

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Match details

CompetitionFA Cup
Kick-off (UTC)Saturday, 7 January 2017, 15:00 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

4Wigan Athletic wins3Draws4Nottingham Forest wins

11 past meetings on record. Biggest Wigan Athletic win: Nottingham Forest 3–0 Wigan Athletic (2015). Biggest Nottingham Forest win: Nottingham Forest 1–4 Wigan Athletic (2014).

29 Dec 2019Nottingham Forest 1 - 0 Wigan AthleticChampionship
20 Oct 2019Wigan Athletic 1 - 0 Nottingham ForestChampionship
26 Jan 2019Nottingham Forest 3 - 1 Wigan AthleticChampionship
18 Aug 2018Wigan Athletic 2 - 2 Nottingham ForestChampionship
25 Feb 2017Wigan Athletic 0 - 0 Nottingham ForestChampionship
20 Aug 2016Nottingham Forest 4 - 3 Wigan AthleticChampionship
11 Feb 2015Nottingham Forest 3 - 0 Wigan AthleticChampionship
30 Sep 2014Wigan Athletic 0 - 0 Nottingham ForestChampionship
1 Mar 2014Nottingham Forest 1 - 4 Wigan AthleticChampionship
31 Aug 2013Wigan Athletic 2 - 1 Nottingham ForestChampionship
Show all 11 past meetings
28 Aug 2012Nottingham Forest 1 - 4 Wigan AthleticLeague Cup