Championship · ENG · Round 13

Nottingham Forest
2 - 0 Full time
Burton Albion

City Ground, Nottingham

Lineups

Nottingham Forest4-2-3-1
JS43Smith
EL2⚽Lichaj
MM4Mancienne
DF13Fox
AT6↓23'Traore
LB7Bridcutt
DV24↓74'Vaughan
BM10⚽McKay
JC35↓73'Cummings
BO11Osborn
DM9Murphy
SB1Bywater
JB23Buxton
KM5McFadzean
BT6↓80'Turner
JB2↓14'Brayford
LM7Murphy
JA4Allen
SW3Warnock
SS9Scannell
LA10↓46'Akins
LD11Dyer
Burton Albion3-4-3

Nottingham Forest substitutes

42 Joe Worrall 6.9 ↑23'
20 Kieran Dowell 6.6 ↑73'
31 Andreas Bouchalakis 6.5 ↑74'
17 Ben Brereton
19 Jamie Ward
30 Stephen Henderson
27 Tendayi Darikwa

Coach: Mark Warburton

Burton Albion substitutes

12 Tom Flanagan 6.6 ↑14'
17 Marvin Sordell 5.0 ↑46'
16 Luke Varney 5.5 ↑80'
13 Connor Ripley
21 Hope Akpan
8 Matthew Lund
15 Tom Naylor

Coach: Nigel Clough

Match events

14'↑ Tom Flanagan ↓ John Brayford⇄
23'↑ Joe Worrall ↓ Armand Traore⇄
Second half
46'↑ Marvin Sordell ↓ Lucas Akins⇄
47'Ben Turner
57'Luke Murphy
58'Barrie McKay 1 - 0⚽
73'↑ Kieran Dowell ↓ Jason Cummings⇄
74'↑ Andreas Bouchalakis ↓ David Vaughan⇄
78'Eric Lichaj assist: Barrie McKay 2 - 0⚽
80'↑ Luke Varney ↓ Ben Turner⇄

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Match details

CompetitionChampionship
Kick-off (UTC)Saturday, 21 October 2017, 14:00 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

2Nottingham Forest wins1Draws2Burton Albion wins

5 past meetings on record. Biggest Nottingham Forest win: Nottingham Forest 1–0 Burton Albion (2022).

12 Jul 2022Nottingham Forest 1 - 0 Burton AlbionClub Friendlies
30 Oct 2018Burton Albion 3 - 2 Nottingham ForestEFL Cup
17 Feb 2018Burton Albion 0 - 0 Nottingham ForestChampionship
11 Mar 2017Burton Albion 1 - 0 Nottingham ForestChampionship
6 Aug 2016Nottingham Forest 4 - 3 Burton AlbionChampionship