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Match report
English Footie
League 1: Round 43 (setup 1, season 25)
Nottingham Forest
v.
Crewe Alexandra
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
2
Overall form:
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Sergei RYZHIKOV71René ADLER
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
5
Overall form:
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Roman SHISHKIN2Stefan DE VRIJ
Maynor Alexis FIGUEROA Róchez73Nicolas Alexis Julio N'KOULOU Ndoubena
Cristian Daniel LEDESMA4Andrea POLI
Daniel VAN BUYTEN75Medhi BENATIA
Maurizio DOMIZZI6Sven BENDER
Givanildo Vieira de Souza, HULK77Shinji OKAZAKI
Silvestre Manuel Gonçalves VARELA8Moussa SISSOKO
HÉLDER Manuel Marques POSTIGA97Stefan KIESSLING
Kevin DE BRUYNE710ARDA Turan
Johan ELMANDER117Granit XHAKA
Forest Gump TippleManagerBeck Nigel
Joe ALLEN12Frederico Chaves Guedes, FRED
Sebastian MIELITZ13Erwin MULDER
Jeffrey GOUWELEEUW14Mickaël CIANI
Demy DE ZEEUW15Florian Marc JOZEFZOON
John O'SHEA16André-Pierre GIGNAC

Nottingham Forest 1 Crewe Alexandra 2
(Half-time: 0-2, Attendance: 59,453, Stadium: City Ground, Referee: Dave FOSTER 6½)
81 ElmanderScorers7og Hulk, 22 Okazaki
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings11 Kiessling, 28 Arda, 47 Xhaka, 65 Sissoko
3Corners10
9Fouls11
0Offsides3
5Shots on4
10Shots off6
15Total shots10
4Shots saved2
49%Possession51%
Man of the match: Shinji OKAZAKI
3OKAZAKI made space on the right and dragged the ball to BENDER who rasped the ball over.
7GOAL!! A shot from OKAZAKI deflected off the shins of HULK and bobbled past the helpless 'keeper and over the line.
8DE BRUYNE beat DE VRIJ and whacked the ball to HÉLDER POSTIGA who fired his effort wide.
10HÉLDER POSTIGA was put clear by SHISHKIN and he stepped inside the 'keeper but glanced his shot wide.
11The ref yellow cards KIESSLING for a bad foul.
13ARDA beat three Nottingham Forest players and slammed an effort over.
18A free-kick from OKAZAKI raced just beyond the near post.
19A good effort from BENDER scraped the outside of the post.
22GOAL!! On the left wing ARDA collected a defender's clearance and hit it into the goalmouth for OKAZAKI to flick it into the net. (2-0 Crewe Alexandra)
23A accurate pass found ELMANDER and his right foot shot raced narrowly over.
28ARDA booked for a high challenge on DE BRUYNE.
31A refined pass from KIESSLING, was placed goalbound by OKAZAKI only for the 'keeper to block.
33A shot from ELMANDER was nodded off the line by N'KOULOU.
39ELMANDER waltzed past XHAKA and poked a tame shot wide.
 
47The referee cautions XHAKA.
52The Crewe Alexandra 'keeper was able to block a poor shot from VARELA.
57A header by OKAZAKI at the far post was easily collected by RYZHIKOV.
62VARELA's shot was well saved by the 'keeper.
65The ref books SISSOKO for dangerous play against LEDESMA.
66A penalty box meleé resulted in ELMANDER driving the ball over.
81GOAL!! An inswinging corner was nodded clear only for ELMANDER to hit the ball into the back of the net. (2-1 Crewe Alexandra)
90ELMANDER placed a right foot shot over the bar from twenty yards out.