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Match report
English Footie
League 2: Round 31 (setup 4, season 29)
Nottingham Forest
v.
Colchester United
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
17
Overall form:
Home form:
Jordan SMITH71Stefan MARINOVIC
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
5
Overall form:
Home form:
Yohan BENALOUANE826Marco 'Davide' FARAONI
Michael HEFELE37Nathan BYRNE
Ben OSBORN47Tom LAPSLIE
Alexander MILOSEVIC5Florin GARDOS
Michael DAWSON6Pat BALDWIN
Matty CASH7Don COWIE
Joe LOLLEY8Junior STANISLAS
Lewis GRABBAN9Frank NOUBLE
Liam BRIDCUTT610Ben STEVENSON
Jamie WARD116Igor VETOKELE
Manager
Ryan YATES12Theo ROBINSON
Arvin APPIAH13Jason STEELE
Tendayi DARIKWA14Mikael MANDRON
Claudio Ariel YACOB156Ollie SIMS
Zach CLOUGH16Courtney SENIOR

Nottingham Forest 2 Colchester United 1
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 19,305, Stadium: City Ground, Referee: Graham HORWOOD 7½)
51 Benalouane, 63 GrabbanScorers88 Vetokele
Substitutions48 Lapslie <=> Sims
Sendings off
Bookings16 Gardos, 31 Nouble, 87 Stevenson
2Corners2
11Fouls13
6Offsides1
8Shots on6
4Shots off7
12Total shots13
6Shots saved5
46%Possession54%
Man of the match: Yohan BENALOUANE
1MARINOVIC was able to palm clear a weak shot from GRABBAN.
8VETOKELE rattled a simple chance past the lefthand post.
10The 'keeper saved a swerving shot from BRIDCUTT.
16GARDOS cautioned by HORWOOD.
27The 'keeper dived to his right to stop a fierce drive from Nottingham Forest's LOLLEY.
28A fine ball from MILOSEVIC on the right was collected by LOLLEY who sliced his shot over.
29NOUBLE was put clear by BALDWIN and he nutmegged the Nottingham Forest 'keeper but rammed his shot over.
31The ref yellow cards NOUBLE for a bad foul.
37STEVENSON beat HEFELE and flicked the ball to VETOKELE who toe-poked his effort wide.
39BYRNE ran onto a wonderful ball from STANISLAS but pulled his shot wide of the goal.
40A pin-point pass found BRIDCUTT and his right foot shot floated narrowly wide.
42The hapless SMITH could only watch as a backpass from LOLLEY dropped just over.
45A lovely effort from WARD scraped the upright.
 
51GOAL!! A Nottingham Forest counter-attack allowed WARD to setup BENALOUANE with a simple goal. (1-0 Nottingham Forest)
53A fine run was ended by a good save by the advancing 'keeper.
63GOAL!! A wonderful dummy from BRIDCUTT allowed WARD to lay an exceptional ball off to GRABBAN who drilled the ball into the roof of the net. (2-0 Nottingham Forest)
68CASH knocked the ball to GRABBAN who headed it over the bar.
73A shot from GARDOS was smothered by the 'keeper.
79A twenty yard shot from GRABBAN caused the Colchester United 'keeper little difficulty.
87An inswinging corner was forced into the arms of SMITH by VETOKELE.
87STEVENSON booked for arguing with the referee.
88GOAL!! An outswinging corner kicked out by DAWSON was flicked home by VETOKELE. (2-1 Nottingham Forest)