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Match report
English Footie
League 1: Round 40 (setup 4, season 27)
Nottingham Forest
v.
Colchester United
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
23
Overall form:
Home form:
Jordan SMITH17Freddie WOODMAN
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
5
Overall form:
Home form:
Eric LICHAJ27Marco 'Davide' FARAONI
Tendayi DARIKWA738Ben MEE
Liam BRIDCUTT48Florin GARDOS
Joe WORRALL5Gareth McAULEY
Jack HOBBS66Pat BALDWIN
Matty CASH78Don COWIE
Barrie McKAY8Kris COMMONS
Daryl MURPHY69Jay BOTHROYD
Ben BRERETON DÍAZ610Igor VETOKELE
Jamie WARD117Joshua KING
Manager
David VAUGHAN12Joe MASON
Dimitar EVTIMOV13Jason STEELE
Dimitar ILIEV14Steve SCHUMACHER
Kieran DOWELL15Moses ASHIKODI
Ben OSBORN166Theo ROBINSON

Nottingham Forest 1 Colchester United 1
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 19,129, Stadium: City Ground, Referee: Howard WEBB 6½)
59 McKayScorers15 Vetokele
59 Bridcutt <=> IlievSubstitutions80 King <=> Robinson
Sendings off
90+4 HobbsBookings19 Vetokele
1Corners0
16Fouls8
1Offsides0
5Shots on3
7Shots off8
12Total shots11
4Shots saved2
44%Possession56%
Man of the match: Florin GARDOS
2MURPHY drilled a right foot shot inches over from twenty-five yards out.
5A penalty box scramble resulted in MURPHY driving a low shot wide.
13VETOKELE rattled a simple chance past the near post.
15GOAL!! The creative KING neatly flicked on a cross for VETOKELE to fire the ball in. (1-0 Colchester United)
16BRIDCUTT beat two Colchester United players and thundered a shot inches over.
19WEBB books VETOKELE for a bad foul.
21A lovely effort from CASH scraped the woodwork.
22COMMONS snapped at a simple chance.
27A neatly crafted cross from BRERETON DÍAZ, was knocked goalbound by MCKAY only for the Colchester United 'keeper to palm clear.
32WORRALL dribbled away from FARAONI and rifled a tame shot into the crowd.
44BOTHROYD shot wide.
45+2MCKAY's shot was well held by WOODMAN.
45+3A accurate pass bobbled toward COMMONS and his looping shot raced narrowly wide.
 
50The 'keeper was able to palm clear a tame header from COMMONS.
56A tame shot from MCKAY trickled agonisingly wide.
59GOAL!! A shot from MCKAY which the 'keeper was able to palm clear seemed to have crossed the line and WEBB gave the goal. (1-1)
62KING was put clear by VETOKELE and he beat SMITH but glanced his shot wide.
63A looping shot from MCKAY was pushed round the post by the Colchester United 'keeper.
64WARD made space on the right and touched the ball to MURPHY who rasped the ball wide.
70KING beat WORRALL and placed the ball to VETOKELE who fumbled his shot wide.
81MEE headed just wide.
83A delightful shot from COMMONS was dealt with by a good stop from the Nottingham Forest 'keeper.
89A fine piece of skill was ended by a good save by the advancing WOODMAN.
90+1A fine ball from BALDWIN on the left found COMMONS who mishit his shot inches over.
90+4HOBBS booked by the referee.