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Commentary
KLOSE beat a number of Birmingham City players and stroked a great chance over the bar.
ROBERTS booked for arguing with the referee.
An inswinging corner was flicked into the arms of the Birmingham City 'keeper by LOPO.
11¹LESCOTT receives a yellow card for a high challenge on LOPO.
16¹BEREZUTSKY fired a left foot shot just wide from twenty-five yards out.
18¹A shot from KLOSE held no problem for the 'keeper.
18¹GOAL!! A MALOUDA run down the left resulted in a perfect cross for IAQUINTA to fire in. (1-0 Nottingham Forest)
22¹GARDNER booked for a bad tackle.
22¹A header by KLOSE at the far post was easily collected by the Birmingham City 'keeper.
26¹IGNASHEVICH dribbled away from CLÁUDIO CAÇAPA and stabbed a weak shot past the post.
26¹A poor shot from WICHNIAREK rolled agonisingly wide.
28¹A great effort from IGNASHEVICH scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
33¹IAQUINTA fluffed an easy chance.
38¹PARKER booked by HAYWOOD.
40¹A good ball from FERNANDO MEIRA on the left was collected by MALOUDA who mishit his shot over the bar.
46¹GOAL!! PARKER hit a beautiful twenty yard shot past the stunned 'keeper. (1-1)
MALOUDA ran onto a delightful ball from TOULALAN but fired his effort wide.
IAQUINTA beat MELLI and flicked the ball to BEREZUTSKY who fired his shot wide.
The Birmingham City 'keeper saved a curling shot from MALOUDA.
14²Uncertainty in the Nottingham Forest defence enabled LESCOTT to thump the ball over the bar.
22²IAQUINTA hoofed the ball wide of the lefthand post from the edge of the box.
24²A penalty box meleé resulted in IGNASHEVICH knocking the ball wide.
30²A free-kick from IAQUINTA floated over.
31²A corner bobbled toward MALOUDA who turned the ball inches over.
34²A cross from IGNASHEVICH left LOPO in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
39²MALOUDA shot over.

 
Nottingham Forest
 
League position: 3
Home league form: WXLW
Overall league form: WWWXXLWW
Formation: 1-3-3-3
Line-ups
Sebastien FREY1Michael OAKES
Alberto LOPO2MELLI
Marek JANKULOVSKI3Joleon LESCOTT
Jérémy TOULALAN4Scott PARKER
Aleksei BEREZUTSKY5Anthony GARDNER
FERNANDO José MEIRA6CLÁUDIO CAÇAPA
Dean MARNEY7Sammy IGOE
Florent MALOUDA8Michael TONGE
(p)Vincenzo IAQUINTA9Artur WICHNIAREK(c,p)
(f)Sergei IGNASHEVICH10Jason ROBERTS(f)
(c)Miroslav KLOSE11Hakan YAKIN
Manager
Teemu TAINIO  12  Robbie SAVAGE
QUIM  13  Wesley SONCK
Nicky BUTT  14  Bernt HAAS
Martin ALBRECHTSEN  15  Sol DAVIS
Predrag VIDEKANIC16  Carlton COLE
 
Birmingham City
 
League position: 6
Away league form: WWWL
Overall league form: WWXWWLLW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Nottingham Forest 1 Birmingham City 1
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 50,588, Stadium: City Ground, Referee: Mark Haywood 5½)

Iaquinta 18¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Parker 46¹
BerezutskyóVidekanic 9² 
  
 Roberts 1¹, Lescott 11¹, Gardner 22¹, Parker 38¹
47
314
106
51
142
193
40
53%47%
Man of the match: Fernando José Meira