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Commentary
3¹MIKEL's shot beat FLATT but rebounded off the Darlington woodwork.
8¹GOAL!! A wonderful drive from JIMÉNEZ was pushed away by the 'keeper only as far as MIKEL who placed the ball past the stranded Darlington 'keeper. (1-0 Nottingham Forest)
11¹GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of MIKEL who drove the ball past the helpless 'keeper. (2-0 Nottingham Forest)
15¹A good effort from MIKEL scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
16¹BOLY waltzed past IGOR and rattled a poor shot over.
21¹A corner was collected by NELSON who headed the ball just wide.
28¹JIMÉNEZ flicked a simple chance past the righthand post.
30¹A penalty box scramble resulted in JIMÉNEZ knocking a low shot wide.
30¹GOAL!! A ZINCHENKO run down the right resulted in a nice cross for MIKEL to crack in. (3-0 Nottingham Forest)
32¹SCHMEICHEL did well to hold onto a powerful strike from KALAJDZIC.
33¹The hapless Darlington 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from BALOTELLI dropped just over.
34¹MIKEL booted the ball wide from just inside the area.
36¹GOAL!! A brilliant ball from GODFREY left AWONIYI in the clear, he made FLATT commit himself before touching the ball to MIKEL to score. (4-0 Nottingham Forest)
39¹GOAL!! LEES-MELOU tried to play the ball out of the Darlington penalty area but was tackled by RÚBEN NEVES who forced the ball to OXLADE-CHAMBERLAIN for a simple tap in. (5-0 Nottingham Forest)
41¹NELSON chipped the ball to FABINHO who nodded it wide.
44¹BALOTELLI receives a yellow card by the ref for a late challenge.
2²OXLADE-CHAMBERLAIN beat NELSON and drilled the ball to JIMÉNEZ who toe-poked his shot wide.
6²AWONIYI headed wide.
8²GOAL!! Unlucky NELSON hit the upright before LEES-MELOU stabbed the ball into the net as OXLADE-CHAMBERLAIN failed to clear. (5-1 Nottingham Forest)
12²A free-kick from NELSON floated wide.
29²A fine ball from FABINHO on the right fell to NELSON who mishit his shot wide.
30²OXLADE-CHAMBERLAIN fluffed an easy chance.

 
Darlington
 
League position: 15
Home league form: XLLW
Overall league form: XWLXLLWL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Jon FLATT4 15½Kasper SCHMEICHEL(c)
Neco WILLIAMS7 27 Joe GOMEZ
Yasser LAROUCI8 37½Oleksandr ZINCHENKO
Pierre LEES-MELOU8 46½Morgan GIBBS-WHITE
FABINHO6½57½Ben GODFREY
IGOR Julio6½66½Willy BOLY
Frédéric GUILBERT6 77 RÚBEN Diogo NEVES
Reiss NELSON6½87 MIKEL Oyarzabal
(p)Sasa KALAJDZIC6½97 Raúl JIMÉNEZ(p)
(f)Mario BALOTELLI5½106½Alex OXLADE-CHAMBERLAIN(f)
(c)Danny WELBECK6½116 Taiwo AWONIYI
Manager
Matt RITCHIE  12  Anthony MARTIAL
Salis ABDUL SAMED6 13  Gary WOODS
Federico MACHEDA  14  Orel MANGALA
Eli KING  15  Tyler BINDON
Rabbi MATONDO  167 Jesse LINGARD
 
Nottingham Forest
 
League position: 6
Away league form: WOLW
Overall league form: XWWOXLWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Darlington 1 Nottingham Forest 5
(Half-time: 0-5, Attendance: 24,812, Stadium: Blackwell Meadows, Referee: Mark Clattenburg 7½)

Lees-Melou 8²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Mikel 8¹, Mikel 11¹, Mikel 30¹, Mikel 36¹, Oxlade-Chamberlain 39¹
WelbeckóAbdul Samed 37²GomezóLingard 33²
  
Balotelli 44¹ 
20
158
98
56
712
1218
41
48%52%
Man of the match: Yasser Larouci