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Commentary
4¹JORGINHO fired the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
11¹GOAL!! A beautiful outswinging corner was forced in at the near post by GIBBS-WHITE. (1-0 Nottingham Forest)
17¹A header by MIKEL at the far post was easily collected by the 'keeper.
18¹JOVETIC's shot was well saved by the 'keeper.
20¹A looping shot from NELSON was forced wide by the 'keeper.
20¹LLORIS parried a neatly crafted strike from ZINCHENKO.
27¹A shot from RÚBEN NEVES was smothered by LLORIS.
27¹An outswinging corner was headed into the arms of the 'keeper by JIMÉNEZ.
28¹GOAL!! An outswinging corner headed out by RÚBEN NEVES was shot into the back of the net by NELSON. (1-1)
36¹The bemused WOODS was all agog as a backpass from BIANCONE fell just wide.
38¹GOAL!! BOLY tried to play the ball out of the Nottingham Forest penalty area but was tackled by LEES-MELOU who fired the ball to NELSON for an easy goal. (2-1 Darlington)
41¹A shot from JORGINHO was hoofed off the line by MAVROPANOS.
2²GOAL!! ZINCHENKO brought the ball forward, looked up and drove a shot into the Darlington net. (2-2)
4²GIBBS-WHITE headed over the bar.
13²A cross from LEES-MELOU left LAROUCI in plenty of space but he rushed his shot.
20²A accurate pass fell to BALOTELLI and his left foot effort went narrowly wide.
24²IGOR waltzed past BIANCONE and stabbed a poor shot into the crowd.
28²A poor strike from GIBBS-WHITE rolled agonisingly wide.
29²JORGINHO stabbed an easy chance past the far post.
37²The referee cautions WILLIAMS for a cynical challenge.
41²GOAL!! A quick-witted MIKEL pounced on a loose ball on the right and made no mistake. (3-2 Nottingham Forest)
43²The Nottingham Forest 'keeper saved a swerving shot from RITCHIE.

 
Nottingham Forest
 
League position: 20
Home league form: LWLW
Overall league form: LLLWLLLW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Gary WOODS6 16½Hugo LLORIS(c)
Ben GODFREY7 26½Neco WILLIAMS
Oleksandr ZINCHENKO8 38 Yasser LAROUCI
RÚBEN Diogo NEVES7½47½Pierre LEES-MELOU
Willy BOLY6½56½IGOR Julio
Giulian BIANCONE6 67 Konstantinos MAVROPANOS
Morgan GIBBS-WHITE7 76 Stevan JOVETIC
MIKEL Oyarzabal8 86½Reiss NELSON
(p)Raúl JIMÉNEZ6½97 Mario BALOTELLI(p)
(c,f)JORGINHO5½106½Salis ABDUL SAMED(f)
Taiwo AWONIYI5½116 Danny WELBECK
Manager
GUSTAVO Henrique SCARPA  12  Federico MACHEDA
Anthony MARTIAL6 13  Jon FLATT
Omar RICHARDS  14  Frédéric GUILBERT
Jesse LINGARD  15  Sebastiaan BORNAUW
Dale TAYLOR  166 Matt RITCHIE
 
Darlington
 
League position: 18
Away league form: WLLL
Overall league form: LWLXXLXL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Nottingham Forest 3 Darlington 2
(Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 30,377, Stadium: City Ground, Referee: Lee Probert 7½)

Gibbs-White 11¹, Zinchenko 2², Mikel 41²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Nelson 28¹, Nelson 38¹
JorginhoóMartial 32²BalotellióRitchie 37²
  
 Williams 37²
31
713
52
125
36
1511
83
52%48%
Man of the match: Mikel Oyarzabal