Aston Villa 2–0 Nottingham Forest

AVLVilla

2–0

Full Time

NFOForest

Bertrand Traoré 48′
Ollie Watkins 90+5′ · assist Jacob Ramsey

Saturday 8 April at 15:00 · Villa Park · Referee Anthony Taylor

Match stats

65%Possession35%

8Shots6

3Shots on target2

2Big chances0

1Corners8

448Passes227

86%Pass accuracy66%

12Tackles17

4Interceptions5

2Saves1

7Fouls17

1Offsides7

3Yellow cards4

How it happened

28′Bertrand Traoré on for Leon Bailey · home
32′Remo Freuler on for Cheikhou Kouyaté · away
35′Álex Moreno · home
36′Jonjo Shelvey · away
48′Bertrand Traoré · home
65′Taiwo Awoniyi on for Joe Worrall · away

Line-ups

Villa4-4-23-4-2-1Forest

Next meetingNottingham Forest v Aston VillaSun, 5 Nov 2023

Previous meetings · last 5

3

Villa

2

Draws

0

Forest

65′

Orel Mangala on for Jonjo Shelvey · away

75′Leander Dendoncker on for Emiliano Buendía · home

78′André Ayew on for Danilo · away

85′Taiwo Awoniyi · away

85′Ezri Konsa · home

90′Orel Mangala · away

90+1′Harry Toffolo · away

90+5′Ollie Watkins · assist Jacob Ramsey · home

90+6′Ollie Watkins · home

AVLVilla4-4-2

1Emiliano Martínez
18Ashley Young
4Ezri Konsa
5Tyrone Mings
15Álex Moreno
41Jacob RamseyA
7John McGinn
6Douglas Luiz
10Emiliano Buendía▾ 75′ (Dendoncker on)
31Leon Bailey▾ 28′ (Traoré on)
11Ollie Watkins

9Bertrand Traoré▴ 28′ for Bailey

32Leander Dendoncker▴ 75′ for Buendía

Bench: Diego Carlos, Calum Chambers, Jhon Durán, Robin Olsen, Lucas Digne, Viljami Sinisalo, Sebastian Revan

NFOForest3-4-2-1

12Keylor Navas
4Joe Worrall▾ 65′ (Awoniyi on)
38Felipe
19Moussa Niakhaté
7Neco Williams
6Jonjo Shelvey▾ 65′ (Mangala on)
21Cheikhou Kouyaté▾ 32′ (Freuler on)
15Harry Toffolo
10Morgan Gibbs-White
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Aston Villa

Sept 2017Aston Villa2–1Nottingham Forest

We go again

Danilo

▾ 78′ (Ayew on)

20Brennan Johnson

5Orel Mangala▴ 65′ for Shelvey

9Taiwo Awoniyi▴ 65′ for Worrall

23Remo Freuler▴ 32′ for Kouyaté

34André Ayew▴ 78′ for Danilo

Bench: Jesse Lingard, Wayne Hennessey, Sam Surridge, Emmanuel Dennis, Scott McKenna