The City Ground

SEASON: 2017-18

Prev Season: 2016-17
This Season: 2017-18
Next Season: 2018-19

DIVISION:: Football League Championship (Tier 2)
MANAGER(s):: Mark Warburton, Gary Brazil (3), Aitor Karanka
FA Cup:: 4th Round (Hull City (A) 1-2)
League Cup:: 3rd Round (Chelsea (A) 1-5)
Player Of The Year:: Ben Osborn

Top Goalscorer:: Kieran Dowell (10 goals)

Results when we scored first

Who Scored First	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points won
Forest scored first	11	1	-	34 out of 36
Opponent scored first	3	7	23	16 out of 99

Points dropped when leading and gained when behind

Leading or Behind	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points won
We take a lead	15	1	2	46 out of 54
We go behind	3	1	23	10 out of 81

When goals were scored and conceded

	First Half					Second Half
Time:	0-10 mins	10-20 mins	20-30 mins	30-40 mins	40-45 mins	45-50 mins	50-60 mins	60-70 mins	70-80 mins	80-90 mins
Num goals scored	3	2	9	4	8	3	6	2	10	15
Num goals conceded

Goals scored, conceded and win and loss margins

Goal count:	1 goal	2 goals	3 goals	4 goals	5+ goals
Scored	15 times	9 times	4 times	3 times	1 time
Conceded	11 times	18 times	7 times	1 time	1 time
Won By	12 times	3 times	2 times	1 time
Lost By	11 times	11 times	2 times	1 time

Analysis of the league positions
This table shows:
(a) how many days we spent in each of the league positions and
(b) how we did when we played teams in each of the positions.

		Record against teams
Forest Pos	Num Days	Opp Pos	P	W	D	L	F	A	Points	Results
1	1	1	1	1	-	-	2	0	3	Wolverhampton Wanderers (2-0)
2		2	2	1	-	1	2	3	3	Sheffield United (2-1), Cardiff City (0-2)
3	2	3	2	-	-	2	2	4	0	Bristol City (1-2), Cardiff City (1-2)
4	2	4	2	1	-	1	3	3	3	Middlesbrough (2-1), Wolverhampton Wanderers (1-2)
5	4	5	4	-	2	2	0	3	2	Leeds United (0-2), Leeds United (0-0), Aston Villa (0-1), Derby County (0-0)
6	2	6	2	-	-	2	0	4	0	Fulham (0-2), Middlesbrough (0-2)
7	2	7	1	-	1	-	0	0	1	Sheffield United (0-0)
8	4	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
9	5	9	2	-	1	1	3	5	1	Ipswich Town (2-4), Preston North End (1-1)
10	4	10	3	-	1	2	0	3	1	Millwall (0-2), Brentford (0-1), Bristol City (0-0)
11	7	11	1	-	-	1	0	3	0	Preston North End (0-3)
12	8	12	3	3	-	-	7	1	9	Queens Park Rangers (4-0), Norwich City (1-0), Ipswich Town (2-1)
13	12	13	1	-	-	1	1	2	0	Aston Villa (1-2)
14	7	14	3	1	1	1	4	5	4	Fulham (1-3), Hull City (3-2), Norwich City (0-0)
15	13	15	2	1	-	1	5	5	3	Sheffield Wednesday (0-3), Queens Park Rangers (5-2)
16	11	16	1	-	-	1	1	3	0	Sheffield Wednesday (1-3)
17	18	17	1	-	-	1	0	2	0	Derby County (0-2)
18	3	18	2	1	1	-	5	4	4	Brentford (4-3), Reading (1-1)
19		19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
20		20	2	1	-	1	2	3	3	Sunderland (1-0), Reading (1-3)
21		21	1	1	-	-	3	2	3	Bolton Wanderers (3-2)
22		22	5	3	-	2	7	4	9	Burton Albion (2-0), Sunderland (0-1), Hull City (0-2), Birmingham City (2-1), Barnsley (3-0)
23		23	3	-	-	3	3	6	0	Barnsley (1-2), Birmingham City (0-1), Bolton Wanderers (2-3)
24		24	1	-	1	-	0	0	1	Burton Albion (0-0)

Not included: Week 1 game against Millwall (1-0)

ATTENDANCES (HOME)

Highest League Attendance:: 29,106
Lowest League Attendance:: 20,596
Average League Attendance:: 24,679
Highest Cup Attendance:: 27,182
Lowest Cup Attendance:: 7,546

MISCELLANEOUS

Clean Sheets:: 13
Red cards:: 2
Yellow cards:: 89
Penalties scored:: 6
Penalties conceded:: 3
Penalties missed:: 1
Penalties saved:: 1

END OF SEASON TABLE (2017-18)

CHAMPIONSHIP (Tier 2)								Home					Away								Results
Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Result	Home	Away
1	Wolverhampton Wanderers	46	30	9	7	82	39	16	5	2	47	18	14	4	5	35	21	43	99		1-2	2-0
2	Cardiff City	46	27	9	10	69	39	16	4	3	40	16	11	5	7	29	23	30	90		0-2	1-2
3	Fulham	46	25	13	8	79	46	13	8	2	40	17	12	5	6	39	29	33	88		1-3	0-2
4	Aston Villa	46	24	11	11	72	42	14	7	2	42	19	10	4	9	30	23	30	83		0-1	1-2
5	Middlesbrough	46	22	10	14	67	45	14	3	6	33	17	8	7	8	34	28	22	76		2-1	0-2
6	Derby County	46	20	15	11	70	48	12	5	6	41	22	8	10	5	29	26	22	75		0-0	0-2
7	Preston North End	46	19	16	11	57	46	9	8	6	27	22	10	8	5	30	24	11	73		0-3	1-1
8	Millwall	46	19	15	12	56	45	12	7	4	33	21	7	8	8	23	24	11	72		1-0	0-2
9	Brentford	46	18	15	13	62	52	9	11	3	37	24	9	4	10	25	28	10	69		0-1	4-3
10	Sheffield United	46	20	9	17	62	55	12	5	6	33	20	8	4	11	29	35	7	69		2-1	0-0
11	Bristol City	46	17	16	13	67	58	11	6	6	41	28	6	10	7	26	30	9	67		0-0	1-2
12	Ipswich Town	46	17	9	20	57	60	9	6	8	29	27	8	3	12	28	33	-3	60		2-1	2-4
13	Leeds United	46	17	9	20	59	64	10	6	7	32	27	7	3	13	27	37	-5	60		0-2	0-0
14	Norwich City	46	15	15	16	49	60	8	8	7	25	25	7	7	9	24	35	-11	60		1-0	0-0
15	Sheffield Wednesday	46	14	15	17	59	60	8	7	8	37	31	6	8	9	22	29	-1	57		0-3	1-3
16	Queens Park Rangers	46	15	11	20	58	70	12	5	6	38	31	3	6	14	20	39	-12	56		4-0	5-2
17	Nottingham Forest	46	15	8	23	51	65	10	3	10	25	27	5	5	13	26	38	-14	53
18	Hull City	46	11	16	19	70	70	7	8	8	41	32	4	8	11	29	38	0	49		0-2	3-2
19	Birmingham City	46	13	7	26	38	68	10	3	10	21	24	3	4	16	17	44	-30	46		2-1	0-1
20	Reading	46	10	14	22	48	70	5	8	10	25	35	5	6	12	23	35	-22	44		1-1	1-3
21	Bolton Wanderers	46	10	13	23	39	74	9	4	10	25	33	1	9	13	14	41	-35	43		3-2	2-3
22	Barnsley	46	9	14	23	48	72	5	9	9	25	32	4	5	14	23	40	-24	41		3-0	1-2
23	Burton Albion	46	10	11	25	38	81	4	5	14	19	43	6	6	11	19	38	-43	41		2-0	0-0
24	Sunderland	46	7	16	23	52	80	3	7	13	23	39	4	9	10	29	41	-28	37		0-1	1-0

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GAMES

League

Week	Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result	Att	Pos	Scorers
1	Fri Aug 04, 2017	Millwall	H	1-0	Win	28,065	1	McKay (41)
2	Sat Aug 12, 2017	Brentford	A	4-3	Win	10,169	3	Bouchalakis (41, 47), Murphy (43), Dowell (83)
3	Tue Aug 15, 2017	Barnsley	A	1-2	Loss	13,883	5	Murphy (26)
4	Sat Aug 19, 2017	Middlesbrough	H	2-1	Win	26,265	4	McKay (16), Murphy (79 pen)
5	Sat Aug 26, 2017	Leeds United	H	0-2	Loss	25,682	6
6	Sat Sep 09, 2017	Sheffield Wednesday	A	1-3	Loss	25,710	12	Osborn (29)
7	Tue Sep 12, 2017	Sunderland	A	1-0	Win	26,061	8	Murphy (86)
8	Sat Sep 16, 2017	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	1-2	Loss	25,756	10	Carayol (75)
9	Sat Sep 23, 2017	Aston Villa	A	1-2	Loss	28,554	12	Murphy (52)
10	Tue Sep 26, 2017	Fulham	H	1-3	Loss	21,208	16	Murphy (33)
11	Sat Sep 30, 2017	Sheffield United	H	2-1	Win	25,700	12	Cummings (9), Dowell (27)
12	Sun Oct 15, 2017	Derby County	A	0-2	Loss	31,196	14
13	Sat Oct 21, 2017	Burton Albion	H	2-0	Win	24,686	12	McKay (58), Lichaj (78)
14	Sat Oct 28, 2017	Hull City	A	3-2	Win	15,780	11	Dowell (29, 71, 83 pen)
15	Tue Oct 31, 2017	Reading	A	1-3	Loss	14,868	13	Osborn (86)
16	Sat Nov 04, 2017	Queens Park Rangers	H	4-0	Win	24,021	8	Walker (13, 84), Dowell (44), McKay (52)
17	Sat Nov 18, 2017	Birmingham City	A	0-1	Loss	21,071	10
18	Tue Nov 21, 2017	Norwich City	H	1-0	Win	23,831	7	Murphy (77)
19	Sun Nov 26, 2017	Cardiff City	H	0-2	Loss	25,210	9
20	Sat Dec 02, 2017	Ipswich Town	A	2-4	Loss	16,808	13	Dowell (29), Walker (43)
21	Sat Dec 09, 2017	Bolton Wanderers	H	3-2	Win	22,882	11	McKay (3), Worrall (60), Brereton (89)
22	Sat Dec 16, 2017	Bristol City	A	1-2	Loss	20,128	11	Dowell (47)
23	Sat Dec 23, 2017	Preston North End	A	1-1	Draw	13,481	13	Brereton (58)
24	Tue Dec 26, 2017	Sheffield Wednesday	H	0-3	Loss	28,635	13
25	Sat Dec 30, 2017	Sunderland	H	0-1	Loss	26,830	14
26	Mon Jan 01, 2018	Leeds United	A	0-0	Draw	32,426	14
27	Sat Jan 13, 2018	Aston Villa	H	0-1	Loss	25,433	15
28	Sat Jan 20, 2018	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	2-0	Win	29,050	14	Dowell (40), Osborn (43)
29	Tue Jan 30, 2018	Preston North End	H	0-3	Loss	22,044	15
30	Sat Feb 03, 2018	Fulham	A	0-2	Loss	22,076	16
31	Sat Feb 10, 2018	Hull City	H	0-2	Loss	23,098	16
32	Sat Feb 17, 2018	Burton Albion	A	0-0	Draw	5,775	17
33	Tue Feb 20, 2018	Reading	H	1-1	Draw	21,846	17	Tomlin (85)
34	Sat Feb 24, 2018	Queens Park Rangers	A	5-2	Win	13,675	15	Tomlin (37, 47), Lolley (51), Cash (76), Brereton (90)
35	Sat Mar 03, 2018	Birmingham City	H	2-1	Win	23,296	15	Lolley (6), Cash (79)
36	Tue Mar 06, 2018	Norwich City	A	0-0	Draw	25,184	15
37	Sun Mar 11, 2018	Derby County	H	0-0	Draw	29,106	15
38	Sat Mar 17, 2018	Sheffield United	A	0-0	Draw	28,095	16
39	Fri Mar 30, 2018	Millwall	A	0-2	Loss	16,004	16
41	Sat Apr 07, 2018	Middlesbrough	A	0-2	Loss	25,812	17
42	Tue Apr 10, 2018	Brentford	H	0-1	Loss	20,596	18
43	Sat Apr 14, 2018	Ipswich Town	H	2-1	Win	25,093	17	Brereton (88 pen), Lolley (95)
44	Sat Apr 21, 2018	Cardiff City	A	1-2	Loss	21,310	17	Bridcutt (50)
40	Tue Apr 24, 2018	Barnsley	H	3-0	Win	23,633	17	Tomlin (26), Brereton (36), Vellios (89)
45	Sat Apr 28, 2018	Bristol City	H	0-0	Draw	24,722	17
46	Sun May 06, 2018	Bolton Wanderers	A	2-3	Loss	18,289	17	Osborn (70), Colback (79)

FA Cup

Date	Opponent	Round	Replay	Count	H/A	Score	Result	Att	Scorers
Sun Jan 07, 2018	Arsenal	3			H	4-2	Win	27,182	Lichaj (20, 44), Brereton (64 pen), Dowell (85 pen)
Sat Jan 27, 2018	Hull City	4			A	1-2	Loss	13,450	Vellios (88)

League Cup

Date	Opponent	Round	H/A	Score	Result	Att	Scorers
Tue Aug 08, 2017	Shrewsbury Town	1	H	2-1	Win	7,546	Carayol (29 pen), Cummings (75)
Wed Aug 23, 2017	Newcastle United	2	A	3-2	Win	27,709	Cummings (29, 31), Walker (97)
Wed Sep 20, 2017	Chelsea	3	A	1-5	Loss	40,621	Darikwa (90)

Pre-Season Friendly

Date	Opponent	Country	H/A	Score	Result	Att	Scorers
Wed Jul 19, 2017	Notts County	England	A	2-0	Win	12,209	Brereton (50), Vellios (88)
Sat Jul 22, 2017	Mansfield Town	England	A	4-0	Win	5,333	Cummings (26), Walker (69), Vellios (82, 89)
Tue Jul 25, 2017	Girona	Spain	H	2-1	Win	4,417	Vellios (65, 68 pen)
Sat Jul 29, 2017	Burnley	England	H	1-1	Draw	10,231	Murphy (33)

TRANSFERS
Transfers before, during and immediately after the season.

In (19)				Out (22)
Date	Player	Details	Fee	Date	Player	Details	Fee
Jun 17, 2017	Jason Cummings	Bought		Jul 17, 2017	Gboly Ariyibi	Loan out
Jul 01, 2017	Yassine En-Neyah	Bought		Jul 18, 2017	Jorge Grant	Loan out
Jul 05, 2017	Barrie McKay	Bought	£500,000	Jul 31, 2017	Alex Iacovitti	Loan out
Jul 21, 2017	Daryl Murphy	Bought		Aug 04, 2017	Ryan Yates	Loan out
Jul 27, 2017	Andreas Bouchalakis	Bought		Aug 15, 2017	Vladimir Stojkovic	Released
Jul 28, 2017	Tendayi Darikwa	Bought		Aug 30, 2017	Thomas Lam	Loan out
Aug 04, 2017	Kieran Dowell	Loan In		Sep 29, 2017	Jordan Wright	Loan Out
Aug 22, 2017	Liam Bridcutt	Bought	£1,000,000	Oct 28, 2017	Dimitar Evtimov	Loan out
Jan 31, 2018	Adlene Guedioura	Bought		Jan 15, 2018	Jason Cummings	Loan out
Jan 31, 2018	Ashkan Dejagah	Bought		Jan 19, 2018	Gboly Ariyibi	Loan out
Jan 31, 2018	Costel Pantilimon	Loan In		Jan 31, 2018	Jamie Ward	Loan out
Jan 31, 2018	Jack Colback	Loan In		Jan 31, 2018	Matt Mills	Released
Jan 31, 2018	Joe Lolley	Bought		Jan 31, 2018	Muzzy Carayol	Released
Jan 31, 2018	Lee Tomlin	Loan In		Jan 31, 2018	Stephen Henderson	Loan out
Jan 31, 2018	Tobias Figueiredo	Loan In		Jan 31, 2018	Tyler Walker	Loan out
Feb 05, 2018	Ben Watson	Bought		Jan 31, 2018	Zach Clough	Loan out
Feb 07, 2018	Stefanos Kapino	Bought		Feb 02, 2018	Armand Traore	Loan out
Feb 08, 2018	Juan Fuentes	Bought		May 15, 2018	Ashkan Dejagah	Released
Jul 20, 2018	Jack Colback	Loan In		May 15, 2018	Chris Cohen	Retired
				May 15, 2018	David Vaughan	Released
				May 15, 2018	Jack Hobbs	Released
				Jul 31, 2018	Barrie McKay	Sold

SQUAD

			Season Record (Competitive Games only)
Pos	Num	Player	P	W	D	L	Goals	Yellows	Reds	Went Off	Came On	Unused Sub	Notes
GK		Vladimir Stojkovic											Left in August to join Partizan
GK	1	Costel Pantilimon	13	3	5	5		1					Joined on Jan 31 on loan from Watford; returned at end of season
GK	26	Dimitar Evtimov	1	1								7	Released at end of season
GK	30	Stephen Henderson	1			1						25	On loan to Portsmouth from Jan 31
GK	33	Stefanos Kapino	4	1	1	2						11	Joined on Feb 8th on free transfer
GK	43	Jordan Smith	32	13	2	17						8
D		Alex Iacovitti											On loan to Forest Green Rovers for the 2017-18 season
D	2	Eric Lichaj	28	11	3	14	3	3	1	1	1	15	Left to join Hull at end of season
D	3	Tobias Figueiredo	12	3	5	4		5		1		2	Joined on loan from Sporting CP on Jan 31
D	5	Matt Mills	14	7		7		4		1	2	11	Released on Jan 31
D	6	Armand Traore	19	8	1	10		3		2	3	5	On loan to Cardiff City from Jan 31
D	7	Liam Bridcutt	27	10	3	14	1	9		3	3	8	Joined from Leeds on Aug 22nd
D	11	Ben Osborn	51	18	8	25	4	3		6	5
D	27	Tendayi Darikwa	32	12	6	14	1	6		1	3	9	Joined from Burnley at the start of the season
D	28	Thomas Lam											On loan to FC Twente from Aug 30, 2017 to the end of the season
D	29	Juan Fuentes	1	1						1		1	Joined on Feb 8th on free transfer
D	42	Joe Worrall	35	14	2	19	1	6	1		3	6
M		Ryan Yates											On loan to Notts County for the season
M		Toby Edser
M	4	Michael Mancienne	33	13	3	17		4		2	2	12	Left at end of season
M	5	Adlene Guedioura	11	4	2	5		1		5	5	5	Re-joined Forest on Jan 31, 2018
M	13	Danny Fox	27	9	6	12		9		3		3
M	14	Matty Cash	25	6	8	11	2	1		3	9	4
M	15	Lee Tomlin	15	4	5	6	4	3		8	3		Joined on Jan 31 on loan from Cardiff City; returned at end of season
M	18	Jack Colback	16	3	6	7	1	5		1		1	Joined on Jan 31 on loan from Newcastle United; returned at end of season
M	20	Kieran Dowell	43	15	7	21	10	5		16	7	3	Joined on loan from Everton for the season
M	21	Ashkan Dejagah	1			1					1		Joined on Jan 31 on free transfer
M	23	Joe Lolley	16	4	6	6	3	1		4	3		Joined on Jan 31 from Huddersfield
M	24	David Vaughan	16	7	1	8		4		8	1	2
M	25	Jack Hobbs	5	2		3		1			1	1
M	31	Andreas Bouchalakis	24	11	2	11	2	1		10	9	14
M	32	Ben Watson	14	4	5	5		3		2		1	Joined on Feb 5th as free agent
F		Gboly Ariyibi
F		Jorge Grant											On loan to Notts County for the whole season
F		Lica											Left on Aug 31 after contract terminated
F	8	Chris Cohen	2	2							1	1
F	9	Daryl Murphy	28	11	5	12	7			7	6	1
F	10	Barrie McKay	28	11	1	16	5			16	6	9	Joined from Rangers at beginning of the season; left to join Swansea at the end
F	16	Zach Clough	17	7		10				4	11	14	On loan to Bolton Wanderers from Jan 31
F	17	Ben Brereton	39	12	7	20	6	6		15	11	8
F	18	Muzzy Carayol	16	4	2	10	2	1		3	12	7	Released on Jan 31
F	19	Jamie Ward	8	2	1	5		1			8	3	On loan to Cardiff City from Jan 31
F	34	Tyler Walker	16	6	1	9	4	2		4	8	4	On loan to Bolton Wanderers from Jan 31
F	35	Jason Cummings	17	6		11	4	1		8	7	8
F	39	Apostolos Vellios	13	3	2	8	2			4	8	9

GOALSCORERS

Competitive goals only

Goals	Player	Games
10	Kieran Dowell	43
7	Daryl Murphy	28
6	Ben Brereton	39
5	Barrie McKay	28
4	Ben Osborn	51
4	Jason Cummings	17
4	Lee Tomlin	15
4	Tyler Walker	16
3	Eric Lichaj	28
3	Joe Lolley	16
2	Andreas Bouchalakis	24
2	Apostolos Vellios	13
2	Matty Cash	25
2	Muzzy Carayol	16
1	Jack Colback	16
1	Joe Worrall	35
1	Liam Bridcutt	27
1	Tendayi Darikwa	32

LEAGUE DOUBLES
Home and away victories for the season

2017-18

Opponent	Date	H/A	Score	Date	H/A	Score
Queens Park Rangers	Sat Nov 04, 2017	H	4-0	Sat Feb 24, 2018	A	5-2