Nottingham Forest 5-3 Fulham (2014-15 Championship)

Wed 17 Sept 2014 19:45	Nottingham Forest	(2) 5-3 (1)	Fulham	City Ground, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Attendance: 22,572 Referee: Darren Deadman
	Assombalonga  9'  21' (pen)  79' Antonio  77' Paterson  89'	Report	McCormack  31'  65' Rodallega  51'

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NOTTINGHAM FOREST (4-2-3-1) GK 1 Karl Darlow DR 17 Jack Hunt DC 4 Michael Mancienne (c) DC 13 Danny Fox DL 2 Eric Lichaj 56' DM 32 Robert Tesche 90' DM 38 Ben Osborn 69' AMR 27 Chris Burke AMC 10 Henri Lansbury AML 18 Michail Antonio ST 9 Britt Assombalonga Substitutes: GK 29 Dorus de Vries DF 6 Kelvin Wilson 56' DF 16 Jamaal Lascelles 90' 90+5' MF 24 David Vaughan MF 30 Stephen McLaughlin FW 14 Lars Veldwijk FW 21 Jamie Paterson 69' 90' Manager: Stuart Pearce

FULHAM (4-4-2) GK 1 Gábor Király DR 6 Nikolay Bodurov 69' DC 4 Shaun Hutchinson 20' 46' DC 33 Dan Burn 20' DL 5 Fernando Amorebieta 58' MR 2 Tim Hoogland MC 8 Scott Parker (c) 73' MC 26 Mark Fotheringham 50' 81' ML 3 Kostas Stafylidis ST 20 Hugo Rodallega ST 44 Ross McCormack Substitutes: GK 40 Marcus Bettinelli DF 32 Sean Kavanagh MF 7 Thomas Eisfeld MF 14 Patrick Roberts 81' MF 27 George Williams MF 28 Emerson Hyndman MF 30 Chris David 46' Manager: Felix Magath

Assistant referees: Rob Merchant Jason Tyas Fourth official: Chris Kavanagh Previous Meeting: Nottingham Forest 2-4 Fulham (2004-05 League Cup 4th Round) (10 Nov 2004) Following Meeting: Fulham 3-2 Nottingham Forest (2014-15 Championship) (21 Jan 2015) Trivia This was Felix Magath's last match in charge before his sacking the following afternoon Fulham later fined £5,000 by the FA after the players' reaction to the penalty decision in the 20th minute Statistics Nottingham Forest Fulham Possession 53% 47% Shots on target 5 7 Shots off target 6 6 Shots blocked 3 0 Corner kicks 1 7 Fouls conceded 11 11 Offsides 3 1 Yellow cards 2 6 Red cards 0 0 Total passes 427 381 Passing success 73% 72% Tackles 17 17 Tackles success 82% 94% Total crosses 20 17 Successful crosses 45% 12% Interceptions 4 18 Clearances 31 28 Images 1-0: Britt Assombalonga open the scoring with Nottm Forest's first attempt on goal. A free-kick swing in from the left found Assombalonga at the near post and he headed down into the corner of the net, despite appeals from Fulham players saying he had handled the ball in Shaun Hutchinson was adjudged to have brought down a player just inside the area, despite clearly winning the ball 2-0: Assombalonga grabs his second shortly after from the penalty spot, sending a shot past Király, who dived the right way to his right but could not prevent the goal 2-1: Ross McCormack scores his first league goal for Fulham just before half-time after a sweetly struck free kick with curve went around the defensive wall and out of reach of the helpless Federici 2-2: Fulham struck level on 51 minutes. Fernando Amorebieta played in a great ball from deep on the left, which found Hugo Rodallega, who slotted in his first goal of the season 2-3: Hugo Rodallega played in Ross McCormack for his second of the evening, putting the visitors ahead, albeit through a fortunate deflection 3-3: Not long afterwards, Michail Antonio levelled the tie for the hosts. Upon a long ball played in to him, he controlled well before pivoting and slotting past Király 4-3: In what had become a thrilling match, Assombalonga grabbed his hat-trick on 79 minutes after a rebound from a header off the post left him with a simple tap in 5-3: Fulham's misery was complete with one minute of normal time remaining. Substitute Jamie Paterson found space in the box before skipping beyond Dan Burn and firing home Highlights 2014-15 season Pre-season: East Fife (a) • Rangers (a) • Motherwell (a) • Crawley (a) • DC United (n) • Çaykur Rizespor (n) Additional friendlies: Saudi Arabia (h) • Cardiff XI (h) • West Ham XI (a) Championship: Ipswich (a) • Millwall (h) • Wolves (h) • Derby (a) • Cardiff (h) • Reading (a) • Nottm Forest (a) • Blackburn (h) • Birmingham (a) • Bolton (h) • Middlesbrough (a) • Norwich (h) • Rotherham (a) • Charlton (h) • Wigan (a) • Blackpool (h) • Huddersfield (h) • Brentford (a) • Brighton (a) • Watford (h) • Leeds (a) • Sheff Wed (h) • Bournemouth (a) • Brighton (h) • Cardiff (a) • Reading (h) • Nottm Forest (h) • Blackburn (a) • Birmingham (h) • Bolton (a) • Ipswich (h) • Millwall (a) • Wolves (a) • Derby (h) • Watford (a) • Bournemouth (h) • Sheff Wed (a) • Leeds (h) • Huddersfield (a) • Brentford (h) • Charlton (a) • Wigan (h) • Rotherham (h) • Blackpool (a) • Middlesbrough (h) • Norwich (a) FA Cup: 3rd round: Wolves (h) • Replay: Wolves (a) • 4th round: Sunderland (a) • Replay: Sunderland (h) League Cup: 2nd round: Brentford (a) • 3rd round: Doncaster (h) • 4th round: Derby (h)