Jamie Clapham scored the all-important winner with a sweet left foot shot from 20 yards out which went in off the post twelve minutes from time.
Forest: Roche, James, Perch, Beaumont, Hurren, Morgan, Cash, Gardner, Wilmet, Mullarkey, Bopp. Subs: Handbury, Lukic, Litchfield, Hanson, Hughes.
Blues: Doyle, Tebily, Sadler, Oji, Painter, Clapham, Kilkenny, Clemence, Curtis, Till, Motteram. Subs: Dormand, Parratt, Alsop, Hall, Birley.