Nottingham Forest’s current run of 5 video games unbeaten in all competitions was ended by Brighton because the Seagulls claimed a 2-0 win on the Metropolis Floor.
Since Sean Dyche’s arrival on the finish of October, Forest had misplaced simply as soon as and received every of their earlier three matches previous to Sunday’s recreation by three targets.
Brighton dominated the opening 20 minutes however did not register any of their pictures on the right track, earlier than Forest started to search out their ft.
It had been an excellent spell for the hosts when Brighton made the breakthrough on the stroke of half-time. Maxim De Cuyper was discovered unmarked within the field by Georginio Rutter, and swept residence from shut vary.
Forest spent a lot of the second half looking for an equaliser – racking up 11 pictures to Brighton’s 4 – however had been undone by some poor defending from Morato.
He tried to play a ball backwards underneath strain inside his personal field, just for Brajan Gruda to latch onto it and try and spherical Sels. The ‘keeper almost did sufficient however the ball fell kindly to 19-year-old Stefanos Tzimas to poke residence.
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Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Matz Sels makes an excellent double save to disclaim Brighton a 2-0 lead of their Premier League conflict.
Sels had earlier made a significant double save to maintain out Diego Gomez and Ferdi Kadioglu, earlier than Bart Verbruggen denied Igor Jesus on the different finish. It was Sels who started the assault too, however Forest had been unable to search out the leading edge that had served them so properly in current matches.
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Stefanos Tzimas doubles Brighton’s lead of their Premier League conflict with Nottingham Forest.
Brighton transfer up into fifth with the victory, whereas Forest stay in sixteenth, only a level above the relegation locations.
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