Vitor Pereira stays looking out for his first league win accountable for Nottingham Forest after his aspect fell to a 2-1 defeat in opposition to Brighton.
A frantic opening quarter-hour noticed all three objectives, with Diego Gomez and Danny Welbeck scoring both aspect of a Morgan Gibbs-White magnificence to safe the three factors for the Seagulls.
With Burnley, West Ham and Tottenham all dropping this weekend, the defeat meant that Forest didn’t make any headway on their relegation rivals, with simply 10 video games left within the Premier League marketing campaign.
Having ended a run of six video games and not using a win in opposition to Brentford final trip, Fabian Hurzeler’s males emerged stuffed with confidence and got here flying out of the traps. Their early dominance paid off as Gomez completely lower throughout the ball from the nook of the penalty space to arrow one contained in the far submit for a deserved lead.
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‘Magnificent’ Diego Gomez volley fires Brighton in entrance in opposition to Nottingham Forest!
That appeared to wake Forest up, as they responded in some type. Igor Jesus’s immaculate dummy on the far aspect unlocked the Brighton defence earlier than he discovered Gibbs-White, who expertly curled dwelling from distance previous Bart Verbruggen.
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Gibbs-White scores dazzling equaliser for Nottingham Forest in opposition to Brighton within the Premier League
Any hope Pereira might have had of that inspiring his aspect shortly diminished although, as inside two minutes Welbeck added his eleventh objective of the season to revive the hosts’ benefit.
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Danny Welbeck’s strike sees Brighton again into the lead in opposition to Nottingham Forest of their Premier League conflict!
Brighton continued to push for a 3rd, however had been unable to get previous Matz Sels, providing the guests an opportunity to profit from a number of harmful counter-attacks.
Nonetheless, the equaliser eluded Pereira’s males, which means that Forest have managed only one objective from 66 makes an attempt over their final three Premier League video games.
Forest stay seventeenth within the Premier League, failing to leapfrog Tottenham, who fell to defeat at Fulham. In the meantime, Brighton edge nearer to the highest half as their second consecutive win means they climb to eleventh.
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