Objectives in both half from Igor Jesus and Taiwo Awoniyi noticed Nottingham Forest restore their five-point hole above resurgent West Ham and the Premier League relegation zone with a doubtlessly very important 2-0 win at Brentford.
Sean Dyche joins Pep Guardiola as simply the second visiting supervisor to win on the Gtech Neighborhood Stadium this season with a victory underpinned by his aspect’s defensive displaying following Jesus’ early opener, with Awoniyi securing the factors on the break 10 minutes from time.
Within the battle of two Brazilian Igors in assault, it was the unfancied Jesus who received the day along with his first league objective since December 3, his very good chest and end after 12 minutes appearing as a catalyst for Forest who might simply have gone on to double their benefit in a dominant opening half hour.
As soon as their momentum light, Brentford had a lot of probabilities to stage, with Dango Ouattara – an early substitute for the injured Mikkel Damsgaard – denied by Matz Sels when he ought to have equalised.
Sepp van den Berg, one other first-half introduction after Kristoffer Ajer was compelled off, virtually levelled on the stroke of half-time from a protracted throw however nodded down and simply vast of the close to submit.
Forest dropped additional and additional again as Brentford’s mounting strain continued after half-time however, as probabilities did not materialise, the hosts’ perception visibly seeped away as time started to expire to proceed their wonderful residence kind.
As an alternative, Forest punished them in scientific vogue as substitute Awoniyi turned their solely contact within the opposition field of the second half right into a second objective 10 minutes from time after outpacing Van den Berg on the break.
Taiwo Awoniyi celebrates after doubling Nottingham Forest’s lead
On a day which started with the Bees holding hope of cementing their European push, they as an alternative stay exterior the highest seven and can drop to ninth if Everton beat Leeds on Monday Evening Soccer.
Evaluation: Not fairly – however totally deserved
Sky Sports activities’ Ron Walker on the Gtech Neighborhood Stadium:
“As Rob Green put it, Nottingham Forest were unspectacular but effective. At the moment, that will do with West Ham breathing down their necks and the relegation zone looming all too large.
“A shocking pair of performances from Murillo and Nikola Milenkovic, who appeared to search out themselves on the tip of each one in all Brentford’s 35 crosses into the field, underpinned a victory which owed all the pieces to arduous work and two moments of high quality when it actually mattered.
“The timing of those goals, book-ending the game as they did, could not have been much better and showed up a Brentford attack which laboured but had few ideas to combat the visitors’ low block.
“In defence of Keith Andrews, his trigger was not aided by the lack of artistic lynchpin Damsgaard earlier than half-time, however even with out him the hosts ran out of concepts lengthy earlier than full-time.
“Ultimately, though the manner of Forest’s victory was far from pretty Andrews can have few complaints on a day when Sels had one save to make across 90 minutes.”
