Nottingham Forest v Fulham

MATCH REPORT
BRISTOL CITY 1 - 2 FOREST
Tuesday, 19th October 2021 | Kick-off 7.45pm | Ashton Gate | Sky Bet Championship
Attendance: 18,325 including 1,514 Forest supporters
Forest claimed their fourth
consecutive win in dramatic
fashion with an injury time
double from substitute Lyle
Taylor at Ashton Gate.
Steve Cooper made just one
change to the 18 against
Blackpool with James Garner
replacing Jack Colback on an
unseasonably warm but extremely
wet West Country evening.
Brennan Johnson was a continual
threat on the right in the first half.
Early on he was released by Lewis
Grabban but couldn’t connect
cleanly with his shot; then he cut
onto his left foot but Dan Bentley
made the save; and, after half an
hour, he dispossessed Nathan Baker,
again cut in on his left foot, but hit
the inside of Bentley’s far post.
Bristol City, who started the match
above The Reds but with the
unenviable record of no wins in 16
at home, also had their moments,
with Andreas Weimann heading
straight at Brice Samba and Alex
Scott screwing his shot wide from
just six yards.
Grabban again released
Johnson in the inside right and he
rounded Bentley but his shot was
deflected to Philip Zinckernagel
who was unable to control with the
keeper stranded.
Five minutes before the break,
The Robins took the lead against
the run of play. A long kick from
Bentley was flicked on by ex-Derby
man Chris Martin, and when Nahki
Wells’ shot from the edge of the
box was parried by Samba, the
18-year old Scott smashed the
rebound into the empty net for his
first senior goal.
Forest dominated the possession
in the second half, forcing a
succession of corners and keeping
Nigel Pearson’s men on the back
foot, as the rain became torrential
in the West Country.
The hosts were still a threat
coming forward, though, with
Scott denied a penalty and
Samba pushing a fierce Wells shot
onto the post.
Grabban had a goal disallowed for
offside and The Reds continued
to push until, entering injury time,
a slide rule pass from Ryan Yates
released Djed Spence who was
upended by Nathan Baker.
Substitute Lyle Taylor coolly
stepped up and sent Dan Bentley
the wrong way from the spot.
The centre forward quickly
retrieved the ball from the net and,
from the kick off, The Reds were
on the hunt for the unlikely winner.
BRISTOL CITY
1 Bentley
22 Kalas
5 Atkinson
17 Baker
6 James
19 Tanner
14 Weimann
36 Scott ■
77’ Palmer
3 Dasilva
9 Martin
80’ Massengo
21 Wells
83’ O’Dowda
Un-used subs:
2 Simpson
12 O’Leary
15 Bakinson
16 Pring
MATCH STATS
34% POSSESSION 66%
9 SHOTS
15
2 SHOTS ON TARGET 6
1 CORNERS
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7 FOULS
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THE TEAMS
FOREST
30 Samba
4 Worrall
3 Figueiredo
66’ Mighten
26 McKenna
2 Spence
22 Yates
37 Garner
15 Lowe
11 Zinckernagel
77’ Lolley
20 Johnson
7 Grabban
81’ Taylor
Un-used subs:
1 Horvath
8 Colback
13 Bong
10 Carvalho
Remarkably, with two minutes of
injury time gone, Joe Lolley’s cross
shot was parried by Bentley and
it was Taylor on hand to bundle
home the rebound to give The
Reds a dramatic and memorable
late victory.
It was The Reds’ fourth away win
in succession, a feat last achieved
back in 1995.
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