Nottingham Forest moved up to third place in the Premier League by beating Brentford, with goals from Ola Aina and Anthony Elanga (0-2).
The ‘Tricky Trees’ have won three in a row and seven of the last ten games and they have not suffered even at one of the craziest grounds in the Premier, Brentford, where the locals have not been kept without a goal in sight since last May . 4 in a goalless draw against Fulham.
Nuno Espirito Santo’s side made it 0-1 in the 38th minute, when Chris Wood missed a low cross from Neco Williams, but Aina did at the far post, beating Mark Flekken with an off-target shot.
Well into the second half and after Matz Sels had kept a clean sheet for Forest with little intervention, Elanga took advantage of a serious error in control by Keane Lewis-Potter, took the ball from him and scored next to the post to seal the match. .
After 17 games, Forest have not dropped from the top of the table and are third, with 31 points, one more than Arsenal and three more than Aston Villa. Only Chelsea and Liverpool are above, with 34 and 36 points, but with one and two games in hand respectively.
Brentford remains twelfth with 23 units.
match lineup
1
20
23
6
22
16
27
24
11
19
7
26
34
7
4
5
31
10
8
11
21
14
Gtech Community Stadium
Matz Sels26
66′
Ola Aina34
37′
Neco Williams7
91′
Morato4
Murillo5
26′
39′
Nikola Milenkovic31
66′
Morgan Gibbs-White10
54′
74′
86′
Elliot Anderson8
63′
56′
Chris Wood11
91′
Anthony Elanga21
50′
63′
80′
Callum Hudson-Odoi14
Replacements
Carlos Miguel33
Harry Toffolo15
91′
66′
95′
Alex Moreno19
Willy-Arnaud Boly30
80′
Nicolas Dominguez16
63′
83′
James Ward-Prowse18
95′
Ryan Yates22
63′
66′
Taiwo Awoniyi9
91′
Jota Silva20
74′
78′
coach
Thomas Frank
Nuno Herlander Simões Espírito Santo
Source: La Verdad
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