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 gained every of their earlier three matches previous to Sunday’s sport by three targets.
Brighton dominated the opening 20 minutes however didn’t register any of their photographs on the right track, earlier than Forest started to seek out their ft.
It had been a superb 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 dwelling from shut vary.
Maxim De Cuyper breaks the impasse to provide Brighton the lead in opposition to Nottingham Forest.
Forest spent a lot of the second half looking for an equaliser – racking up 11 photographs to Brighton’s 4 – however have been undone by some poor defending from Morato.
He tried to play a ball backwards below strain inside his personal field, just for Brajan Gruda to latch onto it and try to spherical Sels. The ‘keeper almost did sufficient however the ball fell kindly to 19-year-old Stefanos Tzimas to poke dwelling.
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 an important 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 have been unable to seek out the innovative that had served them so properly in current matches.
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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