Everton vs Nottingham Forest LIVE: Premier League result, final score and reaction
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Goals from Chris Wood and Morgan Gibbs-White gave Nottingham Forest a 2-0 win over Everton on Sunday to move up to the heady heights of second in the Premier League after another superb performance away from home.
The win gives Forest 37 points after 19 games, five behind leaders Liverpool, who have two games in hand and who face West Ham United later on Sunday, and one ahead of third-placed Arsenal, who are not in action again until New Year’s Day.
The visitors took the lead in the 15th minute as Chris Wood nodded a long ball to Anthony Elanga, and the Swedish winger headed it back into his path, teeing Wood up to deftly lift it over the advancing Jordan Pickford and into the net.
Gibbs-White made it two on the hour mark as Wood rescued a broken-down counter-attack by sliding the ball through to him in the penalty area to fire home, and Everton could not find their way back into the game as their four-match unbeaten run came to an end.
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Forest could have made it three-nil and with it sealed the three points but Pickford does well to deny Sosa on two occassions and Williams from close-range.
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Lindstrom collects the ball 20 yards out and looks to curl an effort into the net but he gets too much on his strike and it goes wide of the target.
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This second half has continued in the same way the first half played out. Everton are lacking any threat going forward and Forest are looking comfortable defensively. Still a long way to go in this game though.
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Branthwaite flies into a tackle with Gibbs-White and catches the midfielder. The defender receives a yellow card.
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It is a fine run forward from Gibbs-White but his final shot is wild and ends up flying over the crossbar.
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Gibbs-White tries a dinked free-kick looking for Wood which Everton initially clear. The ball comes back into the box and Forest are appealing for a penalty for a handball. VAR checks the incident but the game swiftly resumes.
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