Nottingham Forest vs Fulham LIVE: Premier League result, final score and reaction
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Nottingham Forest squandered a lead for the second successive Premier League game as they slipped to a 3-2 home defeat by Fulham in the Premier League.
Taiwo Awoniyi gave Forest the perfect start when he headed them in front after 11 minutes from a Ryan Yates corner, but Fulham struck three times in six minutes early in the second half to turn the match on its head.
Tosin Adarabioyo headed the equaliser in the 54th minute from a Willian cross and three minutes later Joao Palhinha found the top corner with a superb left-footed effort. Forest were at sixes and sevens and Fulham scored again when Harrison Reed fired home from a Bobby De Cordova-Reid cross.
Lewis O’Brien gave Forest hope with a 77th-minute effort but Steve Cooper’s side could not salvage a point.
Nottingham Forest vs Fulham
Yellow Card João Maria Lobo Alves Palhinha Gonçalves
Nottingham Forest vs Fulham
Goal João Maria Lobo Alves Palhinha Gonçalves
Nottingham Forest vs Fulham
Fulham are keeping the pressure on here as Diop plays a good long ball over the top for Reed to chase. He fizzes a low cross into Mitrovic, but he sees his shot blocked.
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