Nottingham Forest vs Fulham LIVE: Premier League result, final score and reaction
Nottingham Forest 3-1 Fulham: Three first-half goals earned the hosts a precious win
Three first-half goals earned Nottingham Forest a vital 3-1 victory over Fulham in their battle to stay away from the Premier League relegation zone.
The hosts were irrepressible in the first period with Callum Hudson-Odoi opening the scoring after nine minutes and Chris Wood doubling Forest’s advantage in the 19th minute.
Stunned Fulham manager Marco Silva made a triple substitution but it got worse for the visitors before the interval as the outstanding Morgan Gibbs-White made it 3-0 in stoppage time with a clinical finish.
Fulham reacted well in the second half and threw themselves a lifeline when Tosin Adarabioyo headed in from a corner.
Both sides hit the woodwork but despite a few jitters Forest held firm to move to 25 points, three ahead of Luton Town who occupy the last relegation place.
Nottingham Forest vs Fulham
Nottingham Forest have alternated between losing (five) and not losing (three wins and a draw) in their nine midweek Premier League games since the start of last season. They lost their last such match 2-1 against Arsenal in January, but are already two goals to the good this time around!
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WIDE!!! How on earth are Forest not 3-0 up?? Elanga and Gibbs-White play a defence-splitting one-two on the edge of Fulham's box, allowing the former space to race through on goal. He's only got Leno to beat from close range, but drags his effort wide, clipping the far post with the goal at his mercy!
Nottingham Forest vs Fulham
It's three goals in the last three games for Wood, taking his tally to 11 for the season as Forest's leading striker. It's his longest goalscoring streak since a run of four between September 2020 to and July 2020 amidst an injury-hit campaign at Burnley.
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Gibbs-White looks to release Elanga into space down the right, but Robinson sprints back in cover to dispossess the Swede and alleviate some of the pressure on Leno's goal.
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Aina's long throw into the Fulham box is only half-cleared by the visitors and ricochets off Elanga into the path of Yates. He cuts the ball back from the byline, but Adarabioyo's block results in a corner to the hosts.
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SAVED!!! Another sensational Gibbs-White touch takes him beyond Adarabioyo and into the final third. Racing through the retreating Fulham defence, he passes left to Hudson-Odoi in space, but the goalscorer takes too long to get a shot away and Leno makes the save once he does!!
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