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Nottingham Forest made it six Premier League wins in a row as they noticed off a much-improved Wolves facet to maneuver stage on factors with second-placed Arsenal.
Goalkeeper Matz Sels made some superb saves to maintain Wolves out in a brilliant first-half displaying and on the different finish Morgan Gibbs-White, Chris Wooden and Taiwo Awoniyi all scored after trademark counter assaults.
Morgan Gibbs-White silences Wolves on the Molineux Stadium 🤫 pic.twitter.com/Ss7R20N6DN
— Sky Sports activities Premier League (@SkySportsPL) January 6, 2025
Wolves supervisor Vitor Pereira will take coronary heart from the actual fact his facet created so many good possibilities however they may not take them and Forest have been masterful in ending their alternatives.
Former Wolves boss Nuno Esprito Santo has now seen his facet take the lead in 16 of their 20 league video games and they’re simply six factors behind Liverpool – who they host subsequent week.
Scores objectives. pic.twitter.com/P6gXfX2dVy
— Nottingham Forest (@NFFC) January 6, 2025
With new England supervisor Thomas Tuchel within the stands, Forest marked the fiftieth anniversary of the appointment of their biggest supervisor Brian Clough in type.
An Elliot Anderson move forwards discovered Gibbs-White who ran on the Wolves defence, swapped passes with Anthony Elanga and located the underside nook through a deflection.
The previous Wolves man had been getting grief since kick-off from the house followers and celebrated by placing his fingers in his ears.
An unbelievable Murillo block on the road prevented Jorgen Strand Larsen from equalising after a superb Hwang Hee-chan run, earlier than Sels made an important save from Rodrigo Gomes’ strike.
One other nice save denied Larsen’s header from shut vary earlier than Forest thought that they had a penalty for handball however a VAR test reprieved Rayan Ait-Nouri.
A protracted ball forwards then allowed Callum Hudson-Odoi to hurry down the left and his cutback discovered Wooden, who turned in his twelfth aim of the season.
Larsen had one other good effort saved after the break however Forest managed the sport beautifully to win but once more – with sub Awoniyi available to faucet in James Ward-Prowse’s move after one other electrical break proper on the finish.
