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Commentary
6¹An outswinging corner was headed into the arms of the Brentford 'keeper by ABRAHAM.
6¹GHODDOS beat McGINN and drove the ball to HICKEY who fired his effort wide.
7¹A corner was collected by McGINN who turned an effort wide.
9¹A good effort from BARNES scraped the top of the crossbar.
10¹A mix up in the Nottingham Forest defence enabled ABLINE to hammer an effort over the bar.
14¹The bemused 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from BARNES fell just wide.
16¹McGINN shot wide.
19¹GOAL!! A neat one-two left RICHARLISON clear and he made no mistake by instinctively floating the ball beyond the oncoming Brentford 'keeper. (1-0 Nottingham Forest)
21¹The Nottingham Forest 'keeper saved a curling effort from ABLINE.
26¹GOAL!! After KOVACIC was pulled to the ground the referee waved play-on and McGINN went on to comfortably score. (2-0 Nottingham Forest)
34¹McGINN ran onto a wonderful ball from BARNES but toe-poked his effort wide.
38¹NØRGAARD made space on the left and touched the ball to TONI who fired the ball wide.
39¹TOMORI's shot beat the Nottingham Forest 'keeper but rebounded off the Nottingham Forest upright.
43¹A delightful save prevented GHODDOS from scoring an exceptional goal.
43¹MILENKOVIC fired a looping shot wide from twenty yards out.
2²A useful ball from ZAPPACOSTA on the left found BARNES who mishit his effort just beyond the near post.
5²BARNES booted the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area.
8²A cynical challenge on AJER by ABRAHAM results in a booking.
15²MAIGNAN dived to his left to save a lovely drive from Brentford's GHODDOS.
29²ABRAHAM snapped at a simple chance.
31²A thirty yard drive from RICHARLISON caused the Brentford 'keeper no problem.
31²AKÉ brought the ball round AJER and stroked a poor shot over the bar.
44²A cross from BARNES left AKÉ in lots of space but he rushed his shot.

 
Nottingham Forest
 
League position: 11
Home league form: LWXX
Overall league form: LLWXLXWW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
(c)Mike MAIGNAN7½17½Ellery BALCOMBE
Davide ZAPPACOSTA7 25½EMERSON Aparecido
Nathan AKÉ8 37 Aaron HICKEY
Mateo KOVACIC7½47½Christian NØRGAARD(c)
Nikola MILENKOVIC6½57 Fikayo TOMORI
Shea CHARLES6½66½Kristoffer AJER
Julian BRANDT6 76 Mikkel DAMSGAARD
Harvey BARNES7½86½Yoane WISSA
(p)Tammy ABRAHAM7 96 Matthis ABLINE(p)
(f)John McGINN6½106½Saman GHODDOS(f)
RICHARLISON de Andrade6½116 TONI
Manager
Matt CLARKE  12  Mathias JENSEN
David RAYA  13  Hugo KETO
Christian ERIKSEN  14  Felix NMECHA
ISCO  15  Vitaly JANELT
Timo WERNER  16  Sergi CANÓS
 
Brentford
 
League position: 18
Away league form: LXLL
Overall league form: XLLXWXLL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Nottingham Forest 2 Brentford 0
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 39,993, Stadium: City Ground, Referee: Keith Hill 5½)

Richarlison 19¹, McGinn 26¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
  
  
Abraham 8² 
10
42
00
44
104
148
13
56%44%
Man of the match: Nathan Aké