Brentford vs Nottingham Forest LIVE: Premier League result, final score and reaction
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Brentford beat Nottingham Forest 2-1 at home in the Premier League on Saturday after Ivan Toney and Josh Dasilva scored late second-half goals to leave the visitors a point above the relegation zone.
The result leaves Forest in 17th with 30 points, above 18th-placed Leicester City who have a game in hand. Brentford are ninth with 50 points.
It was Brentford who applied the early pressure as Forest keeper Keylor Navas and his defensive line stood firm to deny the home side who struggled in the final third in the first half.
Forest were well and truly under the cosh but midfielder Danilo scored for the visitors with the last kick of the half from six yards out after latching on to a heavily deflected shot from Morgan Gibbs-White.
After struggling for most of the second half, Brentford’s equaliser finally came in the 82nd minute when Toney curled a free kick through the wall and beat Navas as the ball went in off the post for the English striker’s 20th league goal.
Dasilva then settled the contest with a powerful shot from a tight angle in the 93rd minute that beat Navas, with VAR confirming Yoane Wissa was onside and not interfering with play.
Brentford vs Nottingham Forest
GREAT SAVE! Navas makes a potentially point-saving stop! After Ghoddos chests down to fellow substitute Onyeka on the edge of the box, the latter's low strike deflects off Wissa and dramatically changes course. Forest's veteran goalkeeper reacts sharply to dive down and keep the ball out of his goal!
Brentford vs Nottingham Forest
Danilo is clutching his hamstring as he hobbles to the touchline, so perhaps it is a muscular injury rather than cramp. Either way, he will struggle to continue as the game gets back under way.
Brentford vs Nottingham Forest
After the ball bobbles around dangerously on the edge of Brentford's box, Danilo swings and misses at an attempted shot and then drops back to the deck with an apparently painful case of cramp. The action comes to a halt.
Brentford vs Nottingham Forest
Toney has now found the net in each of his three competitive appearances against Nottingham Forest, and today's goal sees him become just the second Brentford player to score 20 times in a top-flight campaign.
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