PREMIER LEAGUE : NOTTINGHAM FOREST VS BRENTFORD – 17/08/2025 (PHOTO – CAN ANYONE TELL CHRIS WOOD SCORED A BRACE😂)

PREMIER LEAGUE – NOTTINGHAM FOREST VS BRENTFORD – 17/08/2025

NOTTINGHAM FOREST MADE 404 PASSES, WITH AN 82% PASS ACCURACY, (HAD 55% POSSESSION), 5 CORNERS, AND 11 SHOTS WITH 5 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A SUPERB BRACE FROM CHRIS WOOD, WITH AN EARLY OPENER AT 5 MINS., (BELOW)

FOLLOWED BY A CRACKING HEADER FROM TEAM-MATE DAN NDOYE ON HIS DEBUT, JUST AT 42 MINS! (BELOW)

AND THEN THE SECOND GOAL OF CHRIS WOOD’S BRILLIANT BRACE JUST BEFORE HALF-TIME AT 45 +2 MINS. (BELOW)

MEANING THAT BY HALF-TIME, FOREST WERE ALREADY 3 – 0 UP!

BRENTFORD MADE 330 PASSES, WITH A 77% PASS ACCURACY, HAD 5 CORNERS, AND 10 SHOTS WITH 3 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A CLINICAL PENALTY FROM IGOR THIAGO AT 78 MINS., HIS FIRST GOAL OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE! (BELOW)

SO THIS EXCITING MATCH CULMINATED IN A 3 – 1 WIN TO NOTTINGHAM FOREST!

NOTTINGHAM FOREST’S MANAGER NUNO ESPIRITO SANTO SPOKE AFTER THE MATCH SAYING:-

“VERY PLEASED WITH HOW WE STARTED THE GAME AND THE FOOTBALL WE PLAYED.  WE WERE SOLID IN OUR DEFENDING.  IT WAS A VERY GOOD FIRST-HALF.  THE COMBINATIONS WERE REALLY GOOD, BEAUTIFUL GOALS.”

IT WAS NEW MANAGER KEITH ANDREW’S DEBUT MATCH AS BOSS, AND HE SAID AFTERWARDS:-

“I THOUGHT THERE WAS A LITTLE NAIVETY IN OUR GAME IN THE FIRST-HALF, WHICH REALLY COST US FROM AREAS WHERE WE KNEW THEY WOULD BE STRONG, SET-PIECES, TRANSITIONS WITH THE SECOND WOOD GOAL, SO YEAH, VERY DISAPPOINTING IN THE FIRST-HALF.  I SAID TO THE PLAYER’S AT HALF-TIME AND I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT NOW, LIKE I DID THEN, THAT 45 MINUTES DOESN’T DEFINE US AS A GROUP.  DID WE STRUGGLE?  YEAH, WE ABSOLUTELY DID AT TIMES.  AND THEY PUNISHED US LIKE THEY DO, AND LIKE THEY’VE SHOWN THEY DO, CONSISTENTLY IF OPPORTUNITIES ARISE FROM THE OPPOSITION NOT DOING THINGS RIGHT,  WE DIDN’T DO THINGS RIGHT IN THE FIRST-HALF, BUT THE SECOND-HALF, IT SHOWED A LOT OF WHAT WE’RE ABOUT.”

BY AMANDA WATERS