{"id":129420,"date":"2023-10-01T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/?p=129420"},"modified":"2023-10-01T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T20:48:00","slug":"taiwo-awoniyi-nottingham-forest-brentford-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/taiwo-awoniyi-nottingham-forest-brentford-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwo Awoniyi\u2019s Nottingham Forest share spoils with Brentford at City Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taiwo Awoniyi and Nottingham Forest laboured to a 1-1 draw with Brentford in their <a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/premier-league-news\/\">Premier League<\/a> match at the City Ground on Sunday afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After Brentford took the lead, ten-man Forest side needed to step it up and avoid defeat in front of their home fans. On the other hand, Brentford took their Premier League winless run to five games after failing to keep the lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Forest came into this game on the back of a 2-0 loss to Manchester City at Etihad Stadium, while Brentford were well beaten 3-1 by Everton last weekend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Head Coach Steve Cooper made three changes to the side which narrowly lost to Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium last time out, with Callum Hudson-Odoi, Anthony Elanga and Murillo coming in, with the latter making his debut for the club.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Awoniyi\u2019s early goal ruled out for Nottingham Forest<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Reds made a strong start to the match, with Elanga going past Aaron Hickey and the defender was subsequently booked for the foul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the eighth minute, Taiwo Awoniyi thought he had taken the lead after Murillo flicked on Hudson-Odoi\u2019s corner to convert from close-range, but the Nigerian striker\u2019s finish was rightly ruled out for offside.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Taiwo Awoniyi has his goal disallowed for offside, Frank Onyeka features off the bench (21 mins) as 10-man Nottingham Forest hold Brentford to a draw.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFOBRE?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NFOBRE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#PL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rtdCaZ9fsQ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rtdCaZ9fsQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Home of Nigerian Football (@EaglesTrackerNG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EaglesTrackerNG\/status\/1708502573747990975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following the controversy that followed the Spurs v Liverpool match, the lines were drawn correctly and confirmed the offside decision, ensuring that the Bees would not concede inside the opening 10 minutes in successive weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Levelled at the break<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It certainly took Brentford a while to play their way into the contest, but chances were still few and far between for the West Londoners. The ongoing absence of Ivan Toney continued to affect their play, but the Reds would not care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fortunately for Thomas Frank\u2019s side, the first half failed to come alive with no shot on target, as the referee called time on the first half.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Second half comes alive<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brentford made a fine start to the second half, and they were nearly gifted the lead in weird fashion when Yoane Wissa tackled Forest \u2018keeper Matt Turner. The American keeper was fortunate though, as the ball made its way towards goal, but defender Willy Boly was on hand to clear the ball off the line.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moments later, Brentford took the lead. Forest player Moussa Niakhat\u00e9 was dismissed for a second yellow card, before Christian N\u00f8rgaard headed home the resulting free-kick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Bees stepped it up after the goal but it was just for a while. Forest got back on level terms when Nicol\u00e1s Dom\u00ednguez headed home Harry Toffolo\u2019s cross on his home league debut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The home side got back to their shell and decided to defend the game from that point. Despite playing almost the second half with an extra man, the visitors failed to capitalize, even with the luxury of 13 minutes\u2019 injury time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a good result for the home side, while Thomas Frank\u2019s side will be disappointed they could not take advantage and get a win that has evaded them in a while.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nottingham Forest will face Crystal Palace next on match day eight, while Brentford will be guests of Manchester United.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwo Awoniyi and Nottingham Forest laboured to a 1-1 draw with Brentford in their Premier League match at the City Ground on Sunday afternoon. After Brentford took the lead, ten-man Forest side needed to step it up and avoid defeat in front of their home fans. On the other hand, Brentford took their Premier League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":977,"featured_media":129427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"categories":[14475,1],"tags":[37733,4764],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Daniel Kolade","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129429,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129420\/revisions\/129429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129420"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=129420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}