During a hot day on the 22nd pf April Nottingham Forest bet Middlesbrough 3-0. Nottingham Forest undoubtedly was the better team on what was classed as an extremely important game against a strong Middlesbrough side.
On a very warm Monday, Nottingham Forest faced Middlebrough at the City Ground. The game was an all important meeting between the two sides as Middlesbrough urgently needed a must have 3 points to edge them closer to a play-off spot and Nottingham Forest scrambling for a win after 4 consecutive loses.
Nottingham Forest opened up the scoring sheet with a penalty which came from Nottingham Forest’ striker Karim Ansarifard who made a darting run into middlesbrough’s box and was then brought down by a defender to what looked like a goal scoring opportunity. When the referee called for a penalty Joe Lolley stepped up to take the penalty. Lolley nestled the ball into the back of the net making it 1-0 to Nottingham Forest.
In the second half Nottingham Forest dominated the game by a mile. Forest began to open up space for themselves which would in turn allow them to kill of the game at three nil against a very strong Middlesbrough side. Alex Milosevic smashed in the second for Forest and subsequently after another hit the net due to a great assist from man of the match João Carvalho which was scored by Joe Lolley netting his second of the game and 10th of the season.
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