Ange Postecoglou’s anticipate a primary win as Nottingham Forest boss goes on after his workforce have been overwhelmed at Newcastle this afternoon.
Bruno Guimaraes scored the opener 12 minutes into the second half and Nick Woltemade made positive of the win with a late penalty as Newcastle adopted up their midweek Champions League win over Union SG with one other victory.
Forest battled onerous and definitely regarded extra organised defensively than they did within the 3-2 defeat at dwelling to Midtjylland on Thursday night time however this efficiency will do little to influence sceptical Forest followers that proprietor Evangelos Marinakis was proper to sack Nuno Espírito Santo and change him with Postecoglou.
The Australian has did not win any of his seven video games in cost with Forest now sitting only a level above the underside three.
A primary half to overlook
The primary half was cagey with little in the way in which of invention or clear-cut probabilities.
All sides had one respectable alternative: Joelinton seeing a far-post header palmed away by Matz Sels whereas Chris Wooden should have finished higher than let the ball cannon off his knee after he had been present in area by Morgan Gibbs-White’s low cross.
Newcastle began to boss proceedings after the break.
They need to’ve gone in entrance after 51 minutes. Morato made a large number of clearing Antony Gordon’s cross, laying it on a plate for Woltemade six yards out just for the defender to rise up and block the German’s shot.
Forest sad with Guimaraes aim
The aim got here six minutes later. A Forest break was stopped in strong vogue by Guimaraes who went in strongly on Gibbs-White. Forest needed a free-kick however referee Peter Bankes waved play on. Dan Burn laid the ball off to Guimaraes on the sting of the realm and he curled a shot previous Sels and into the online.
Postecoglou made a triple change in a bid to discover a route again into the competition, bringing on Callum Hudson-Odoi, Igor Jesus and Omari Hutchinson. It made little distinction, nevertheless, and Woltemade missed one other alternative to attain shortly afterwards, by some means firing towards the bar from shut vary.
Sels made very good stops to disclaim Malick Thiaw and substitute Harvey Barnes earlier than some terrible play from Elliot Anderson gifted Newcastle the possibility to double their lead.
The previous Newcastle midfielder dawdled on the ball inside his personal space after which lunged into Guimaraes to concede a useless penalty. Woltemade made no mistake from the spot, firing excessive into the highest left-hand nook.
Forest by no means actually threatened a comeback, leaving Postecoglou preventing for his future because the Premier League heads into a world break.
When the home motion returns, Forest host Chelsea on October 18 earlier than video games towards Porto, Bournemouth and Manchester United.
