Leeds had been too good for Nottingham Forest at Elland Highway tonight…
Leeds pulled 9 factors away from the Premier League relegation zone with a complete win over a Nottingham Forest facet now trying over their shoulders.
The match was a conflict between the 2 groups occupying the ultimate positions of security, perched precariously above the entice door, nevertheless it was the hosts who seized the initiative with a rousing show on a moist evening at Elland Highway.
The sport burst into life after 26 minutes when Jayden Bogle slotted Leeds in entrance they usually doubled their benefit 4 minutes later, Noah Okafor changing James Justin’s centre.
Forest, who had received their earlier two away video games within the Premier League, by no means actually threatened a comeback and Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s tenth league objective of the season at first of the second half settled it.
Lorenzo Lucca, the striker on-loan from Napoli, grabbed a late comfort on his Forest debut however the guests had been effectively overwhelmed.
Quickfire objectives put Leeds on street to victory
Leeds began the brighter – Zach Abbott slicing Gabriel Gudmundsson’s low cross over his personal bar – earlier than Forest threatened. Callum Hudson-Odoi had a shot saved by Karl Darlow, as did Nicolas Dominguez, whereas Igor Jesus should have performed higher than head Elliot Anderson’s sensible cross extensive.
Leeds rode their luck and capitalised on some woeful Forest defending to open the scoring. Ilia Gruev had on a regular basis on this planet to clip an ideal ball excessive for Bogle to run on to and the proper wing-back made no mistake with a low end.
Justin made it 2-0 not lengthy after. Having seen his shot saved by debutant Stefan Ortega, he had the presence of thoughts to sq. the free ball to Okafor and he swept it dwelling.
Morgan Gibbs-White noticed a deflected effort parried clear by Darlow earlier than half-time however Forest’s problem was successfully ended 4 minutes after the restart.
Calvert-Lewin settles it in Leeds’ favour
Extra lacklustre defending noticed Gruev given an excessive amount of area on the sting of the field. Solely he’ll know if he was making an attempt to shoot or cross however Calvert-Lewin wanted no second invitation to information the ball previous Ortega together with his chest.
Gruev almost added a fourth, simply failing to nod dwelling in a goalmouth scramble.
Lucca did discover the again of the web, heading dwelling powerfully from fellow substitute Omari Hutchinson’s cross from the proper with 4 minutes to go nevertheless it was scant comfort for Forest.
Forest stay six factors away from third-from-bottom West Ham and can take a detailed curiosity within the Hammers’ journey to fellow strugglers Burnley tomorrow.
