Nottingham Forest 1-0 Brentford: Ben Watson hits winner at City Ground

N Forest vs Brentford
Sky Bet Chship
3:00pm Saturday October

The City Ground
(Att: 27598)

Stand-in Nottingham Forest captain Ben Watson scored his City Ground winner at successive matches as their unbeaten Sky Bet Championship run stretched to ten games.
Watson, deputising using Michael Dawson sidelined for a second game with a calf injury as skipper, had not scored before his strike which beat against Barnsley 1-0 at home.
The midfielder was the difference against the Bees, scoring a stunning volley in the 56th minute to lift up Forest up to next at the table, level on points with leaders West Brom.
It was a objective of quality in an game which needed to wait until the minute because of its chance, with the climbing 20-yard strike of Joe Lolley following a run from inside the circle.
It was not a unsatisfactory Brentford side carved out their first opportunity, though a low 12-yard drive from Josh DaSilva was awakened from Brice Samba.
Forest countered, culminating in the pull of Lewis Grabban back into the area teeing up Tiago Silva however, Mathias Jensen was able to earn a battle, together with punishment shouts rightly ignored, just as the Portuguese midfielder was about to let fly.
Silvaalmost broke the deadlock from the 34th minute, later Yuri Ribeiro had been brought down by Julian Jeanvier hitting a 25-yard past Raya post.
Using a dead-ball delivery of their , Brentford reacted with the last kick of the half subsequent Watson undertake on Sergi Canos.
Off the wall Jensens curler took a wicked deflection from 35 yards, forcing a Samba once he had set off to his right, to hit clear into his left.
The breakthrough arrived 11 minutes after the period, spawned with a stunning intervention in Bees skipper Pontus Jansson away for a corner because the striker and as he took off the ball the feet of Grabban lined an angled drive.
However from the inswinging delivery, inadvertently flicked by Jeanvier at the post of Silva, Joe Worrall supplied a padded header towards Watson who subsequently hit on a thunderous volley ago Raya.
Was just after the hour after Bryan Mbuemo struck a rising drive from the border of the area that had two yards over the bar.
Instead, it was Forest who should have added to their tally but first Silva flashed a 15-yard shot past Rayas left-hand post, whereas Sammy Ameobi – who had replaced Joao Carvalho in the 64th minute – driven a nice low stop from your Brentford goalkeeper nine minutes in time.

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