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Saturday, September 17, 2022
Tremendous Eagles striker Taiwo Awoniyi bought his title on the scoresheet because the Nigerian worldwide and his membership Nottingham Forest had been defeated 3-2 at residence by the hands of Fulham in a matchday seven fixture on Friday night time.
The night time marked the return of matches within the English Premier League following every week halt as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II who handed away at 96 final week:
Previous to kick off, the temper within the stadium was sombre as gamers from each side and match officers noticed a minute silence in honour of the Queen.
Awoniyi solely noticed 69 minutes of motion however managed to seek out the again of the online in what was his return to Forest’s beginning lineup after coming off from the bench.
The 25-year-old made an instantaneous influence in his return to the beginning lineup when he put Forest forward within the eleventh minute with an in depth nod that flick a nook into the online.
The aim was Awoniyi’s second of the season.
Fulham afterwards made a number of makes an attempt on aim to get an equaliser however they had been to no avail. The primary half ended 1-0 on the Metropolis Floor.
It was a coincidence when a Tremendous Eagles-eligible defender Tosin Adarabioyo header in Williams cross to equalise for Fulham within the 54th minute.
The sport shortly modified its course three minutes later when João Palhinha scored a volley from outdoors to place Fulham forward for the primary time within the match earlier than Harrison Reed doubled the lead simply on the hour mark.
Moments later, Awoniyi had one other likelihood to scale back the deficit for the hosts, however he nodded a free header large off the publish.
Within the 77th minute, Lewis O’Brien fired into the again of the online contained in the 18-yard field to scale back the deficit for Nottingham Forest.
Fulham walked away with a formidable 3-2 victory to document the primary away win this season.
The end result additionally implies that Nottingham Forest have now misplaced all their final 4 matches within the league and at the moment sit nineteenth on the desk.
In the meantime, Aston Villa defeated Southampton 1-0 within the different matchday seven fixture of the night time on the Villa Park.
Jacob Ramsey scored the one aim of the encounter within the forty first minute to present the The Villans the necessary victory as they moved to thirteenth place on the desk with tied on factors and aim distinction with Southampton.
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