A double from Brennan Johnson earned Nottingham Forest a 2-0 win over Leicester City on Saturday, pulling Steve Cooper’s facet 5 factors away from the Premier League relegation zone.
Leicester’s Harvey Barnes suffered a day he would relatively neglect as he missed two golden probabilities in every half to provide the guests the lead.
Those misses proved expensive as Johnson latched onto Morgan Gibbs-White’s by ball earlier than firing Forest into the lead within the 56th minute.
Johnson made certain of what might be an important win in Forest’s survival bid late on with a superb end, because the hosts made it back-to-back league wins to climb up the standings to thirteenth, above Leicester which has now misplaced 4 league video games in a row.
Podence scores as Wolves beat West Ham to maneuver out of relegation zone
Wolverhampton Wanderers moved out of the Premier League relegation zone after a second-half purpose from Daniel Podence guided it to a 1-0 win over West Ham United at residence on Saturday.
Wolves jumped three spots as much as sixteenth on 17 factors after 19 video games, whereas West Ham slipped one spot to 18th on 15 factors, one level adrift of the protection zone.
After an intense first half, Wolves scored from a counter-attack from a West Ham nook within the forty eighth minute as Ruben Neves’ ball deflected off of Aaron Creswell and fell to Podence, who fired residence with a first-time effort, low into the underside nook. It was Podence’s fifth purpose of the season and solely Wolves’ twelfth league purpose this season.
Neves might have made it 2-0 within the seventy fifth minute however his long-range strike hammered towards the bar and on the follow-up, Rayan Ait-Nouri hit the ball towards the submit. Raul Jimenez thought he had a stoppage-time purpose but it surely was flagged offside.
West Ham’s greatest probability got here within the first half when Lucas Paqueta’s elegant cross from the left was flicked on by Tomas Soucek and an unmarked Vladimir Coufal on the again submit struck it in the direction of purpose however Hugo Bueno blocked it.
Ward-Prowse brace provides Southampton a victory
James Ward-Prowse scored twice as backside facet Southampton got here from behind to assert an important 2-1 Premier League victory at fellow struggler Everton and deepen the disaster at Goodison Park on Saturday.
Amadou Onana gave the house facet a primary half lead however Ward-Prowse equalised within the first minute of the second interval after which curled in a trademark free-kick to provide Southampton its first victory at Everton since 1997.
Southampton stays backside of the standings with 15 factors from its 19 video games, the identical quantity as Everton, which is above it solely on purpose distinction.
The consequence comes on a day when members of the Everton board was suggested to avoid the bottom over what the membership termed a “real and credible threat to their safety and security”. Everton followers had deliberate a ‘sit-in’ on the floor after the sport in protest on the membership’s present plight.
The victory ends a run of six straight league defeats for Southampton and is available in per week wherein it dumped Manchester City out of the League Cup, a marked enchancment for brand new supervisor Nathan Jones after a tough begin on the membership.
Ward-Prowse additionally noticed his shot tipped onto the submit by Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford within the first half, whereas residence striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin had his deflected shot come off the crossbar with the rating at 1-1.