Nottingham Forest 0-2 Brighton: Forest’s unbeaten run beneath Sean Dyche halted as Seagulls edge Premier League contest

Nottingham Forest’s current run of 5 video games unbeaten in all competitions was ended by Brighton because the Seagulls claimed a 2-0 win on the City Ground.

Since Sean Dyche’s arrival on the finish of October, Forest had misplaced simply as soon as and gained every of their earlier three matches previous to Sunday’s sport by three targets.

Brighton dominated the opening 20 minutes however did not register any of their pictures on course, earlier than Forest started to search out their toes.

It had been spell for the hosts when Brighton made the breakthrough on the stroke of half-time. Maxim De Cuyper was discovered unmarked within the field by Georginio Rutter, and swept residence from shut vary.

Forest spent a lot of the second half looking for an equaliser – racking up 11 pictures to Brighton’s 4 – however have been undone by some poor defending from Morato.

He tried to play a ball backwards beneath stress inside his personal field, just for Brajan Gruda to latch onto it and try to spherical Sels. The ‘keeper almost did sufficient however the ball fell kindly to 19-year-old Stefanos Tzimas to poke residence.

Sels had earlier made an important double save to maintain out Diego Gomez and Ferdi Kadioglu, earlier than Bart Verbruggen denied Igor Jesus on the different finish. It was Sels who started the assault too, however Forest have been unable to search out the leading edge that had served them so effectively in current matches.

Brighton transfer up into fifth with the victory, and can go some method to exorcising the demons from final season’s 7-0 defeat on the City Ground. Forest stay in sixteenth, only a level above the relegation locations.

Analysis: De Cuyper shines as Forest badly miss Murillo

Sky Sports’ Declan Olley:

Last season, Brighton have been humiliated at Nottingham Forest after they misplaced 7-0 on the City Ground in February.

Nearly 10 months on, the Seagulls acquired revenge for that embarrassment with an excellent win that exhibits they’re severe contenders for a European spot this season.

Key to the victory was Maxim De Cuyper – a participant who didn’t expertise that thrashing within the East Midlands final season – as Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler deployed the summer season signing to nice impact in a brand new place on the left wing.

From there, the Belgium worldwide raided up the left and helped Brighton try 9 pictures within the opening 20 minutes of the match – their most ever in that interval of a Premier League match.

And it was De Cuyper who deservedly made the breakthrough to cap off a superb first-half show. The 24-year-old was then awarded the person of the match as he created essentially the most probabilities (4) and tried essentially the most crosses (4) of any Seagulls participant.

Speaking to Sky Sports afterwards about his positional change, he stated: “When I was younger, I played there a lot, so it was a bit weird in the beginning to play there again, but I’m happy there.”

Meanwhile, a lot has modified at Forest since that 7-0 victory over Brighton, with a brand new supervisor, European soccer and a possible relegation scrap on their arms. But one of many key variations 10 months on was the absence of Murillo.

The Forest defender missed Sunday’s sport via harm, and his unavailability was keenly felt.

His substitute, Morato, had a shaky sport that culminated in a mistake for Brighton’s second.

Forest boss Sean Dyche, due to this fact, might be hoping Murillo’s harm clears up forward of a crunch relegation six-pointer at bottom-side winless Wolves on Wednesday, dwell on Sky Sports.

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Dyche: Brighton defeat acquired away from us, however not via lack of effort

Nottingham Forest head coach Sean Dyche to Sky Sports: “It’s a strange one with the performance after the first 20 minutes because that [start] was really poor. It felt like we were waiting for everyone else to do something but they [Brighton] certainly weren’t waiting.

“Then we took a grip of the sport and performed very effectively for the second half of the primary half.

“We gave away a soft goal and we should manage the game at that point. It’s minutes on the clock and you just see that through, it’s the basics.

“In the second half, I believed we have been dominant. It’s a mistake of a aim on the finish, however we acquired in so many good areas.

“Weirdly, there a lot of good signs in our performance but you’ve got to score goals, which we have been doing to be fair.

“It’s exhausting to query the gamers after that second half. It’s an ideal response to being 1-0 down. There’s no licking your wounds, we simply acquired on with it right away and that is acquired to be vital to us.

“There are a lot of good signs here but we’ve got to turn those signs into wins, which we have done. Today is the one that got away from us, but not through lack of effort, just through lack of tactical disciple in the early part.

“Then for the remainder of it, I can not query the gamers’ motivation to win the sport as a result of it was fairly apparent.”

Dunk: Best soccer we have performed all season for first 20 minutes

Brighton captain Lewis Dunk to Sky Sports: “It was probably the best football we’ve played all season for the first 20 minutes. Then they changed their press and we couldn’t quite get to grips with it. They went man-to-man and we couldn’t understand how to get out of it enough.

“But within the first half, we have been the higher aspect however within the second, we needed to dig deep. It’s at all times a tricky place to come back right here.

“Sometimes you have to win a bit ugly and that’s what we did today. We had a lot to resolve from last year and we did that so it’s a nice feeling.”

Brighton head coach Fabian Hurzeler to Sky Sports: “Very happy for the team, for the staff, they worked hard this week and during the game.

“We began rather well. We created probabilities, we defended rather well, then we deserved the lead.

“In the second half, we struggled a little bit. Nottingham Forest bought on some real quality and we suffered a little bit, but we stuck together, we defended and attacked together. In the end, we deserved to win.”

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