{"id":166651,"date":"2025-09-24T21:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/166651\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:18:23","slug":"nottingham-forest-vs-real-betis-scores-ange-postecoglou-news-igor-jesus-goals-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/166651\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest vs Real Betis scores, Ange Postecoglou news, Igor Jesus goals, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Europe, Igor Jesus.<\/p>\n

The Brazil international scored Nottingham Forest’s first European goal in 29 years – and then helped himself to seconds – as Ange Postecoglou kicked off a new campaign with a 2-2 draw against Real Betis.<\/a><\/p>\n

Postecoglou, of course, is trying to go back-to-back in the Europa League but with a new club after getting sacked by Tottenham Hotspur after lifting the trophy in May.<\/p>\n

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\"Ange<\/p>\n

Ange Postecoglou.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The Australian manager has had a tricky start to his Forest tenure domestically with two losses and a draw.<\/p>\n

And it looked like Postecoglou would post his first Forest win before Antony equalised in the 85th minute at Estadio La Cartuja in Seville.<\/p>\n

All three first half goals were scored in a wild eight minute flurry, with Cedric Bakambu lashing home from close range to give the hosts an early lead.<\/p>\n

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But Betis’ lead was short-lived as star signing Jesus sprung into action.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old striker, who has four caps for Brazil, joined Forest from Botafogo in the off-season.<\/p>\n

Postecoglou handed him a start ahead of New Zealand’s Chris Wood and Jesus rewarded his faith by converting Morgan Gibbs-White’s cross to equalise in the 18th minute.<\/p>\n

\"Igor<\/p>\n

Igor Jesus of Nottingham Forest celebrates after scoring.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Jesus unleashed his trademark Dragon Ball Z ‘Kamehameha’ celebration before giving the Forest the lead with his head from a corner five minutes later.<\/p>\n

Forest were on fire but couldn’t land the killer blow and Postecoglou was visibly frustrated when former Manchester United man Antony popped up late.<\/p>\n

A draw is a decent result given Betis started favourite with the bookmakers but Postecoglou won’t be thinking like that.<\/p>\n

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His next chance of a maiden Forest win will come at home to Sunderland in the Premier League on Sunday (AEST).<\/p>\n

Forest won the top-tier European Cup twice under the legendary Brian Clough in 1979 and 1980.<\/p>\n

MORE TO COME…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Europe, Igor Jesus. The Brazil international scored Nottingham Forest’s first European goal in 29 years –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-166651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}