{"id":166992,"date":"2025-09-25T00:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/166992\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T00:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:53:12","slug":"ange-postecoglous-nottingham-forest-begin-campaign-away-to-real-betis-in-seville-spain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/166992\/","title":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou\u2019s Nottingham Forest begin campaign away to Real Betis in Seville, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antony scored a late equalizer to rescue a 2-2 draw for Real Betis against Nottingham Forest in the Europa League on Thursday in the English team\u2019s return to European competition after three decades.<\/p>\n

Igor Jesus scored two first-half goals to put Forest 2-1 ahead but Antony, the former Manchester United forward, struck five minutes from time to deny the visitors a first win under coach Ange Postecoglou since the former Tottenham manager took over from the fired Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo.<\/p>\n

Forest reached the quarterfinals of the UEFA Cup, the predecessor of the current second-tier competition, in the 1995-96 season but hasn\u2019t been back in Europe until now.<\/p>\n

\"Igor<\/p>\n

Igor Jesus celebrates one of his goals.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Jesus netted his first in the 18th minute, three minutes after C\u00e9dric Bakambu put Betis 1-0 up with a high shot from inside the area. Morgan Gibbs-White crossed from the right for the Brazilian forward to tap in the equalizer. Another five minutes later, Jesus surged into the box to head in a second goal in his second competitive start since his transfer from Botafogo in July.<\/p>\n

Postecoglou was fired by Tottenham in June despite winning the Europa League for Spurs\u2019 first trophy in 17 years after a season in which they endured their worst-ever Premier League campaign, finishing 17th.<\/p>\n

Forest is in the Europa League instead of Crystal Palace, the English FA Cup winner which was demoted by UEFA in a complex case relating to owners having stakes in multiple clubs. Crystal Palace will play the third-tier Conference League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antony scored a late equalizer to rescue a 2-2 draw for Real Betis against Nottingham Forest in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-166992","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\/166992","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=166992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}