{"id":163297,"date":"2025-11-27T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163297\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:30:08","slug":"forest-roll-back-the-years-with-destruction-of-malmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163297\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest roll back the years with destruction of Malmo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nottingham Forest paid tribute to their 1979 European Cup-winning heroes in style with a 3-0 win over Malmo in the Europa League.<\/p>\n

Brian Clough’s Forest conquered Europe 46 years ago when Trevor Francis’ goal against the Swedish side gave them a 1-0 success in Munich.<\/p>\n

Nostalgia was in full supply ahead of kick-off, with most of the living players from that famous night paraded on the City Ground pitch as well as a two-minute film projected onto the Brian Clough Stand.<\/p>\n

And although the stakes were much lower this time in a league phase match, Forest were again victorious thanks to goals from Ryan Yates, Arnaud Kalimuendo and Nikola Milenkovic.<\/p>\n

The current crop have their own desires of triumphing in Europe and kept themselves in contention for finishing in the top eight of a congested league table after five games.<\/p>\n

Victory for Forest continued the upward trend under boss Sean Dyche, who has now delivered three wins in a row amid a five-match unbeaten run in all competitions, with the unsettling spell at the start of the season seemingly behind them.<\/p>\n

Dyche’s men took advantage of coming up against a Malmo side who were playing their first competitive match since 9 November.<\/p>\n

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\nArnaud Kalimuendo (C) celebrates making it 2-0 <\/p>\n

Callum Hudson-Odoi dragged a shot wide in just the third minute while Nicolas Dominguez also put a spearing header just off target.<\/p>\n

The breakthrough came in the 28th minute and it was perhaps fitting that a homegrown Forest player was the scorer.<\/p>\n

Milenkovic’s cross deflected invitingly into the path of Yates and the skipper coolly slotted home from 12 yards.<\/p>\n

It should have been 2-0 10 minutes later but Kalimuendo shot too close to Melker Ellborg, with Milenkovic putting his header from the resulting corner straight at the Malmo goalkeeper.<\/p>\n

The second did come on the stroke of half-time as Kalimuendo broke his Forest duck.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman was on hand to tap home his first goal for the club after Ellborg had spectacularly clawed away Yates’ header from a James McAtee cross.<\/p>\n

Forest made it 3-0 just before the hour when Milenkovic converted from close range after Yates’ volley fell into his path, with the goal surviving a lengthy VAR check for offside.<\/p>\n

Hudson-Odoi then clipped the crossbar as Forest chased more goals, but three was enough as they took the foot off the pedal with Sunday’s visit of Brighton in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest paid tribute to their 1979 European Cup-winning heroes in style with a 3-0 win over Malmo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-163297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}