Nottingham Forest moved back out of the Premier League’s bottom three with a goalless home draw against mid-table Fulham.<\/p>\n
Vitor Pereira’s side had dropped into the relegation zone as a result of West Ham’s draw against Manchester City on Saturday.<\/p>\n
But Forest’s point means they and the Hammers both have 29 points, with West Ham’s inferior goal difference putting them back below the safety line.<\/p>\n
Two offside decisions against half-time substitute Dan Ndoye proved costly for the hosts, who are still yet to register a league win under Pereira.<\/p>\n
The Switzerland winger was bundled over in the penalty area by Calvin Bassey just after his introduction at the break, and although referee Sam Barrott awarded a spot-kick, his assistant then flagged for offside.<\/p>\n
Soon afterwards, Ndoye collected Neco Williams’ pass and slotted neatly beyond Fulham keeper Bernd Leno – but he was again adjudged to be offside, this time via the video assistant referee (VAR).<\/p>\n
The Cottagers had created the best chance of a quiet first period, with centre-back Bassey heading straight at Matz Sels from six yards.<\/p>\n
As the game sparked into life after the break and both sides had opportunities, Forest looked more likely winners.<\/p>\n
Full-back Ola Aina was involved at both ends – first striking the crossbar against his former club with a powerful volley from the edge of the box, and then heading a goalbound Rodrigo Muniz effort over his own bar.<\/p>\n
Taiwo Awoniyi wasted another glorious chance for the hosts late on, sliding his shot wide after being put through by Elliot Anderson.<\/p>\n
Marco Silva’s side are 11th in a congested middle portion of the table, three points behind seventh-placed Brentford, who host bottom club Wolves on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest moved back out of the Premier League’s bottom three with a goalless home draw against mid-table…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-525779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}