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Brennan Johnson opened the scoring with his 5th Premier League extremity of the seasonBrennan Johnson scored the lone extremity arsenic Nottingham Forest bushed Leeds to determination six points wide of the relegation places.
Forest were 2nd champion passim the archetypal fractional but led astatine the interruption acknowledgment to Johnson's thumping 14th-minute strike.
After Leeds failed to wide a free-kick connected the right, the shot bounced up for the Wales guardant to firearm it into the bottommost country from the borderline of the box.
The hosts were indebted to debutant goalkeeper Keylor Navas, connected indebtedness from Paris St-Germain, who made important first-half saves from Wilfried Gnonto, Luke Ayling and Luis Sinisterra, who enactment Leeds' champion accidental of the crippled implicit the barroom from six yards out.
Leeds' menace each but vanished successful the 2nd play and Forest comfortably held connected for a 3rd triumph successful 5 Premier League games, moving up to the 13th successful the table.
Meanwhile, Jesse Marsch's Leeds person present gone 7 league games without a triumph and enactment 17th, supra the relegation portion lone connected extremity difference.
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Line-ups
Nottm Forest
Formation 4-3-1-2
- 12Navas
- 7N WilliamsBooked astatine 55minsSubstituted forA Ayewat 90'minutes
- 30BolyBooked astatine 52mins
- 26McKenna
- 32Lodi
- 28dos Santos de OliveiraBooked astatine 30minsSubstituted forColbackat 45'minutes
- 23Freuler
- 5MangalaSubstituted forAurierat 45'minutes
- 10Gibbs-White
- 20Johnson
- 39WoodSubstituted forSurridgeat 73'minutesBooked astatine 90mins
Substitutes
- 4Worrall
- 8Colback
- 11Lingard
- 13Hennessey
- 16Surridge
- 24Aurier
- 31Furtado Scarpa
- 34A Ayew
- 38Felipe
Leeds
Formation 4-2-3-1
- 1Meslier
- 2Ayling
- 6Cooper
- 39WöberBooked astatine 77mins
- 21StruijkBooked astatine 13minsSubstituted forFirpoat 67'minutes
- 12Adams
- 8RocaSubstituted forMcKennieat 57'minutes
- 23SinisterraSubstituted forSummervilleat 57'minutes
- 11HarrisonSubstituted forGreenwoodat 83'minutes
- 29Gnonto
- 9BamfordSubstituted forRutterat 67'minutes
Substitutes
- 3Firpo
- 7Aaronson
- 10Summerville
- 22Robles
- 24Rutter
- 25Kristensen
- 28McKennie
- 42Greenwood
- 49Fernández
Referee:Robert Jones
Attendance:29,363
Live Text
Match ends, Nottingham Forest 1, Leeds United 0.
Second Half ends, Nottingham Forest 1, Leeds United 0.
Attempt missed. Crysencio Summerville (Leeds United) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is precocious and wide to the left. Assisted by Wilfried Gnonto pursuing a acceptable portion situation.
Wilfried Gnonto (Leeds United) wins a escaped footwear connected the close wing.
Foul by Renan Lodi (Nottingham Forest).
Sam Surridge (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellowish card.
Wilfried Gnonto (Leeds United) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Renan Lodi (Nottingham Forest).
Foul by Luke Ayling (Leeds United).
André Ayew (Nottingham Forest) wins a escaped footwear connected the near wing.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. André Ayew replaces Neco Williams.
Crysencio Summerville (Leeds United) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.
Foul by Remo Freuler (Nottingham Forest).
Foul by Wilfried Gnonto (Leeds United).
Renan Lodi (Nottingham Forest) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Hand shot by Remo Freuler (Nottingham Forest).
Substitution, Leeds United. Sam Greenwood replaces Jack Harrison.
Foul by Weston McKennie (Leeds United).
Jack Colback (Nottingham Forest) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Georginio Rutter (Leeds United) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.
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