Southampton 0-1 Nottingham Forest: Taiwo Awoniyi scores only goal as Forest move out of relegation zone

Taiwo Awoniyi is Nottingham Forest's apical goalscorer successful the Premier League this play with 4 goals

Nottingham Forest recorded their archetypal distant Premier League triumph of the play arsenic they bushed bottom-of-the-table Southampton to determination retired of the relegation zone.

Lyanco carelessly mislaid possession connected the halfway enactment with Brennan Johnson capitalising and racing wide earlier helium pulled it backmost for Taiwo Awoniyi, who buried the chance.

Southampton are successful their 11th successive top-flight run but person present lone won erstwhile successful 13 successful the league since beating Chelsea 2-1 connected 30 August.

The Saints failed to person a changeable connected people and are yet to prime up a azygous constituent from 4 matches since Nathan Jones replaced the sacked Ralph Hasenhuttl successful November.

Meanwhile, improving Forest person present mislaid lone 2 of 10 games successful each competitions and, arsenic it stands, are acceptable to determination supra West Ham, Everton and Bournemouth from 18th to 15th.

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Struggling Saints suffer sixth successive league match

Before the lucifer began, it featured the broadside with the worst location grounds against the squad with the worst distant record.

Che Adams had a glorious accidental to enactment the hosts up aft lone six minutes but changeable wastefully wide from wrong the punishment area.

That proved costly arsenic Forest, with conscionable 2 points from their erstwhile 8 games connected the road, deed the crossbar done the awesome Johnson earlier helium acceptable up Awoniyi 15 minutes aboriginal for the opening goal.

The archetypal fractional got adjacent worse for the hosts erstwhile centre-back Armel Bella-Kotchap, a subordinate of Germany's World Cup squad though helium failed to marque an appearance, went disconnected injured aft lone 34 minutes with Duje Caleta-Car replacing him.

The ambiance was turning with Southampton giving their fans small to cheer for the remainder of the half, with the squad booed disconnected astatine the break.

Sekou Mara had a uncommon accidental for the Saints successful the 2nd fractional but headed wide, though it took a deflection and was wrongly fixed arsenic a goal-kick.

Jones made an attacking triple substitution successful the 64th minute, with Joe Aribo, Samuel Edozie and Adam Armstrong each coming on, but nary failed to trial Forest goalkeeper Dean Henderson.

Forest past handed a debut to Brazil planetary midfielder Gustavo Scarpa aft helium became the club's 24th signing of the run erstwhile helium joined Forest connected a escaped transportation from Palmeiras past month.

The visitors were blessed to support heavy with Willy Boly, Joe Worrall and Serge Aurier each superb for Forest arsenic they frustrated the hosts.

Southampton could not find a mode done and suffered their sixth successive league decision - their worst tally since an eight-game losing streak successful 2021.

Singh Gill makes league history

History was made astatine St Mary's with Bhupinder Singh Gill becoming the archetypal Sikh-Punjabi to service arsenic an adjunct referee astatine a Premier League match.

The 37-year-old, who qualified arsenic a referee astatine the property of 14, said earlier that helium hoped to animate the aboriginal generation.

"My imagination has ever been to scope the apical of the game, beryllium a relation exemplary for aboriginal officials and promote much radical from divers backgrounds into officiating, particularly from a South Asian inheritance conscionable similar me," helium said.

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