Nottingham Forest crushed Brighton 7-0 at the City Ground on Saturday thanks to a spectacular hat-trick from Chris Wood, rekindling their hopes of winning the Champions League the following season.
Lewis Dunk’s own goal began the scoring in a spectacular display by Nuno Espirito Santo’s team, who recovered strongly from last weekend’s 5-0 loss at Bournemouth. Morgan Gibbs-White, Neco Williams, and Jota Silva were also on goal.
The resounding win puts Forest seven points ahead of sixth-place Chelsea and evens the score with second-place Arsenal.
A fifth-place Premier League result is anticipated to be sufficient for Champions League participation, given how well English clubs are playing in Europe this season.
Forest last competed in Europe in 1996. Under Brian Clough, they won the European Cup twice, in 1979 and 1980.
They are, however, well on their way to ending that protracted wait for continental football after an incredible run of ten victories from their last twelve games.
By doing this, Forest became only the second side in Premier League history to win by the same or a larger margin after losing by five goals.
“That’s exactly what the fans wanted and what we wanted after last week,” Gibbs-White stated. We’ve been working hard to make things right because last week wasn’t up to par. Today the boys were amazing.
They were caught on the counter, and all they did was totally neutralized.
In the last three minutes, we were clinical. Fabian Hürzeler, the manager of Brighton, started an attacking side with five attackers, but his audacious strategy backfired as Forest’s speed and accuracy in attack ripped the Seagulls apart.
The tone was established by Dunk’s own goal in the 12th minute.
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