7 h. ago Nottingham Forest push their luck to edge closer to European place

Crystal Palace 1-1 Nottingham Forest: Murillo didn’t know much about his equaliser as he diverted in Neco Williams’s shot but it could be a key goal for Forest

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8 h. ago Murillo’s lucky strike secures Forest another point towards European push

Murillo might not have known much about his goal as he diverted a Neco Williams shot into the net to rescue a point.

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8 h. ago Nottingham Forest European hopes dented as Crystal Palace suffer FA Cup final scare

CRYSTAL PALACE 1-1 NOTTINGHAM FOREST: Eberechi Eze kept his cool to put the hosts in front from the penalty spot but Murillo quickly brought Forest back level as the spoils were shared at Selhurst Park

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4 d. ago Wissa clinches win for Brentford to dent Nottingham Forest’s European hopes

This week Nottingham Forest readied themselves for the Champions League, Evangelos Marinakis relinquishing his controlling interest in the club to comply with Uefa’s ownership rules. Marinakis’s other club, Greek champions Olympiakos, have already qualified for the grandest stage in the club game but Forest’s bid to return to European competition will probably go to the wire. Will Forest, who remain sixth, look back on defeat at home to Brentford as a costly misstep when their season ends here against Chelsea, one of those teams vying for a top-five berth?Forest, who face Crystal Palace, Leicester and West Ham before that potential final-day showdown, never really got going on a disappointing evening. Goals from Kevin Schade and Yoane Wissa, a January target for Forest, condemned the hosts to successive league home defeats for the first time since the end of last season. Nuno Espírito Santo’s side have now lost four of their past five matches in all competitions, including Sunday’s ...

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9 d. ago Crystal Palace in dreamland as Eagles soar into FA Cup final at Aston Villa's expense

CRYSTAL PALACE 3-0 ASTON VILLA: A stunning strike from Eberechi Eze and a brace from Ismaila Sarr secured Palace a spot in the FA Cup final as Unai Emery's side were well beaten at Wembley

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9 d. ago Nottingham Forest legend Tony Woodcock on the magic of Brian Clough's miracles

Never again will a team rise from mid-table obscurity in the second tier to win the title and European Cup like Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest, but Trent end legend Tony Woodcock says they can dare to dream again

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1 week ago Jordan shuts local branch of Muslim Brotherhood after arrests

Ban comes week after 16 members were arrested, accused of threatening national securityJordan has said it is shutting down the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and banning membership of the Islamist political group.The ban came a week after Jordan said it had arrested 16 members of the Muslim Brotherhood accused of threatening national security by training militants, making explosives and plotting to strike targets in Jordan with rockets and drones. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Wood caps Forest’s blistering start at Tottenham to refuel European dream

There is no need to attempt to rewrite history by arguing that Tottenham Hotspur failed to see what they had in Nuno Espírito Santo. All that matters now is that this meticulous, softly spoken manager is the perfect fit for Nottingham Forest. They have provided Nuno with the perfect platform for his counterpunching tactics and, in what would surely be the story of the Premier League season, are ­closing in on Champions League football after cruising to victory over Ange Postecoglou’s limp and ­uninterested Spurs side.This was cool, clinical and resilient from Forest as they bounced back from two successive defeats by rising into third place with five games left. Nerves, it seems, are not for them. They struck early through Elliot Anderson and Chris Wood, who punished diffident defending, and then leant on their defensive prowess to claim the points. Spurs, stuck in 16th after falling to their 18th defeat in 33 games, were beaten inside 16 minutes, a header from Richarlison coming to...

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3 w. ago Late Nuno Mendes strike caps PSG comeback to hurt Aston Villa hopes

Luis Enrique is regarded as the manager who finally transformed Paris Saint-Germain from a group of individuals into a team but that process, changing the DNA to use his words, has not prohibited players from expressing themselves. For Exhibit A, see Khvicha Kvaratskhelia’s preposterous strike, a flash of lightning that helped to secure for PSG a deserved advantage heading into the second leg of this quarter-final.Exhibit B was a beauty, too, Désiré Doué cracking a rasping strike in off the woodwork after Morgan Rogers gave Villa a shock first-half lead. The killer goal, for both teams, came in stoppage time, Nuno Mendes making it 3-1. By the end it was 29 shots to seven and tempting to wonder quite how many full-backs Unai Emery would require to cage PSG’s ravenous front three of Kvaratskhelia, Ousmane Dembélé and Doué, the prodigious teenager. Frankly it is hard to envisage PSG not scoring at Villa Park. Continue reading...

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