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Nuno Espirito Santo clinched his first win in command of Nottingham Forest as Chris Wooden’s hat-trick in opposition to his former membership Newcastle impressed a 3-1 victory.
Wooden left Newcastle to hitch Forest in a £15 million ($19 million) deal in June, however had scored solely 4 instances for his new membership.
The 32-year-old New Zealand worldwide managed simply two league targets for Newcastle final time period, however he surpassed that meagre complete with a treble in 60 minutes at St James’ Park.
Alexander Isak’s first half penalty put Newcastle forward, however Wooden equalised simply earlier than the break.
He struck twice extra within the second half at hand former Tottenham supervisor Nuno his maiden victory with Forest in his second sport in cost after changing the sacked Steve Cooper.
It was Forest’s first win in eight video games and solely their second success of their final 15 matches.
Forest moved 5 factors away from the relegation zone forward of the remainder of the day’s matches.
Nuno’s first sport in cost resulted in a painful 3-2 stoppage-time defeat in opposition to Bournemouth on the Metropolis Floor final weekend.
Newcastle’s fifth defeat of their final seven video games in all competitions leaves them seven factors adrift of the highest 4 in seventh place.
Luton boss Rob Edwards stated South Yorkshire Police are investigating an alleged racist remark in the direction of Carlton Morris in his facet’s 3-2 win at fellow strugglers Sheffield United.
Morris complained of a remark constituted of a United fan late within the second half, which left him “fairly offended”, and the police have spoken to him.
It soured what was an amazing day for Morris as he got here off the bench to create two personal targets in 4 minutes as third backside Luton got here from 2-1 right down to beat the division’s backside membership.
“There was an alleged racist remark, the police are coping with that, they’ve spoken to Carlton and acquired his tackle it, so it’s with them now,” Edwards stated.
Fulham boss Marco Silva insisted his goalkeeper Bernd Leno “touched” however “did not push” a ball boy in the course of the Cottagers’ 3-0 defeat at Bournemouth.
The second-half incident occurred when Leno went to gather the ball from the teenager’s outstretched hand earlier than utilizing his personal hand to make deliberate contact with the shoulder of the boy, who appeared to take a step again for steadiness.
The 31-year-old German later returned to apologise to the ball boy for the encounter, although Silva was adamant the interplay had been exaggerated.
“Have you ever seen him pushing? I did not see this. Sure, he apologised. I spoke with Bernd about it,” Silva stated.
