Post Match report for the Notts Forest game - Sunday, 30th November 2025
PREMIER LEAGUE 25/26: Forest V Brighton - 30/11/25 P13
* * * * * AGAINST THE GRAIN * * * * *
RESULT: 0-2 ~ de Cuyper Tzimas . (h-t 0-1)
VENUE: City Ground, Nottingham - seventh away match of 13 fixtures to date . Sun 2:05pm.
BEFORE KICKOFF: Brighton fans had been here many times this century but last term suffered palpitating shock.
Now things were different in that Reds fans had been on the back foot playing catch up with past performances.
WEATHER: sun . GATE: 30,522 . KIT: blue & white . ATMOSPHERE: nothing like it when winning.
FABIAN HURZELER had sleepless nights for some considerable time replaying that City Ground disaster of 1st February.
FH found a longer list of personnel available for selection and so went with what he thought would be best form.
SQUAD: 14 Watson 20 Milner 22 Mitoma
INJURED: 0 . REHAB: 4 Webster 7 March
OOL: 3 Julio 16 Cashin 28 Ferguson 32 Sarmiento 33 ORiley 39 Rushworth (gk) 40 Buonanotte
STARTING SHAPE: 4-2-3-1
TEAM . . . . . . . . . 1 Verbruggen
. 27 Wieffer 6 van Hecke 5 Dunk 24 Kadioglu
. 11 Minteh 25 Gomez 26 Ayari 29 de Cuyper
. . . . . 10 Rutter . . . 18 Welbeck
SUBS: 13 Hinshelwood (56), 9 Tzimas (65), 8 Gruda (84), 17 Baleba (84), 34 Veltman (84)
BENCH: 23 Steele 19 Kostoulas 21 Boscagli 42 Coppola
GOALS:
0-1 - 45 . DE CUYPER notches the opener following good work from Rutter, Wieffer & Welbeck in a foray forwards.
0-2 - 88 . TZIMAS on as a very late sub gets his first goal when poaching from a mistake in defence.
YELLOWS: Wieffer 44
CHANGES: 56 Hinshelwood for Rutter . 65 Tzimas for Welbeck
84 Gruda, Baleba & Veltman for Minteh, de Cuyper & Gomez
FIRST HALF: visitors were quickly off the blocks but failed to convert early chances.
Hosts then woke up and had momentum for rest of this period.
But travellers scored first - soon into stoppage time.
SECOND HALF: locals pile on pressure throughout as they chase the game.
Subs are introduced in a have & hold exercise from a single goal game.
Seagulls score a very late second goal against run of play.
IN THE END: three points secured versus an outfit that appeared wooden after a midweek Europa experience.
NUMBERS: poss 52%-48%, on target 3-6, off target 16-11, corners 9-2,
fouls 11-10, yellows 0-1, subs 5-5, shape 4231-4231 . . . . . gd5 pt22 po5
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