Nottingham Forest 2 Crystal Palace 0: compare report

By Sandy Macaskill 640AM GMT twenty-four March 2010

On the symbol Nottingham Forest"s Wes Morgan wheels afar after scoring opposite Crystal Palace Photo GETTY IMAGES

If Nottingham Forest are pang from being in the "nervous nineties", as Billy Davies, borrowing from the cricketing lexicon, suggested, they are coping well with the jitters.

Wes Morgan and Nathan Tyson took them to their 12th unbroken home joining win last night, so equalling a jot down set by their former manager, Brian Clough, thirty years ago - though not even he managed the attainment in a singular season.

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At risk of looming a killjoy, it is value indicating out that of the majority new washed up opponents, Peterborough, column up the list whilst Crystal Palace are third from bottom. Still, 9 purify sheets in their past eleven home games is zero short of excellent. With West Bromwich Albion five points forward of them, a place in the play-offs looks majority likely, but involuntary graduation is still possible.

It equates to Davies has a "strong hand", that could come in accessible if reports of dispute with his house infer to be right. While he stressed that he had no issues with authority Nigel Doughty, Davies done an ambiguous guarantee to go on to be "a pain" by charity his advice. "My palm is really strong. Its not my money, but that doesnt stop me from giving my honest analysis," he said.

For a prolonged time the City Ground resembled row on row of thinking Dulux peculiarity controllers examination their product dry, as earnest build-ups were frittered away. Opportunities to emanate something had come and left prior to Morgan perceived Paul Andersons block pass and struck from outward the area with a text delivery, head over the ball, eyes fixed.

Paul Hart, a former Forest player and physical education instructor here for 3 years, seeks to save Palace from the dump but it does not see good.

Danny Butterfield shop-worn his injure leg tendon and when Matt Lawrence was sent off, for a sport that prevented Robert Earnshaw from going by (think Hand of God, but far some-more blatant), Palace upheld the point of no return. Tyson hermetic the win with eight mins left.