Antoine Semenyo adds to Forest’s woes following Danilo’s horror injury
Nottingham Forest have installed two chunky 3D stars outside the Peter Taylor Stand for the players to walk through on arrival, the kind that would be at home on the set of a teatime television game show, but their season began without a conveyor-belt prize, a family saloon or a trip to the Caribbean. Instead there was lingering frustration at Antoine Semenyo cancelling out Chris Wood’s first-half strike late on and major concern for Danilo, who was carried off on a stretcher after a seemingly innocuous collision with the Bournemouth goalscorer.
Last season this fixture, Nuno Espírito Santo’s first in charge of Forest, was certainly eventful, mired in controversy after a farcical first-half red card for Willy Boly. It was a decision that prompted a formal complaint from Forest against PGMOL, which in effect set wheels in motion for the former referee Mark Clattenburg’s much-debated arrival. There were five second-half goals, with Wood on the scoresheet for Forest and Dominic Solanke scoring a fine hat-trick, the winner a superb header in the fourth minute of stoppage time. This time VAR was in their favour, ruling out Dango Ouattara’s equaliser with Lewis Cook offside.
