Nottingham Forest 0-2 Brighton LIVE – Tzimas seals win for Brighton

“For me, it’s always about the club, it’s always about doing something for the fans, doing something for the staff members, doing it together with my players. So it’s always about how can we maximise the success, and we know that last season we weren’t on our highest level here. We know that there was a bad moment for everyone in the club, but the most important thing in life is always how you react to these kinds of things.

“How you come back, how you stand up, how you react to failure. And I think therefore you needed today players with big personality, players with a big self-belief, a big self-confidence, and a group that sticks together, and that’s what I saw today.”

Maxim De Cuyper scores his second Premier league goal for Brighton! 🤩 pic.twitter.com/5TNsfMeKBz

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Morato’s mistake gifts Stefanos Tzimas his first Premier League goal! pic.twitter.com/ug2xGd6tcm

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That’s full-time at the City Ground.

In what was an end-to-end affair, Brighton have come away with an important three points.

They move to 5th, climbing above Sunderland on goal difference.

Reaction to follow from both Fabian Hurzeler and Sean Dyche.

There will be seven minutes of injury time.

Stefanos Tzimas has just sealed the win for Brighton.

Morato’s header back to Sels is wayward, and in trying to make amends by recovering the ball, he inadvertently allows Tzimas to pounce, slotting it into the empty net.

That will surely secure all three points for the visitors.

There is a look of frustration on the face of Morgan Gibbs-White as he is withdrawn with an injury.

James McAtee will take his place for the final five minutes.

Hurzeler decides on three changes to try and slow the game down.

Joel Veltman, Carlos Baleba and Brajan Gruda have all come on.

Gomez, De Cuyper and Minteh are the players that have been replaced.

The chances keep coming.

Forest have upped the ante, and as we approach the final 10 minutes, it feels there is one big chance around the horizon for the hosts.

Verbruggen has just been called into action to parry Williams’ cross away from danger.

Two substitutions for Forest.

Sangare makes way for Ryan Yates and Jesus is coming off for Arnaud Kalimuendo.

Kalimuendo will be hoping that he can carry on from where he left off on Thursday, having scored his first goal for the club.

We’re back to this rapid, end-to-end, raucous match we had early in the first half.

Immediately after Sels has kept Forest alive, Hutchinson runs the pitch.

His cut-back is met by Jesus, but the shot is saved by the feet of Verbruggen.

Sels has just saved Forest from what may have been the match.

The first save is brilliant, producing a one-handed save from close range to deny Gomez’s header.

Tzimas pounces on the rebound but can’t get his shot away.

Kadioglu then follows up, only for Sels to recover once more and Forest have got away with one.

Danny Welbeck’s afternoon comes to an end.

He remained relatively quiet compared to his past few fixtures, but the Seagulls still have the lead.

Stefanos Tzimas has taken his place.

Boos ring around the City Ground as Rutter takes his time to leave the pitch having been hit in the face by Hudson-Odoi’s cross.

He is replaced by Jack Hinshelwood.

Dyche has opted for two substitutions as the second half starts.

Omari Hutchinson is on for Dan Ndoye, while Callum Hudson-Odoi replaces Nicolas Dominguez.

Forest get things back up and running at the City Ground.

It is half time and Brighton have taken the lead right at the end of the first half.

Both sides had their moments and could have felt they deserved to be ahead, but it’s the visitors who have drawn first blood this afternoon.

That is perfect for Fabian Hurzeler, but gutting for Sean Dyche.

The ball is put on a plate by Rutter to De Cuyper, who has been brilliant on the left-hand side for the visitors so far, and he slots the ball past Sels in added time to give Brighton the breakthrough.

There will be two more minutes to finish this half.

The first yellow card of the game is awarded to Mats Wieffer who stops Williams on the counter.

There is one minute and any additional time remaining of this first half.

After a period of high intensity from both sides, there is a break in play as Williams and Minteh receive treatment.

The cameras pan to Chris Wood, Dilane Bakwa and Oleksandr Zinchenko – who are all sidelined with injuries – the former having scored a hat-trick in this fixture last season.

Forest are growing into this game more and more.

Sangare unleashes a shot from around thirty yards that dips dangerously, just missing the bottom-right corner.

The hosts are now breaking forward with pace of their own, having weathered the early Brighton pressure in the first 15 minutes.

That was very close to the opener from Morgan Gibbs-White.

Nicolas Dominguez wins the ball on the left and finds Gibbs-White with an excellent cross, who meets it perfectly on the volley, but his attempt flashes narrowly wide of the back of the net.

This is the second time already this afternoon that Forest have scrambled the ball off the line from a Brighton corner.

The delivery comes in and the ball is nodded on at the far post by Gomez, but Williams is able to clear from his position on the goalline.

This is end-to-end stuff now.

The hosts have created a few opportunities and are showing some signs of life.

Igor Jesus and Dan Ndoye have been combining well, while Nicolas Dominguez has just tested Bart Verbruggen from Elliot Anderson’s corner.