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Aston Villa survived a late attack from the Nottingham Forest to get a 2-1 victory at Villa Park.
Goals from the first half of Morgan Rogers and Donyell Malen were the difference in Midlands, despite a spirit combat in the second half of the visitors, who retired through the replacement Jota Silva.
Villa ran to a two -goal lead within the initial 15 minutes. The opening arrived in the 13th minute when Youri Tielemans played a ball through the Rogers path, which passed Matz Sels for his eighth goal of the season.
Only 138 seconds later, the hosts doubled their advantage. Ian Maatsen delivered a low cross from the left flank, which found Malan unmarked in the six-gardens box for a simple touch-in.
Forest fought and disorganized in the first half, although they were occasionally threatened on the counter.
Callum Hudson-Odoi and Anthony Elanga approached with shots that were narrowed, but Villa kept control at the break with a well-deserved 2-0 advantage.
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Nuno Spirit and then responding and the break took Jota Silva for Elanga.
The Portuguese end had an immediate impact, in the middle of the deficit in the 57th minute after Neco Williams delivered a cross crossed from the left. The Silva finish in the lower right corner gave Forest Hope and changed the impulse in favor.
From that moment on, it was the visitors who seemed more likely to mark. Villa’s early composition gave rise to anxiety when the forest advanced with renewed energy.
Hudson-Odoi and Williams approached, while Anderson and Gibbs-White were constant threats in the box and around.
He was the goalkeeper of Villa, Emiliano Martinez, who became his Savior in the closing stages. First, he denied reflecting Silva from a nearby range head, and then thanked Murillo’s strike from the area from the area cut the crossbar in the stoppage.
In the meantime, Sels also maintained the forest with a series of excellent stops, including a double savings for late Rashford.
Despite the second half of Forest, Villa maintained his seventh consecutive victory in the league and moved the level of points with Manchester City.
For the forest, they are still third, but they have given City and Chelsea below them the opportunity to catch up for the rest of the weekend.
