To re-establish Nottingham Forest as a Premier League club, and keep Steve Cooper, a manager beloved among its fans comfortably in situ, an improvement in away form is badly required.
A game lost from a winning position, albeit one held for just two minutes, was a severe blow to both objectives. When it came down to it, even though they knew precisely what was coming, Forest’s failure to deal with James Ward-Prowse’s expert delivery and Tomas Soucek cost them the point they had been hanging on for since Jarrod Bowen’s equaliser.
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