Two early goals from veteran striker Aaron Wilbraham clinched three deserved points against injury-hit Forest and lifted the Robins five places up the table.
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And but for an outstanding second-half display from Forest goalkeeper Dorus de Vries, the hosts would have marked their first home win of the season with a more emphatic scoreline.
“I’m sure there has been games where they’ve played really well this season and not picked up the points they deserve, but hopefully there will be games where we don’t play so well but we nick three points”. I had a good chat with the manager (Alex Neil) at Norwich who has been brilliant with me, and I expressed my desire to play football.
Wilbraham went close to a hat-trick when volleying over on 65 minutes.
City poured forward from the start and took a fourth-minute lead when new loan signing Elliott Bennett saw his right-wing cross flicked on by Jonathan Kodjia for Wilbraham to sidefoot home at the far post with the aid of a deflection.
“We’re all professionals and we all want to do as well as we can for whatever club we’re playing for and I’m no different”.
Nottingham Forest will face Bristol City away from home in the Championship this evening.
“The positive was that they didn’t throw the towel in and with a bit of fortune might have got back into it”.
Lansbury’s dipping strike from distance rattled the crossbar and Frank Fielding made a fine one-handed stop to keep out Jack Hobbs’s header, but Forest lacked the spark in attack it needed to turn its possession into meaningful chances.
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Bristol City vs Nottingham Forest will kick off at 5.45am AEST Saturday morning (7.45pm BST Friday).
