Chris Wooden heaped extra distress on a blunt Crystal Palace with the decisive objective in a scrappy 1-0 victory on the Metropolis Floor.
Regardless of Eberechi Eze and Eddie Nketiah’s greatest efforts – each hitting the woodwork – Oliver Glasner’s facet had been unable to unlock Forest’s cussed backline, and have now picked up three factors from their opening eight matches.
They’re one in every of 4 Premier League groups – alongside Ipswich, Southampton and Wolves – but to discover a successful method this season.
Eventual scorer Wooden missed a hat-trick of possibilities earlier than unleashing the winner, accountable for practically all of Forest’s first-half xG worth (1.15), going closest when connecting with Elliot Anderson’s teasing cross.
Ryan Yates hit the publish from a looping header at one finish, whereas Nketiah struck the body of Matz Sels’ objective with a long-ranger on the different, however clear-cut possibilities continued to be at a premium.
An identical sample continued after the break till Eze drew a beautiful fingertip save from Sels at full stretch, earlier than Wooden lastly made persistence pay, his strike squeezing past a blundering Dean Henderson to earn Forest their first dwelling win of the marketing campaign.
Wooden has now scored seven of Forest’s final 10 league objectives and 5 of their eight this season, to distinction with Palace’s apparent struggles in that division – since their top-flight return in 2013-14, they’ve failed to attain in 150 video games, 28 greater than every other facet.