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📻 IMPORTANT AUCKLAND UPDATE 📻
Forest's late win adds more pressure on former manager
AP •  January 7th, 2026 12:07 pm
Nottingham Forest | Photo: AP
Nottingham Forest have piled the pressure on former manager Nuno Espirito Santo with a 2-1 win at West Ham.
Morgan Gibbs-White won and then converted a penalty in the 89th minute on Wednesday (NZ time) to seal a crucial victory in a clash between two teams fighting for survival in the Premier League.
Forest moved seven points clear of West Ham and the relegation zone. Defeat extended West Ham's winless run to 10 games in the league and will likely raise questions over Nuno's position after less than four months in the job.
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Nuno was fired by Forest earlier this season after a fallout with owner Evangelos Marinakis and was quickly hired by West Ham to boost their bid stay in England's top flight. But he has managed just two wins in 16 games, losing nine along the way.
The latest defeat came despite West Ham going ahead through Murillo's own goal in the 13th minute.
Nicolas Dominguez headed in an equaliser 10 minutes into the second half. Late on, when West Ham goalkeeper Alphonse Areola crashed into Gibbs-White, Forest had the chance to seal the win, following a VAR review.
Gibbs-White, who took a heavy blow to the face, stepped up and fired his spot kick down the centre of the goal for his sixth of the season.
