West Ham 1-2 Nottingham Forest: Premier League – live reaction

 Minute-by-minute report: Goals from Morgan Gibbs-White and Nikola Milenkovic gave Nottingham Forest a huge boost in their hopes for Champions League qualification.

17:04

And here’s what Graham Potter had to say:

It was an even game, we concede the early goal from a mistake which is disappointing then we made changes and they scored straight after. Marginal offside that took a while to sort out. Credit to the players, they kept pushing, they gave everything. We just came up a bit short.

Forest are going for what they are and we wanted three points and it was a bit stop start. The goal makes it difficult for the referee. They scored after the subs but then we pushed and pushed, scored a good goal and had other opportunities but fell short.

16:55

Here’s Nuno’s reaction:

A lot of stoppages in the game so we were anxious to get the game finished. Until the West Ham goal we were in control. Then the anxiety comes when we allowed the goal and everything is difficult from there. Matz [Sels] did great again so we’re happy.

We started really well. Previous games a lot of bad things happened to us but today that was not the case. Today we pressed good, got a good goal, started well in the second half, on the front foot. Generally a good performance. The players worked hard to put West Ham under pressure.

16:38

Premier League Match Centre on the check for Forest’s second goal: “The referee’s call of goal was checked and confirmed by VAR – with Milenkovic in an onside position and Domínguez in an offside position, but deemed not to be impacting on play.

“The semi-automated offside technology was not available to the VAR in this incident. There were also issues with the VAR communications to the on-field officials.”

16:30

We played so long that Arsenal v Newcastle is kicking off NOW. Watch the football, watch it!

Right, as it stands in the Champions League qualification race:

2. Arsenal – 68 points from 36 games

3. Newcastle – 66 points from 36 games

4. Chelsea – 66 points from 37 games

5. Aston Villa – 66 points from 37 games

6. Manchester City – 65 points from 36 games

7. Nottingham Forest – 65 points from 37 games

FT: West Ham 1-2 Nottingham Forest

16:26

After a scramble in the visitors’ box, another Sels save, and some very late yellow cards handed out by Sam Barrott, that’s it – game, set and match Forest. They can start thinking about next week’s Champions League showdown with Chelsea now, because those top five hopes are still very much alive and kicking.

They went 2-0 up through Morgan Gibbs-White and Nikola Milenkovic and, although Jarrod Bowen made it very tense late on, Forest survived and clung onto the three points.

We ended up playing to the 117 minute mark thanks to various VAR and refereeing delays.