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Cardiff 2-1 Nottingham Forest: Jordan Hugill nets debut goal for Bluebirds after completing loan signing just hours before kick-off
- Cardiff beat Forest 2-1 to take Bluebirds six points clear from relegation zone
- Jordan Hugill scored after six minutes on his debut at the Cardiff City Stadium
- Striker’s loan signing was announced just hours before the evening kick-off
- 20-year-old Isaak Davies doubled Cardiff’s lead and secured all three points
- Keinan Davis scored a late consolation goal for Steve Cooper’s side
Nottingham Forest’s ascent of the Championship table under Steve Cooper has been one of the great transformations of this season.
They were rock bottom of the second tier with one point from seven games when Chris Hughton was sacked in mid September.
This failure by a sensible, widely-respected and experienced coach such as Hughton seemed to suggest the former European champions had become a lost cause under the rapid hire-and-fire regime of Evangalos Marinakis.
Jordan Hugill scored six minutes into his debut after signing from Norwich just hours before
Cooper revived them, however, and hauled them up the table. Victory at struggling Cardiff would have lifted them into the play-off zone but nothing is ever quite so straightforward.
Not in the Championship. Not at Forest. Another opportunity lost to the delight of the home fans, back inside their stadium for the first time for nearly two months, following postponements and two games behind closed doors in accordance with Welsh Covid restrictions.
They returned to see their team secure a much-needed and well-deserved victory, three vital points in the fight to avoid sliding into the third tier for the first time since…
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Source : dailymail
