Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis stormed onto the pitch to confront manager Nuno Espirito Santo after watching his side fumble Champions League qualification following a 2-2 draw with already-relegated Leicester City.
Nuno’s side looked certainties to qualify for Europe’s premier club competition at the start of April until a run of just one win in the last six which has left them in the last-chance saloon.
Chris Wood’s 20th goal of the season put them on course to beat their East Midlands rivals, after Morgan Gibbs-White earlier cancelled out Conor Coady’s opener.
Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis went on the pitch at full-time to remonstrate with Nuno Espirito Santo after the 2-2 draw against Leicester pic.twitter.com/CdAMHbhTwe
— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) May 11, 2025They are no longer in charge of their own destiny as even if they win their final two games, including a final-day meeting with Chelsea, it might not be enough unless Aston Villa, Manchester City or Newcastle United drop points along the way.
The hosts knew that victory would send them back into the top five following Chelsea’s defeat at Newcastle and they started brightly, with Wood having two chances to put his side into an early lead.
Having been unable to make the breakthrough, the nerves began to increase and it got worse when Leicester took a 16th-minute lead.
A long throw fell to Bilal El Khannous on the edge of the area and his shot, which took a nick off Wood, was parried by Matz Sels, with Coady in position to head home the rebound.
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Elanga sent in another wicked delivery, this time from a free-kick, and Gibbs-White nodded home at the near post for a vital equaliser.
Nicolas Dominguez’s powerful shot was parried by goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk and the New Zealand international had the goal at his mercy from the rebound but could not direct an instinctive header into the empty net.
They finally made the breakthrough in the 56th minute as Wood atoned for his earlier misses in style.
Forest looked to be seeing it out until Buonanotte stuck the knife in in the 81st minute as he danced into the area and slotted into the corner.
Marinakis grabbed the headlines at full-time as the extent of Forest’s stumble hit home.
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