(Premier League 2022/2023): Highlights Aston Villa - Nottingham Forest

Right from the far side of Villa Park, as Young tries to link up down the right flank. It's intercepted by Neocate, but then his clearance is deflected straight to Ollie Watkins, who drives across the face of goal and wide of the target. First chance for the in-form marksman. Ollie Watkins, seven England caps to his name these days as well. Very inadvertent, a bit unfortunate, but how often have we seen that in recent weeks, that ricochets just fall kindly for the opposition. Konza heads it away and it'll be picked up by Buendia in midfield. He feeds it out towards Moreno, who turns it quickly down the left-hand side, looking for Douglas Luiz. It's beaten off him by Morgan Gibbs-White, wins it well, and plays it down the right-hand side for Nico Williams. Low ball in and cleared away towards the edge of the box, and Koyate runs onto it and hits a shot which is deflected by Buendia, and wide and away for a corner kick. Good move from Forrest. Yeah, that's terrific work again. Gibbs-White there, just nicks the ball off Villa play. He plays it wide to Williams, lovely square pass, Johnson tried to get the first one, but it was a bullet of a shot going towards goal and deflected. Many chances for either side, the best one, courtesy of an inadvertent ricochet. Off a Neokate clearance which fell to Ollie Watkins, now they've planted it down the right side, and Neokate is caught out and the cross comes in low towards Watkins, and it comes off him last, I think, Watkins, as Keylor Navas got a touch onto Watkins and out it went for a goal kick. It was Leon Bailey with the run down the right-hand side, put the low ball in towards the near post, Watkins went in to meet it at the near post, chested down by Toffolo as well forward, and that's forward towards Johnson, inside left channel, good save by Emiliano Martinez with his legs, and never got excited because Johnson was always offside. Again, we're right in line with it, he was two or three yards offside, Johnson, and sure enough after the save has been made by Martinez, Johnson flag goes up. It was a poor finish, though, that's the thing. OK, he was offside, but Johnson's gone in, he's on his own. Forest's subs remaining on the bench, Oro Mangala, Taiwo Wanyi, Jesse Lingard, Sam Surridge, Emmanuel Dennis, Scott McKenna, Andre Ayew and goalkeeper Wayne Hennessy. Traore away here down the right-hand side, sends it low across the penalty area, and it's put straight back to him by Shelby and tucked in by Traore. And Aston Villa are in front, and it is a shocking start to the second half by Forest. The ball over the top right-hand side, found Traore in loads of space, he cut into the penalty area and pulled it back, Keylor Navas got his hand to it, touched it away to Shelby, and Shelby, instead of clearing it, passed it straight back to Traore, who slotted it into the net, and it's 1-0 Aston Villa, three minutes into the second half. Well, I don't know what they are actually thinking at that moment. And now Traore's gone away, Toffolo's been attracted to the ball, little ball over the top, and what was Shelby thinking? Gibbs White, higher this time, good distance on it, Martinez comes and gets two fists on it and punches it well clear. Shelby brings it down, leaves it for Toffolo, to sweep it back to the left-hand side for Gibbs White. Gibbs White taking on Ashley Young, cuts inside, he dribbles his way past Ashley Young and hits the shot! And then they're diving Villa players in front of him, and it flicks off one of them and away for another corner. That was good from Morgan Gibbs White, good driving run. Well, it's important there, Gibbs White, he's got the ball on the edge of the 18-yard box, and he's driven straight across the line. I think it was Konza who dived to his feet. He was going goal-bound. Here's Danilo, winning it well in midfield and carrying it towards the edge of the penalty area, and shooting low to Martinez is right, but he makes the save. It's a decent driving run from Danilo, but Martinez denies the Argentinians stopping the Brazilian. And later, Southampton play Manchester City. Forrests have it again with Danilo, turning nicely on halfway. Forward to Gibbs White, who tried to give it him back, but gives it away to Buendia, and Buendia over the top, looking for Watkins, headed away by Felipe, comes back for Watkins, Felipe said it went up in the air, Watkins volleyed it well wide of the target, never got hold of it at all. Again, Forrests are makers of their own downfall, aren't they? Again, what they were doing in the first half, they were being responsible with the ball, particularly Gibbs White. This is Ezri Konza at the corner of his own penalty area, chips it into midfield, and suddenly there's loads of space for Jacob Ramsey, who dropped into the hole, and now he lays it off to his left for Alex Moreno, trying to take on Nico Williams, hits the byline, pulls it back, and the shot is driven wide first time by Emi Buendia. And it wasn't wide by very much, but it all started because Jacob Ramsey ended up with loads of space in midfield. Moreno on the overlapping run, beat Nico Williams and crossed, good pullback, Buendia's shot wide. Now McGinn has it once more and rolls it infield to Ramsey. Ramsey turning inside the centre circle, Williams wins it off him, good tackle, now De Lillo springs forward, De Lillo hits the shot from a long way out. 25 yards wide of the target. Yeah, De Lillo's got a bit of a rush of blood there. Again, a nice bit of counter-attacking, De Lillo's running into the heart of the defence, and he's trying to pull the trigger from 30, 35 yards. Villa ending the day against ten men, looking to wrap it up with a second, as Ashley Young chips it forward towards the scorer of the first, Bertrand Triore turns it infield to Watkins, Watkins trying to take on Felipe, who dives in, lays it to his left, this is Jacob Ramsey, Ramsey gives it back to Watkins, sidesteps his man, chips it in. Watkins gets his goal, Villa get their second, and the ten men of Forrest are beaten at Villa Park. With a goal four minutes into added time, it was coming, Forrest looked out on their feet, they've got midfielders playing in defence, they've got attackers as the last man at some times, hands on knees, heads down, 2-0 Aston Villa, and Forrest in the relegation zone once more.