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Nuno Espírito Santo goes over to the away end. He claps the Forest fans, and they reciprocate by chanting their manager’s name. Is this the end? Big talks with Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis, and head of football Edu coming up during the week, it would seem.
… although Forest had chances to win it at the end. Igor Jesus hit the post, then Omari Hutchinson cleared the bar twice in as many minutes. Forest are now on a 52-game run of failing to win a Premier League match in which they’ve been behind at half-time. The last time they did it was against Spurs in January 1997, thanks to two goals from Bryan Roy.
FULL TIME: Crystal Palace 1-1 Nottingham Forest
The whistle goes and the two managers share a hug. The result is about right.
90 min +5: Williams curls in from the left. The ball breaks to Hutchinson, down the inside-left channel. He lobs over Henderson but over the bar as well.
90 min +4: Sarr bustles into the Forest box from the right flank. He’s grabbed from behind by Murillo. Penalty? Nope. There was contact, but Sarr was flagged offside before he was fouled. Just off. But just is enough.
90 min +3: Murillo sends Jesus into acres of space down the inside-left channel. He’s eased away from goal by Guehi, but still manages to pearl a rising drive across Henderson and off the right-hand post! Hutchinson then blazes over. Huge escape for Palace!
90 min +2: Murillo slides in on an in-flight Edouard and earns himself a spot in the referee’s notebook.
90 min: There will be five additional minutes.
89 min: Palace replace Mateta with Edouard.
88 min: Two final Forest swaps. Wood and Sangare are replaced by Yates and Igor Jesus.
87 min: Hughes is booked for a cheeky tug on McAtee’s shirt.
86 min: We’re petering out a bit here. Neither team in gung-ho mode.
84 min: Williams is back up. And Hughes is also fine to continue.
83 min: Williams and Hughes clash heads accidentally on the edge of the Palace box. Williams stays down. Hughes gets up quickly but doesn’t look too steady on his feet. On come the medical folk.
82 min: Palace respond with another change of their own, as Wharton makes way for Lerma.
81 min: Here comes another Forest debutant: Hutchinson for Gibbs-White.
79 min: Hughes slides in to win the ball off McAtee. It’s a fair challenge, but McAtee skips about and convinces the referee he’s been caught. Those who tire easily of confected controversy will be pleased that nothing comes of the resulting free kick.
77 min: Now it’s Palace’s turn to pass and probe. And Forest’s turn to hold their shape. This second half is properly in the balance.
75 min: The resulting free kick is swung into the mixer by Wharton. He hangs it too high, and it’s an easy pluck for Sels.
74 min: Esse sashays down the left and looks to have left Gibbs-White behind with a trick, but is clanked to the floor. Gibbs-White is slightly fortunate not to go into the book.
73 min: Forest pass and probe. Palace hold their shape.
71 min: Forest make a double change: Hudson-Odoi and Ndoye are replaced by debutants McAtee and Kalimuendo.
69 min: Hughes sends Lacroix into the Forest box down the left. Lacroix looks for Sarr in the middle but Milenkovic hooks clear. Both sides are going for the winner.
68 min: Aina becomes the third player to go into the book for undue faffing over the restart.
66 min: … and before it can restart, Palace make the first change of the afternoon, with Esse coming on for Devenny. Williams meanwhile is fine to continue.
65 min: Williams is down after landing awkwardly on his back after a 50-50 with Munoz and requires treatment. The game pauses.
63 min: A Forest free kick out on the left. It’s worked to Hudson-Odoi on the left. He crosses. Richards clears. Williams sends it back in. Henderson plucks from the sky. Forest are firmly on top now.
61 min: Williams wedges a pass down the left. Gibbs-White flicks on for Wood, who shovels a first-time shot towards goal. Henderson parries round the post, then the flag goes up for offside anyway. Forest have their tails up.
59 min: Palace nearly respond immediately, Devenny sending Mitchell into space down the left. Mitchell reaches the byline and chips back for Devenny, who gets a header on target. But there’s little power in it, and it’s easy for Sels.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 1-1 Nottingham Forest (Hudson-Odoi 57)
… and then, out of nothing, an equaliser! Ndoye switches play from left to right with a fine pass. Hudson-Odoi barges his way in front of Mitchell, striding down the inside-right channel and into the box. He sweeps a shot towards the bottom-right corner. Off Henderson’s outstretched leg, up and in!
55 min: Hughes blazes a half-chance over from the edge of the box. This match still refuses to take off.
54 min: … and now Mitchell is booked for taking a nanosecond too long over a throw. A faint whiff of levelling things up after a needlessly pernickety decision.
53 min: Murillo holds Mateta under a high ball on the halfway line. He’s not booked, though one more foul might do it. Sels goes into the book, though, for delaying the restart at a goal kick. Slightly strange, seeing he didn’t get the ball back for a while, and his team are losing.
52 min: Ndoye has been sparky since the break. He advances down the left again, and loops a long diagonal towards Wood, who sticks out a leg but can only poke wide right from six yards.
50 min: Ndoye wins another corner down the left. Once again it’s wasted, Anderson hitting it long with everyone at the near post. Goal kick.
48 min: … but otherwise, it’s been a quiet start to the second half. Selhurst, usually so noisy, is strangely subdued at the moment.
46 min: Forest are immediately on the attack, and Ndoye wins a corner down the left. The set piece is a non-event.
Forest get the second half underway. No changes.
Half-time entertainment. Jonathan Wilson on today’s late kick-off.
HALF TIME: Crystal Palace 1-0 Nottingham Forest
El Casico hasn’t been a classico, but Palace will be happy enough. They’ve been the better side and have their reward.
45 min +2: Wharton curls the free kick towards Guehi, who stoops on the right-hand corner of the six-yard box and pings a header off the base of the right-hand post. So close to 2-0!
45 min +1: Sarr is skittled over by Anderson, just to the left of the Forest D. A free kick in a dangerous position.
45 min: There will be one minute of additional time.
44 min: Sarr and Williams come together. Oliver Glasner thinks it’s a foul, and tells it the way he sees it to the fourth official.
42 min: Mitchell tees up Hughes for a shot just to the left of the D. Hughes carves a screamer towards the bottom-right corner. Inches wide. Not sure Sels was getting to that.
41 min: … but having said that, replays show Murillo winning the ball, but also catching his man on the top of the foot. The good news is, Mateta is fine.
39 min: Guehi advances down the inside-left channel and slips a pass infield for Mateta, who is unceremoniously stopped in his tracks by Murillo. Palace want a free kick just to the left of the D, but they’re not getting one. Hard but fair.
