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00:00Palace in their change-strip. Kick-off, there was a moment when Everecci Ezer saw
00:08Matt Sells off his line and was thinking of shooting from the centre spot.
00:12Goalkeeper spotted it and went back on his line.
00:18Katia got it back. Ezer going at Forrest here. He got to a position in front of
00:27goal between the posts, so to speak. Established international, as you would
00:32say these days. Here's Kamada. That's a go. Slightly slipping as he hit it.
00:41Ezer and then Katia. That's the sort of service that he can thrive on.
00:49In the air from Mitchell. Anderson. Making space where there seem to be none.
00:58Here's Moreno. Hasn't a doy. Chris Woods hardly had a touch yet, but he's looking for the ball
01:05in the middle if it comes across. What a run from Anderson.
01:11Well, Morgan Gibbs-White would have been proud of that.
01:14Wow. Twice he gets himself somewhere where he had no right. The initial touch from Anderson,
01:20by the way, before this was unbelievable. And then he finds himself, he plays the ball out.
01:26And when he gets the ball back again, you're thinking he can't do it again, can he?
01:30Goes past three, four players there and that almost deserved a goal. It was wonderful.
01:37Lots of passing, but this kind of situation is so important. And Chris Wood nearly
01:41comes into the back post and collects another goal to his impressive tally.
01:48Anderson with a real whip on it.
01:55Well, Woods put it wide, but he's in the right place.
01:57He's going to struggle to hold it up like Matata does,
01:59but this is what he is good at with the ball.
02:01Shooting and very nearly scoring.
02:04He's got a threat on it again. Back in by Moreno.
02:10Off the post. Well, he's getting closer and closer.
02:19Wood! Well, he got there. Any sort of pace off his right foot.
02:25And that rather sums up Chris Wood's first half.
02:27Yates, Elanga, lovely play from Forrest.
02:30But again, the ball that couldn't elude.
02:35Maxence Lacroix. Hughes into Kamadar. Here's Munoz again.
02:43Oh, it's too strong, too long.
02:45And Munoz punched the air in frustration.
02:49Here he is now and he's not closed down.
02:51He's not working hard enough to score.
02:53Apologising. Here he is now and he's not closed down.
02:56He's not working hard enough to stop the cross.
02:58And Ezer! And Kamadar!
03:02Bang in front of goal, but was offside.
03:07Well, Sells wasn't to know that, was he?
03:13Well, let's have a look at this.
03:14Slits Munoz with the ball in.
03:17And it's fortunate how it falls to Ezer.
03:20It's probably not the best save, but that second follow-up save.
03:24Look how big he makes himself, the shape, that big leg up.
03:28As I mentioned, offside, Kamadar.
03:31But Sells wasn't to know that at the time.
03:33Well, it was a very good save.
03:34Depends on Everetti, Ezer, in this situation.
03:38The Palace find themselves in.
03:39And Edinger-Kettier as well.
03:41He's clear here.
03:42Back for Hughes.
03:43Mine-blocked by Moreno.
03:50Two yellow cards already, a third one.
03:52They need to be suspended as well.
03:53Here goes Ezer from long, long range.
03:55And it's the goalkeeper and the crossbar, I think.
04:02Well, he shakes his head because he knows it's not far away.
04:05This is one off the training ground.
04:08The touch out of the feet.
04:08Look at the bend on it.
04:10Incredible.
04:10And I think you've got to be careful.
04:12Incredible.
04:13And I think you're right.
04:14Sells does get a touch on this to push it just there onto the crossbar.
04:19It's a wonderful save.
04:24Made the difference.
04:26Touch off the glove.
04:30Moreno.
04:33Drops for Wood.
04:35Yes, this one scores.
04:39With a bit of help from Dean Henderson.
04:42Well, this has happened before.
04:44This season, he's put them 1-0 up.
04:47And they haven't won any of those games.
04:50But they'll be hoping that they can put that right tonight.
04:54It's not what you call a classical Chris Wood goal.
04:58And when your luck is out, as Crystal Palace's is,
05:03this kind of thing can happen.
05:06Well, it falls to Wood wonderfully, doesn't it?
05:09And it's typical, the defending header, as you say,
05:11when your luck's out, your luck's out.
05:12But look at that from Chris Wood.
05:14We think about how good he is in the box with his heading,
05:19anticipating when the ball's going to drop in the box.
05:22But look at that for technique.
05:24Gets his knee and hip over the ball.
05:25Strikes it hard and low.
05:27Yes, there's an argument that Henderson should get to that.
05:31But because Chris Wood hits it so early,
05:34it catches Henderson out.
05:36And just like that, for all the pressure that Palace have had,
05:40Boris got up the other end and scored.
05:41Isn't that just football?
05:44His fifth goal of the season.
05:46Being stuck in the changing room normally.
05:48Here's Anderson.
05:49Lovely touch from Wood.
05:51And Henderson just about avoids some more embarrassment.
05:55Sticking out a leg.
05:56It was a good stop in the end.
05:58Starting to go one way.
06:01Henderson denied a first Premier League goal again.
06:04And he's still in the mix here in the middle.
06:07Hudson-Odoi.
06:09That would have been more out of Chris Wood's playbook.
06:14La Croix, initially, and Gay, he do well with Chris Wood.
06:18And the way he opens up there, Anderson,
06:21you think he's going to go to the right-hand side.
06:23And that's what momentarily outboxes Henderson.
06:27It's Moreno.
06:28Anderson up with him.
06:29Moreno still going.
06:31Wood wants it played through.
06:32It goes to Anderson.
06:33Instead, Wood's waiting in the middle.
06:34And the Henderson line went up for himself.
06:38Forrest's got a corner.
06:39There might have been more in that.
06:41But that is the risk that Palace are taking.
06:44A lump of stoppage time.
06:46Schlupp.
06:48In goes Mateta.
06:49Makes it happen.
06:50Palace.
06:51Comes back to Jeff Schlupp.
06:52Tries to curl it.
06:54And Sells sticks out an arm to great effect.
06:57This is really well there, Sells,
06:59because I think he will have been unsighted.
07:01Not much more that Schlupp could have done
07:03with that short backlift.
07:05It's a quick corner from Palace.
07:08Hezer.
07:10Comes out towards Lerma.
07:13Williams.
07:17And a shot.
07:19From Sosa.
07:23Aina.
07:29And it's Sells.
07:30And he cuts it out.
07:33With a chance of a headline.
07:41He's got nowhere to go at the moment.
07:44Yates did well.
07:45It breaks Forrest's way.
07:47And now, they're away here.
07:51With Jota Silva.
07:54Comes out towards Williams.
07:55And again, they're trying to score
07:57when they could have taken the ball to the corner.
07:59I mean, with that one, though,
08:00when it's sort of 3v1,
08:02you can't blame him.
08:03It doesn't matter for Nottingham Forrest.
08:06Chris Wood has scored an opening goal in a game,
08:09and he's turned out to be a winner.
08:12Which ends a sequence of draws
08:15and a win at home for Nottingham Forrest.
08:17Dean Henderson, their one-time goalkeeper,
08:20was complicit, unfortunately for him.
08:22But Wood took the shot early
08:24and got full reward for it.
08:26And they've won at home in the Premier League
08:28for the first time since April 2nd.
08:30And Oliver Glasner has to take another defeat on the chin.
08:40Forrest's won Palace 0.