Sky Sports Update: Ten-player Forest fight back to hold Brentford after more VAR dramas….

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Match report and highlights as 10-player Nottingham Forest fight back to draw with Brentford; Nicolas Dominguez and Christian Norgaard scored the goals; hosts had Moussa Niakhate sent off while Brentford were controversially denied a penalty by VAR

Nicolas Dominguez’s goal on his home debut secured a 1-1 draw for 10-player Nottingham Forest against Brentford at the City Ground in another game dominated by VAR.

Dominguez guided a looping header over Brentford goalkeeper Mark Flekken in the second half only seven minutes after Christian Norgaard had nodded the visitors in front.

Norgaard’s goal, headed in from Mathias Jensen’s free-kick, came directly after Moussa Niakhate had been shown a second yellow card for a studs-up foul on Yoanne Wissa following a VAR check.

Just 24 hours after Tottenham’s acrimonious win over Liverpool, the VAR officials once again found themselves in the spotlight, rejecting two Brentford penalty appeals in first-half stoppage time, including an apparent handball by Dominguez, who appeared to make contact with the ball when raising his arm during an aerial challenge.

Forest survived that scare and then held out for 13 minutes of stoppage time, with debutant Murillo clearing a Brentford shot off the line to help clinch a battling draw which moves Steve Cooper’s team up a place to 11th and extends the 13th-placed Bees’ winless run to seven games in all competitions.

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