Aston Villa 2-1 Nottingham Forest: Emery´s side hold on to boost top-four hopes

Aston Villa held connected to gain a 2-1 triumph implicit Nottingham Forest to support their hopes of a top-four decorativeness successful the Premier League alive.

The Villa Park faithful were treated to 2 goals successful 2 minutes aboriginal successful the archetypal half, with Morgan Rogers and Donyell Malen putting them 2-0 up wrong 15 minutes.

The erstwhile ghosted successful down Forest’s defence to conscionable Youri Tielemans’ lofted pass, portion Malen fired Ian Maatsen’s transverse past Matz Sels from adjacent range.

A much-improved second-half show from Forest saw half-time substitute Jota Silva halve the shortage aft helium neatly turned Villa’s defence to prime retired the bottommost corner.

Forest’s unit did not crook into a precocious equaliser, though, with Elliot Anderson curling an effort conscionable wide of the post, portion Murillo struck the crossbar with a almighty effort successful stoppage time.

Villa extended their winning streak to 7 games successful each competitions contempt missing precocious chances, with Marco Asensio and Tielemans denied by Sels, who did brilliantly to smother Marcus Rashford’s onslaught earlier clawing distant the rebound.

Unai Emery’s broadside determination sixth, level connected points with Manchester City, who look Manchester United connected Sunday, portion Forest stay third, missing the accidental to adjacent the spread to Arsenal.

Three consecutive wins successful the league #AVLNFO pic.twitter.com/UyZ2W7WLKs

— Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) April 5, 2025

Data Debrief: Villa connected a roll

Villa person a large week coming up, with a Champions League quarter-final first-leg against Paris Saint-Germain connected the horizon, and they continued their mentation with different victory.

It is the archetypal clip they person won 7 consecutive games successful each competitions since a 10-match winning streak betwixt March and April 2019 successful the Championship.

In the top-flight, it is their archetypal specified tally since March 1981 (also seven).

After Arsenal dropped points earlier connected Saturday, Forest could person closed successful connected second, but person present mislaid 4 of their past 5 Premier League distant games (W1), having mislaid conscionable 2 of their archetypal 11 connected the roadworthy this play (W7 D2).