Forest: Marinakis actions due to Awoniyi injury

Nottingham Forest person said proprietor Evangelos Marinakis stormed onto the pitch against Leicester City connected Sunday due to the fact that of the "deep frustration" helium felt astatine seeing guardant Taiwo Awoniyi successful pain, and denied determination was a confrontation with manager Nuno Espirito Santo.

The incidental took spot successful the aftermath of Forest's 2-2 draw against Leicester, which saw them suffer crushed successful the contention for Champions League qualification. Marinakis recovered his mode onto the transportation and chopped an irate fig arsenic helium remonstrated with Espirito Santo.

The Forest manager said Marinakis' frustrations stemmed from the concern astir Awoniyi, who clattered the station successful the closing stages. The guardant went disconnected to person attraction but looked connected disposable symptom aft rejoining the game. Forest announced connected Tuesday that the Nigeria planetary has undergone abdominal surgery.

The nine enactment retired a connection connected Tuesday explaining their owner's actions.

"His absorption was 1 of heavy care, responsibility, and affectional concern successful 1 of our own. He didn't conscionable spot it arsenic an isolated incident, but arsenic thing that reflected the values and unity of the full team," they said.

"In moments similar that helium demonstrates his leadership, not conscionable done words, but done enactment and presence. In the last 10 minutes of the game, erstwhile helium saw our subordinate intelligibly successful discomfort, struggling done disposable pain, it became progressively hard for him to enactment connected the sidelines.

"His heavy vexation astatine seeing our subordinate lying connected the crushed successful terrible symptom -- thing nary 1 with genuine attraction could disregard -- triggered him to spell onto the pitch. It was instinctive, human, and a reflection of conscionable however overmuch this squad and its radical mean to him. He would bash the aforesaid again if specified an unfortunate lawsuit were ever to reoccur.

"The information of the substance is determination was nary confrontation, with Nuno oregon with others, either connected the transportation oregon wrong the stadium. There was lone shared vexation betwixt each of america that the aesculapian squad should ne'er person allowed the subordinate to continue."