Wood's double fires Forest past Leicester and up to fifth

Chris Wood continued his red-hot scoring form with a second-half double that sent Nottingham Forest fifth in the Premier League after a 3-1 win at East Midlands rivals Leicester.

Wood has netted seven Premier League goals this season putting him three behind top scorer Erling Haaland, while the New Zealand international also moved joint-second on Forest’s all-time Premier League goals list.

In an entertaining first half, Forest went ahead at the King Power Stadium in the 16th minute after Facundo Buonanotte and James Justin both failed to clear allowing Ryan Yates to arrow in first time from outside the box.

But the visitors were quickly pegged back seven minutes later after some fine work from Harry Winks saw the midfielder cross for Jamie Vardy, who finished from close range with what turned out to be Leicester’s only shot on target of the match.

Two minutes after the equaliser, Leicester goalkeeper Mads Hermansen pulled off a stunning save to deny Nicolas Dominguez, which Sky Sports’ Jamie Carragher described as “Schmeichel-like”.

But Hermansen could do nothing to stop Wood’s first goal just two minutes into the second half as the 32-year-old clinically fired home on the spin inside the box.

Wood then grabbed his second in the 60th minute as he took advantage of further poor Leicester defending with a looping header for his fifth goal in five games.

Yates missed a glorious chance to add a fourth as Leicester boss Steve Cooper suffered defeat against his former side to leave the Foxes 14th and six points above the relegation zone.

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