Nottingham Forest beat 10-man Exeter on sanctions when Devon Double refused | FA CUP

At. At 23.04 there was eventually a result, Nottingham Forest avoided a FA Cup disturbed against 10-man Exeter City after giving up from the last fourth round draw via a 4-2 victory victory. Neco Williams scored the decisive penalty after Matz Sels, who replaced Carlos Miguel midway through the second half, rescued from Reece Cole before Angus Macdonald blasted his spot kick against the cross bar. It was an absorbing competition-room population craneing their necks from the windows of terrace houses on St. James Road to get the best view-but a cruel crescendo to the third level exeter.

Forest had a man’s advantage for 53 minutes after ED-turn was given a straight red card for a high challenge on Morgan Gibbs White, 23 of which was in stopping time in the second half after Taiwo Awoniyi suffered a head injury. At the end, Awoniyi was good enough to greet the forest fans, some of which will make it good to return home at. 4.

For Forest, this was about resuming the business after a week’s long breathing camp in Dubai. Forest’s players spent plenty of time training in pristine spaces, but also enjoyed a period of downtime, including a session platform diving in the name of team binding. Nuno Espírito Santo showed his team how it was done, diving his head in the water with barely a splash. The forest hoped to leave Devon with similar ease. Ola Aina, among the first teams that spared this journey, soon followed, socks and all. However, Nuno had a contingency plan and appointed seven of its starting lineup from 7-0 demolition of Brighton on the bench here.

The motivation for Exeter was a fifth round draw at home to Ipswich, the obvious inspiration 45 miles west along the A38, after Plymouth shocked Liverpool. The Gulf between Exeter and Forest is even bigger, with Nuno’s side the highest ranked team back in the competition and 58 places separating these clubs in the league pyramid. But in the 10 intermediate minutes between Josh Magennis’ opens after Miguel’s Bombert and Ramón Sosa’s Equalization, Exeter, if Manager, Gary Caldwell, began the cup with Wigan in 2013 16. The words were in black and white along the bottom of a throbbing large Bank terrace when the players got out of the tunnel before kick-off. “From the heart of Exeter to the stage of glory – create history,” reads a banner.

It was a dream window. At that time, Awoniyi sent a fine left -fought shot in the lower corner of 37 minutes, forth had restored normal order and long ago claimed their authority. They recovered after Miguel’s mistake at just his third start of the season, the Brazilian fumbling a routine Demetri Mitchell ball into the box to present MAGENNIS with a chance to turn off close. SOSA rode a few weak Exeter challenges to level before Awoniyi earned the forest lead and picked its place from the edge of the box. Ibrahim Sangaré exhibited a few fine touches, Ryan Yates held things ticking next to him at the bottom of the midfield. Danilo was the only survivor of the runcing of Brighton.

Yates spread a chance to open a two-target buffer to forest in the first half of stopping time, and a few minutes into the second period the forest was back on square. Miguel pushed Magennis ‘original header from Ed Francis’ spinning corner against the back post, but with the forest target, Exeter’s captain, an alarm in the box, another shooting target and Willy Boly inadvertently cut his approval in one entry. Miguel was forced off with a apparent injury just before the hour, apparently held in the structure of Exeter’s equalization. Matz Sels, excellent in the Premier League this season, came in, and his first notable contribution was to reject an Ilmari Niskan, shot a few minutes later.

Forest struggled to regain a quite the same feeling of control. Nuno recognized just as much and introduced Elliot Anderson and Gibbs White instead of Yates and Sangaré. Both delivered the desired spark. Within three minutes, Anderson rattled a shot against the side net and shortly afterwards he combined with Gibbs White. Gibbs-White sent a lavish pass that spun against Anderson with the outside of his right trunk, and after receiving the ball back from Anderson sent a shot at Joe Whitworth, the Exeter goalkeeper on loan from Crystal Palace.

Forest seemed hampered by their one-man benefit, but continued to cut out several chances. Jota Silva smuggled the crossbar in the dying seconds of stopping time after pocketing the Caleb Watts inside the Exeter box, and the forest kept Whitworth busy through extra time. Both leaders exhausted their six compensation, allowed after Awoniyi’s concussion substitution. Ultimately, Exeter’s three-man’s three-man defense included Magennis, a veteran striker, Niskanen, a wingback and MacDonald, who had a flawless debut, but for his penalty kick that smuggled the woodwork.