All Whites star Wood fires Forest to statement win
New Zealand star Chris Wood scored twice as Nottingham Forest cruised to a 3-1 win over Brentford at the City Ground.
Playing its first Premier League game under new boss Keith Andrews, Brentford was little match for a rampant Forest on Sunday, and the question marks will linger over their prospects for this season after Thomas Frank's departure.
Forest needed just five minutes to get the ball rolling as Wood prodded home after a corner.
Dan Ndoye, making his league debut for Forest, made it 2-0 with a brilliant diving header from Morgan Gibbs-White's pinpoint cross.
Wood doubled up in first-half stoppage time, as a relentless Forest put the game out of sight – the New Zealander took in Elliot Anderson's perfect pass, rounded Caoimhin Kelleher and slotted into an empty net.
Igor Thiago’s 78th-minute penalty reduced the arrears as Forest failed to add to its lead after the break, although Gibbs-White went close, but it was too little too late for Brentford.
