Exeter 2 Nottingham Forest 2 (2-4 pens): Premier League high-flyers survive huge scare against 10-men League One side

NECO WILLIAMS scored the winning punishment successful a shootout arsenic Nottingham Forest survived a immense scare successful Devon.

With the crippled tied astatine 2-2 aft 23 MINUTES of stoppages and different fractional an hr of extra-time, the crippled went to penalties.

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Josh Magennis netted the archetypal extremity from adjacent range[/caption]

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Taiwo Awoniyi enactment Forest into the pb earlier the break[/caption]

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Magennis was again connected the scoresheet to level for Exeter successful the 2nd half[/caption]

Matz Sels was the leader for ForestPA

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Heartbreaking for the League One minnows, Rees Cole and Angus MacDonald failed to person theirs and Williams stood up to occurrence the decisive punishment to triumph 4-2 successful the shootout.

Josh Magennis had Forest rocking erstwhile helium fired Exeter into a fifth-minute lead.

Romon Sosa and Taiwo Awoniyi turned the crippled connected the caput by half-time, but a Willy Bony ain goal, deflecting a Magennis effort past his ain keeper, aft the interruption set-up a cracker.

Exeter were reduced to 10 men erstwhile debutant Ed Turns was sent disconnected with 4 minutes near aft being fixed a consecutive reddish for a precocious tackle connected Morgan Gibbs-White.

The Grecians beryllium a whopping 58 places beneath Forest successful football’s pecking order.

And the Premier League nine made 10 changes to their starting line-up with lone Danilio keeping his spot from the broadside that thumped Brighton 7-0.

But immoderate complacency that this was going to beryllium a stroll was dispelled wrong 5 minutes.

Demetri Mitchell recovered abstraction connected the near borderline of the container to sprout with his left-foot.

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Matz Sels was the leader successful the shootout[/caption]

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Exeter enactment up a large combat but did not clasp their nervus from the spot[/caption]

Keeper Carlos Miguel made a implicit pig’s receptor of it by fumbling the ball.

And Magennis was connected manus to occurrence location the rebound into the bare net.

Forest tied the scores done a portion of bully idiosyncratic accomplishment you would expect astatine the apical level.

Sosa, who scored successful the 3rd circular triumph implicit Luton, was astatine it again by riding a mates of Exeter tackles aft being played successful by Ibrahim Sangare earlier expertly placing a changeable past Whitworth.

Whitworth produced a large portion of goalkeeping erstwhile helium someway managed to fling himself full-length to claw a Jack McMillan volley circular the post.

But Forest moved successful beforehand with a portion of beauteous prime from Awoniyi.
Sangare played a beauteous walk into the Forest ace, with his backmost to extremity and crowded by 4 Grecians defenders.

And helium turned connected a six-pence connected the extremity of the container to curl a superb changeable past Whitworth.

But Exeter were backmost successful it aft the break.

From a corner, Miguel could lone thenar a Magennis header consecutive backmost to the striker, who changeable debased done a crowded six-yard box.

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Carlos Miguel made an mistake for Exeter’s opener[/caption]

The shot took a deflection disconnected Boly to bushed the keeper.

It proved to beryllium the past portion of the enactment Miguel saw arsenic helium hobbled disconnected with a hamstring injury, with regular Matz Sels coming on.

And however they needed the Belgium keeper erstwhile Niskanen exchanged passes with Magennis earlier his almighty debased effort was saved.

With 20 minutes near it was clip for Forest to commencement bringing connected their large guns. First Elliot Anderson and Morgan Gibbs-White replacing Ryan Yates and Sangare.

Gibbs-White combined with Anderson earlier seeing his almighty debased changeable kept retired by Whitworth.

Exeter were dealt a stroke with 4 minutes near erstwhile Turns was fixed a harsh consecutive reddish by ref Andrew Kitchen. His tackle was a small precocious connected Gibbs-White but the authoritative deemed it excessively high.

Whitworth and Awoniyi collided 2 minutes into the 10 added for stoppages.

Both players received attraction but the Forest striker needed 10 minutes of aesculapian treatment to a caput wounded earlier being carried disconnected connected a stretcher

Chris Wood came connected arsenic the crippled had different 8 minutes to spell arsenic the timepiece passed 10pm.

And Pat Jones astir snatched a celebrated triumph successful the NINETEENTH infinitesimal of stoppage clip but fired an angled effort inches wide of the near post.

Then incredibly Jay Bird was enactment done but his effort was kept retired by Sels.

And past successful the 23rd infinitesimal stoppage clip Gibbs-White rattled the bar.

Wood saw a superb header kept retired arsenic Forest laid siege successful other clip but Exeter held connected for pens, earlier a heartbreaking extremity for the hosts.

Awoniyi had to beryllium carried off