Frustrating Forest finally flourish

I was beginning to think that Forest were deliberately not scoring to wind us up last night. So it was a huge relief when Luke Chambers powered home that header twenty minutes from time to give us a richly deserved lead in a completely one-sided match against Scunthorpe.

Dexter Blackstock followed that up with a simple tap-in five minutes later, and that set us up for another comfortable victory, our second in a row following the televised win over Plymouth at the weekend. As a result, we've now gone three points clear of Derby, who incidentally were thrashed 6-1 at Cardiff on Tuesday, a scoreline that our very own scoreboard was only too glad to point out at both half time and full time!

Let's not forget that Scunthorpe had come to Nottingham on the back of a five-match unbeaten run, which included a 4-0 win at Crystal Palace. I really feared another home defeat might be on the cards, as I could really see them terrorising our defence. But thankfully that turned out not to be the case at all. We came out all guns blazing, forcing three corners in the first five minutes, and Scunthorpe were reduced to the odd counter attack, which never came to much at all. We looked very dangerous in attack with Paul Anderson, who was at last given a deserved first team start, Nathan Tyson, Blackstock, and Joe Garner all in the side. Yet at half time, after completely dominating the first half, we still had nothing to show for it.

The second half continued in much the same vein as Forest poured forward going agonisingly close to scoring on several occasions. I was just beginning to think that it would not be our night again when the impressive Chambers headed home from a Chris Cohen corner. And when Blackstock made it two, I felt I could relax a bit, as Scunthorpe had hardly troubled us all night, and looked completely deflated when they conceded the second. There was a rather amusing, if not scary piece of slapstick near the end, though, when Scunny were presented with an open goal, and the ball bounced off the crossbar, and looked like it was going in until Lee Camp appeared out of nowhere at the very last second to claim the ball. Not for nothing is he known as 'Super Camp'!

It has been a pretty good few days for Forest, with back-to-back victories. It was so important to put an end to that bad run of form at home, as the longer the run went on, the more our confidence would suffer, and with Newcastle being the next visitors to the City Ground, it was difficult to see where our next home win was coming from. Now we can go to Peterborough on Saturday in a very confident frame of mind. We're unbeaten in five away games, and Peterborough are in the bottom three, having only won once in ten games so far. With the two wins behind us, there is less pressure on us to get three points, so that may well be an advantage as we can afford to relax a bit more. It would be great if we could go into the international break on the back of three successive victories, but let's not be too greedy!