Late draw felt inevitable after Forest fail to hold on

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  • Author, Nick Mashiter
  • Role, 大象传媒 Sport football news reporter

Forest dropped 26 points from winning positions last season and the air of inevitability hung heavy over the home supporters as they left the City Ground.

There was a sense Antoine Semenyo's late leveller was typical Forest after Nuno Espirito Santo's side had done the hard work to put themselves in control in the first half.

They recovered well from Danilo's sickening ankle injury and Chris Wood's opener was deserved but they failed to build on it.

Bournemouth struggled to break through and clearly missed the departed Dominic Solanke, with 拢40.2m record signing Evanilson, who signed from Porto on Friday, not registered in time to feature.

Yet Forest still let their visitors back into the game and, Willy Boly's second-half header aside, created little of worth going forward in the second half.

Morgan Gibbs-White was unable to create while the defending for the goal gifted the Cherries their late way back.