Coventry 1 Nottingham Forest 2: Full time report

Feb 1 2011

Two freak goals extended Nottingham Forest's winning sequence in the npower Championship to five games and continued Coventry's miserable run of late.

Marlon King broke the deadlock against his former employers midway through an enthralling first half, although City's cheers were soon silenced as Forest turned things around within the space of 10 minutes.

Lewis McGugan, with his 11th of the season, levelled with a fortunate long-range shot which deceived Keiren Westwood.

Robert Earnshaw then converted amid a static Sky Blues defence who had momentarily stopped having seen Guy Moussi pull up with a strained hamstring before managing to whip in a cross.

The nature of the result only served to highlight the contrast in fortunes between the two sides who have somewhat traded fortunes over the second third of the season.

Forest, with just one defeat in their last 13, are now up to fourth in the table while Coventry have slumped from fifth to 15th on the back of a nine-match winless streak.

The Sky Blues suffered a big blow in the pre-match warm-up with the loss of returning midfielder Sammy Clingan, who was part of two changes from Saturday's 3-2 defeat to Birmingham.

And it will have left manager Aidy Boothroyd rueing the deadline-day loss of teenage prodigy Conor Thomas to Liverpool.

Forest also surrendered a winning position to go down 3-2 against Barclays Premier League opposition at the weekend, and boss Billy Davies made five changes to his XI from the side who started at West Ham - left-back Paul Konchesky making his Reds debut following his loan switch from Merseyside.