Having struck out on his own as the top Brazilian scorer in any Premier League season with 16, frontman Igor Thiago now has another target in his sights. The last South American player to break the 20-goal barrier in a campaign was Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero, who netted 21 in 2018-19.
Dyche despairs at defeat
Nottingham Forest head coach Sean Dyche and his players faced the wrath of their travelling support as a much-changed team slumped to a 1-0 Europa League defeat against Sporting Braga on Thursday.
Dyche put the defeat down to “one minute of madness”, with Morgan Gibbs-White’s penalty miss compounded by an own goal from Ryan Yates a mere 55 seconds later.
Despite his spot-kick woe on the continent, Gibbs-White’s league tally of five makes him the Reds’ top scorer, and, encouragingly, he has bagged a goal in each of their last two league away games.
Forest missing Wood
In the absence of last season’s top scorer Chris Wood, Forest’s failure to find the net is eye-catchingly pronounced – undoubtedly one of the main reasons they find themselves in 17th place, just five points clear of the drop zone.
Only rock-bottom Wolves (15) have scored fewer goals in the league than Forest’s 21, and nobody has failed to find the net in more games than the 11 blanks registered by Dyche’s men.