JAKARTA - Nottingham Forest moved away from the red zone of the English League standings after slaughtering Sunderland with a landslide score of 5-0 in the 34th week match at the Sunderland of Light Stadium, Friday local time (Saturday morning WIB).
Trai Hume's own goal started Forest's goal spree before Chris Wood, Morgan Gibbs-White, Igor Jesus and Elliot Anderson successively scored against the hosts, the Premier League's official website noted.
The victory makes Forest now have 39 points from 34 matches in 16th place in the English League standings, eight points ahead of the relegation zone.
On the other hand, the defeat keeps Sunderland in 11th place in the English League table with 46 points from 34 games, three points from the European competition zone.
Forest immediately demonstrated an attacking game when the match started and even threatened through Omari Hutchinson's shot, but the ball was saved by Sunderland goalkeeper Robin Roefs.
The visiting team could take the lead in the 17th minute after Sunderland fullback Trai Hume scored an own goal, so the score became 1-0.
Nottingham were able to double their lead to 2-0 in the 31st minute after Chris Wood's shot managed to break Sunderland's goal.
Vitor Pereira's squad is still not satisfied and increased their lead to 3-0 after Morgan Gibbs-White's shot tore through the Sunderland goal in the 34th minute.
Only three minutes later, Nottingham increased their lead to 4-0 through a goal scored by Igor Jesus taking advantage of a rebound in the 37th minute.
Entering the second half, Sunderland managed to break Nottingham's goal through Daniel Ballard, but was not confirmed by the referee due to a foul after going through VAR review.
Sunderland again threatened, this time through Enzo Le Fee's shot, but the opportunity was thwarted by Nottingham goalkeeper Matz Sels.
Entering the second half of extra time, Nottingham was able to increase their lead to 5-0 through Elliot Anderson's goal in the 75th minute and the score remained until the end of the match.
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