Nottingham Forest defeated Sunderland 5-0, with Morgan Gibbs-White scoring and assisting. This victory moves Forest eight points clear of the relegation zone.
Red-hot Morgan Gibbs-White may have just boosted Nottingham Forest clear of relegation danger with a goal and an assist in the Tricky Trees' 5-0 pounding of Sunderland on Friday at the Stadium of Light.
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The visitors scored four of their goals in the first half, an own goal joined by Gibbs-White, Chris Wood, and Igor Jesus on the ledger before Elliot Anderson nabbed Forest's fifth deep in second half stoppage time.
The Tricky Trees pull eight points clear of 18th-place Spurs and six ahead of 17th-place West Ham.
Gibbs-White has seven goals in his last seven Premier League games including a hat trick last time out as he presses for a place in Thomas Tuchel's England lineup.
Sunderland's hopes of European qualification take a hit, as their 46 points, good for 11th on the table and just three back of seventh-place Bournemouth, is now accompanied by a goal differential of minus-9. That figure is the worst of any team above 17th on the table.
Forest host Aston Villa on Thursday in the first leg of their UEFA Europa League semifinal tie, then visit Chelsea on Monday, May 4 in the Premier League.
Sunderland face relegated Wolves at the Molineux on Saturday, May 2.
Nottingham Forest won 5-0 against Sunderland, scoring four goals in the first half.
Morgan Gibbs-White contributed significantly by scoring one goal and providing an assist.
Nottingham Forest is now eight points clear of the relegation zone.
Morgan Gibbs-White has scored seven goals in his last seven Premier League games.
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Trai Hume o.g. 17', Chris Wood 31', Morgan Gibbs-White 34', Igor Jesus 37', Elliot Anderson 90+5'
Taiwo Awoniyi is in the 18 and makes a quick reverse pass to Elliot Anderson, who deserves the goal.
Ryan Yates and Luca Netz enter the fray for Hutchinson and Jesus in the 67th minute.
Offside check is on after Sunderland appear to pull one back, and a foul check is also ongoing.
Granit Xhaka's free kick is nodded back across goal by Nordi Mukiele and Dan Ballard bursts toward a floating ball to head home in the 60th minute.
After review, Mukiele gets a piece of Matz Sels before the keeper can get to the loose ball.
Sunderland put Reinildo in for Chris Rigg, while Forest replace Ibrahim Sangare with Nicolas Dominguez.
At the moment, Forest look set to move very close to safety while Sunderland's goal differential has sunk to minus-8 and their European hopes are being weakened considerably by this lopsided scoreline.
Another set piece worked all the way onto the scoreboard.
This time it's Igor Jesus getting credit for his work in snapping a pass home from the back post.
Another short corner is spun to the back post.
Igor Jesus knocks it from the back post toward the spot with a header, and Gibbs-White snaps it through traffic and over the line.
Roefs makes a horrible decision with a short pass from the back, and Chris Wood gets a piece of it.
The ex-Newcastle man is then right there to get a pass from spoils collector Morgan Gibbs-White.
He dinks it past Roefs for 2-0.
Robin Roefs makes one big save but the play goes down and back and Forest win a corner.
Omari Hutchinson spins in a towering cross and Trai Hume follows Igor Jesus to the back post.
Jesus heads the ball back into the field of play from a tight angle and it clips Hume and turns back inside the post.
Very unlucky.
Sels, Williams, Cunha, Milenkovic, Aina, Sangare, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Hutchinson, Igor Jesus, Wood
Vitor Pereira's side has clawed its way to within a few points of safety by going unbeaten in their last five PL games (2W-3D-0L) while simultaneously reaching the semifinals of the Europa League, where they will face fellow PL side Aston Villa over two legs beginning next week. Before the unbeaten run began, Nottingham Forest sat 17th in the table, only above the relegation line by way of goal difference. Fast-forward six weeks, and the gap is now five points with five games left to play.
Sunderland achieved their top objective weeks and maybe even months ago: a second season in the top flight after eight years adrift in the Championship and League One. Regis Le Bris' side was well positioned in the European race until the start of 2026 before they hit a rougher patch, but the hard work had been done and the Black Cats sit comfortably mid-table (11th) with 46 points and still an outside shot at qualifying for Europe if they finish the season well.
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Forest already struggled to created enough scoring chances (fourth-fewest goals in the PL - 36 in 33 games) before winger Callum Hudson-Odoi was lost for the rest of the season. At the same time, Sunderland are a nightmare to play against and don't give you any freebies, especially at home. Sunderland 1-0 Nottingham Forest.
Kick off time: 3pm ET Friday (April 24)
Venue: Stadium of Light — Sunderland
TV Channel: USA
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