Nottingham Forest threw away the chance to close in on the automatic promotion places with a Championship defeat to Charlton Athletic.
It was a tale of two strikers during the Championship clash between Nottingham Forest and Charlton Athletic on Tuesday night – one that played and one that didn’t.
While Forest left star man and top scorer Lewis Grabban out of the XI due to a minor injury problem, his opposite number produced a match-winning display as one of the promotion favourites suffered a shock 1-0 home defeat to a team with one win in their last 18 games.
It was Lyle Taylor who netted the winner at the City Ground, firing a brilliant first-time volley past Brice Samba after an inch-perfect Naby Sarr cross. That is nine goals in 12 starts now; not bad for a player in his first Championship campaign.
With TEAMtalk reporting that Nottingham Forest were keen to snap up Charlton’s contract rebel during the January transfer window, the irony has not been lost on the City Ground faithful.
Their one-that-got-away came back to haunt the club that really could have done with him wearing Garibaldi red last night, especially with their over-reliance on Grabban laid bare for the world to see.
£3 million would have been a lot to pay for a striker who will be a free agent in July. But promotion to the Premier League, after two decades in the wilderness, is priceless.
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