Football news) Nottingham Forest relinquished a lead for the second match in a row as they slipped to a 3-2 defeat to Fulham on Friday. Taiwo Awoniyi gave Forest the perfect start when he scored in the 11th minute after a Ryan Yates corner.  Fulham then struck three times in six minutes in the second half to turn the match around. Tosin Adarabioyo headed the equaliser in the 54th minute from a Willian cross and three minutes later Joao Palhinha scored with a superb left-footed effort.

With the Forest defence in sixes and sevens, Fulham scored again when Harrison Reed headed Bobby De Cordova-Reid's cross goalwards. Lewis O'Brien gave Forest fans some hope with a 77th-minute goal but Steve Cooper's side could not salvage a point. Forest are second-last on the table with four points while Fulham moved up to sixth with 11 points.

"From the first whistle in our first game of the season, we have been on the front foot," Reed said.We have made it difficult against the big teams as well. The manager had some words with us at half time about where we could hurt them.There is a really good feeling around the club."

"It has happened again. A few games now we have taken the lead and not managed it well enough," Cooper said, “We are not handling conceding the first goal. It has cost us the last two games. You cannot do that at any level, particularly this one. It is something we need to improve on."

Jacob Ramsey netted his first goal of the season to give Aston Villa a 1-0 victory over Southampton in the Premier League on Friday and snap a run of four games without a win. Aston Villa were desperate for a win after they just collected four points from their first six games, Villa dominated possession in the first half progressed as Philippe Coutinho wasted two good opportunities before Ramsey broke the deadlock. The 21-year-old midfielder struck in the 41st minute after he pounced on the rebound and fired the ball off the underside of the crossbar when Ollie Watkins' headed the ball from a corner which was acrobatically kept out by Southampton keeper Gavin Bazunu. This result means that Villa have now moved to 13th in the Premier League standings with 7 points. 

"We've been criticised all season for not grafting, not fighting and giving away cheap points but tonight we fought for every ball, it wasn't pretty and we know we can play better, but it's a huge three points," Villa captain John McGinn said.

"I thought we got a bit better in the second half but not enough to get anything from the game. None of us were good enough today. We have to review the game and work on the training pitch to better it for the next game," midfielder James Ward-Prowse said.

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