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BIG BEN STRIKES THE RIGHT NOTE

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The LeaguePaper Team
15 April 2018

By Joel Lamy

LEAVING IT LATE: Joe Lolley is mobbed after scoring the last-gasp winner for Forest
PICTURES: Richard Parkes

TEENAGE striker Ben Brereton showed his character by ending Nottingham Forest’s ten hour 40 minute goal drought, according to Reds boss Aitor Karanka.
The 18-year-old converted an 87thminute penalty he had won before setting up Joe Lolley’s 95th-minute winner as Forest stunned Ipswich, who were not managed by Mick McCarthy for the first time in more than five years.
The mid-table visitors, led by caretaker boss Bryan Klug, had taken the lead through Gra...

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