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Nottingham Forest moved off the bottom of the Premier League with a hard-fought draw against Aston Villa.

The result ends a sequence of five consecutive defeats for Steve Cooper's side, who move up to 19th in the table, a point above Leicester and four behind Villa who remain 16th.

Roared on by a vociferous City Ground crowd, Emmanuel Dennis gave the hosts the perfect start, capitalising on some poor marking to head in Morgan Gibbs-White's free-kick after drifting across the front of a static Villa defence.

However, Ashley Young levelled seven minutes later with a superb effort from 25 yards that flew into the bottom left corner.

It was Young's first goal for Villa since 2011 - when he was in his first spell at the club - and it was the only notable moment of attacking inspiration from two sides that otherwise struggled creatively in the final third.

Steven Gerrard's team had an Ollie Watkins effort correctly ruled out for offside and appeals for a penalty waved away when Forest captain Ryan Yates appeared to catch Ezri Konsa, too often their final ball or shot lacked the precision to trouble home goalkeeper Dean Henderson.

Aston Villa

Aston Villa boss Steven Gerrard speaking to Sky Sports: "I don't think we created enough to say we deserved to win. I wanted us to create more clear-cut chances. I don't think there was too much wrong with the performance up to a certain point.

"It wasn't a foul [for the free-kick leading up to the goal]. Tyrone Mings got a clear contact on the ball but saying that we still have to defend the set piece better. It was a fantastic strike and it was one of a few moments of quality in the final third. Ashley [Young] is leading by example for us at the moment and we are really pleased with him.

"We are grinding at the moment. We are close to turning draws into wins but to do that we need big players to step forward for us and give us a little more quality in the last bit of our play. In the last couple of games we are going away frustrated.

"We have tried to change our system a bit to be a bit more bold. We finished with a really bold team out there to try and find that bit of magic and quality."

This is what Nottingham Forest have coming their way over the next few weeks, beginning with an away match on Saturday against Wolves, who may well have a new manager by then.

After that, tough-looking games against Brighton, Liverpool and Arsenal.

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Aston Villa

Aston Villa's Ashley Young speaking to Sky Sports: "There's a lot of frustration in our dressing room. When you have that much possession and get into the final third things are just not coming off. That's just what is happening of late. We just need something to go our way and I think the goals will come.

"You set up not to concede but we showed our character to get back in the game. It's always nice to get on the scoresheet but when you draw it feels like a loss. I know I have the ability and when I saw it come out I knew I was going to shoot.

"I think we played well. It's just going and getting that next goal. We created more in the second half but it wasn't meant to be. We need everyone in the team to start adding more goals to what we have so far."

This result and performance will do nothing to silence Steven Gerrard's critics, and these are the next four matches Villa have in October, starting with a tough one on Sunday at home to Chelsea.

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Nottingham Forest

More from Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper speaking to Sky Sports: "It's difficult to compare to last season because it's a different team. We've had to stop comparing.

"What happened last season was unbelievable but we're in this league and it is a different sport to the Championship. If we'd kept going as we started we'd have kept getting the same results.

"If we don't change a little bit it would be naive. We are trying to find the right balance and tonight is a forward step. You lose five games on the bounce and that is when you might see people hiding but I am seeing the opposite of that."

Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper speaking to Sky Sports: "It's a step in the right direction. It's not the ambition to be drawing at home and not having much of the ball but in the circumstances I think we have to accept tonight was a forward step and we should only look on the positives and that will be our focus to keep building.

"The reality is we have been conceding way too many goals and chances and I have not really like us out of possession with our positioning and duels and picking up second balls and going with runners. For all the tactical stuff I loved the fight in the team and I think we did that better tonight.

"Is it my favourite way of playing? No. But it was right for tonight and in the end we managed to get up the pitch and take the lead.

"We let them back in the game but for all the possession they had they haven't created loads of chances. I thought we could have done better on the counter attack."

Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher was not too impressed with Aston Villa's Philippe Coutinho.

Speaking on Sky Sports, Carragher says: "He is a shadow of his former self. He was a million miles off it and taken off again. He is the only attacking player Steven Gerrard has bought."

Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest's Ryan Yates, speaking to Sky Sports: "A good point, we wanted to win the game but we had to stop the rot, we've been losing a lot of games recently.

"We wanted to do it for the fans and ourselves. We worked hard to get into the Premier League and we don't want to put in many performances like that (the 4-0 loss to Leicester).

"It's a point but we wanted more, especially at home. We have to look at the positives from tonight and move forward."

Nottingham Forest have failed to win in their last seven games in the Premier League, their last longer winless streak was from 8 September 1998 to 16 January 1999, a run of 19 games.

Aston Villa are undefeated in their last four games, their best league run since going five without losing in December 2020.

This is what it does to the Premier League table, with Forest moving up from 20th to 19th.

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It's a point apiece and a fair result. Neither side did that much in a poor second half and neither deserved the three points.

Forest off the bottom, there will be more tough questions for Villa boss Steven Gerrard after this one. Pretty uninspiring stuff, one-one.

It's been a pretty poor game, apart from the two goals. Late drama to come though? Maybe.

Three minutes of injury time.

Forest will move off the bottom and above Leicester, who trounced them 4-0 last week, if it stays like this, while Villa will remain 16th with a point.

A chance for Villa from the resulting free-kick. Douglas Luiz sends the free-kick deep to the back post and finds Cameron Archer, who has only just come on. Not too sure what Archer is trying to do though.

He could've headed at goal but opts to head it for a team-mate but just gets it all wrong and it turns into an inadvertent defensive header away.

Ollie Watkins is brought down by Ryan Yates, with the arm coming across Watkins and catching the England man in the face.

Yellow all day long, including today.

We asked who was going to win and the majority of you say Forest will nick this one.

Steve Cooper's side have 10 minutes to make 2,835 of you right.

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Jay: Can we please end the Gerrard experiment? We're in for a relegation battle otherwise.

A bit more pushing and shoving and things are competitive. Jacob Ramsey rugby tackles Neco Williams and gets booked.

Villa's Douglas Luiz is playing a very risky game as he nudges his head in the direction of Brennan Johnson, but it's not a full-blown headbutt.

All a bit silly, all a bit needless.