Nottingham Forest forward Morgan Gibbs-White said his side were “cheated out of three points” after they conceded a controversial penalty in their 2-2 draw against Brentford.
Super Eagles striker Emmanuel Dennis gave the assist for the first goal scored by Nottingham Forest, but Brentford were on the verge of taking their first away three points this season,but a Mathias Jorgensen 96th-minute own goal salvaged a dramatic late point for Forest.
Brentford’s Bryan Mbeumo converted a controversial penalty and Yoane Wissa chipped goalkeeper Dean Henderson.
However striker Gibbs White believe they were cheated in the game. Forest goalkeeper Dean Henderson stuck his glove out in a one-on-one with Yoane Wissa and was deemed to have clipped the Brentford forward in the box.
Referee Andre Marriner did not award the spot-kick initially and was advised by VAR to look at the incident on the monitor.
“I looked at the penalty back and don’t have a clue what the referee has seen,” said Gibbs-White. “We came in at half-time angry but we had to use that emotion to get back into the game.”
Players surrounded the referee after he awarded the penalty, which was converted by Bryan Mbeumo, as fans booed and berated the decision having seen replays on the big screen.
Forest had three penalty shouts of their own turned down and despite a late equaliser, which salvaged the home side a point at the City Ground, frustrations were still evident at full-time.
Gibbs-White, 22, who signed for Forest in the summer for a club record £25m, said: “I think we deserved three points – it was two errors that cost us. We gave the ball away for their penalty and lost the ball again for the second goal. We really battered them.
“We got that equaliser right at the end which I felt was fully deserved but we should have got three points. I’m just happy we didn’t come away with no points.”
Forest boss Steve Cooper’s anger was directed at the lack of consistency in Marriner and VAR’s decision-making.
“My feeling is that if that’s a penalty then there should be four in the game,” Cooper said. “If he has to look at the screen for ours then he should for the other three.”
Dennis thought he deserved a penalty when Mathias Jensen stepped in on his run before Josh Dasilva shoved Ryan Yates and the Forest captain appealed for a spot-kick, but nothing was given after a lengthy VAR check.
“We feel the one on Dennis in the first half and then Yates is worse than the one given against us and the one on Gibbs-White in the second half as well,” said Cooper. BBC
