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Brighton v Nottingham Forest LIVE: Forest win dramatic penalty shootout to seal FA Cup semi-final spot

Brighton 0-0 Nottingham Forest (Forest win 4-3 on pens): After an abject game, Ryan Yates scored the winner in the shootout to send Forest through to a Wembley semi-final

Luke Baker
Saturday 29 March 2025 20:32 GMT
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Nottingham Forest secured a place in the FA Cup semi-finals by beating Brighton & Hove Albion 4-3 in a penalty shootout when Ryan Yates smashed home the winner after the game finished goalless following extra time.

Forest keeper Matz Sels saved Jack Hinshelwood's low shot towards the bottom corner before keeping out Diego Gomez's attempt into the middle of the goal either side of the visitors' missed effort from Neco Williams that flew over the bar.

Before that, it had been a low-key 120 minutes with few clear-cut chances and the prospect of penalties to decide it seemed inevitable from fairly early on.

Crystal Palace also progressed with a 3-0 win at Fulham in their quarter-final earlier on Saturday, while second-tier Preston North End host seven-times winners Aston Villa before Manchester City, who have also had seven triumphs, visit Bournemouth in the remaining last-eight ties on Sunday.

Relive all the FA Cup action and updates with our live blog below:

Penalty shootout: Brighton 2-2 Nottingham Forest

Callum Hudson-Odoi for Forest to level it up again. He SCORES! Top corner, great pen. Verbruggen went the right way but go nowhere near it.

Brighton: ✔️✔️

Nottingham Forest: ✔️✔️

Luke Baker29 March 2025 20:06

Penalty shootout: Brighton 2-1 Nottingham Forest

Gruda now for Brighton with the second pen. Deep breath...

Sels goes super early and Gruda SCORES, slotting it into the opposite corner. Cool as you like

Brighton: ✔️✔️

Nottingham Forest: ✔️

Luke Baker29 March 2025 20:05

Penalty shootout: Brighton 1-1 Nottingham Forest

Elliot Anderson for Forest’s first pen in the absence of Chris Wood.

Against Verbruggen and he SCORES. Sends the keeper the wrong way

Brighton: ✔️

Nottingham Forest: ✔️

Luke Baker29 March 2025 20:04

Penalty shootout: Brighton 1-0 Nottingham Forest

Pedro steps up. He has a 100 per cent record from the penalty spot this season...

And he SCORES. Hard to Sels’ right, finds the net

Brighton: ✔️

Nottingham Forest:

Luke Baker29 March 2025 20:03

Penalty shootout: Brighton 0-0 Nottingham Forest

A place in the FA Cup semi-finals up for grabs. It will be Brighton to take first and in front of their own fans.

Joao Pedro will be the player to step up first. Matz Sels between the sticks for Forest

Brighton:

Nottingham Forest:

Luke Baker29 March 2025 20:02

FULL-TIME! Brighton 0-0 Nottingham Forest

It ends goalless, so off to penalties we go. Drama after a pretty mediocre 120 minutes.

Luke Baker29 March 2025 19:57

NO GOAL! Brighton 0-0 Nottingham Forest, 119 mins

OH MY WORD, WE HAVE A GOAL! Oh no - ruled out for offside.

A ball dinked to the back post where Estupinan nods it across and Pedro turns it in. But Estupinan was offside when the ball was played.

Interesting sub as Gibbs-White, who has taken penalties for Forest before, is taken off and Morato comes on. Hmmm

Luke Baker29 March 2025 19:55

Brighton 0-0 Nottingham Forest, 117 mins

Another Brighton free-kick in a dangerous position to the right of the box. This second half of extra-time has easily been the most entertaining period of this quarter-final.

Estupinan made a mess of the last free-kick and this one deflects off the wall for a corner. That comes to nothing.

Luke Baker29 March 2025 19:53

Brighton 0-0 Nottingham Forest, 114 mins

Van Hecke lets a long ball drop over his shoulder, Silva is able to lash a foot at it and it bounces off the Dutchman for a corner. Not great defending but he got away with it.

Gruda then brings down Silva in the middle of the park to stop a counter-attack. Happily takes the yellow card.

Luke Baker29 March 2025 19:50

Brighton 0-0 Nottingham Forest, 112 mins

Estupinan whips it in with his left foot but it’s poor. Harmlessly out for a goal kick

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Luke Baker29 March 2025 19:47

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