MANCHESTER, England : Nottingham Forest maintained their Champions League push with a comfortable 4-2 win at Ipswich Town in the Premier League on Saturday, while Manchester City could only muster a 2-2 draw with Brighton & Hove Albion in a blow to their hopes.
Everton stretched their unbeaten league run to nine games with a 1-1 draw against West Ham United in the 'David Moyes Derby', while Wolverhampton Wanderers beat bottom side Southampton 2-1 to take a giant step towards Premier League survival.
Anthony Elanga struck twice for Forest, who consolidated third place in the table on 54 points, five ahead of fourth-placed Chelsea, who have a game in hand and visit second-placed Arsenal on Sunday, and six points ahead of holders City, whose draw left them fifth.
Forest, who were involved in relegation battles in the last two seasons, struck three times in a frantic seven-minute spell in the first half, kicked off by defender Nikola Milenkovic who scored with a fierce, rising volley from close range.
Elanga netted a curling effort two minutes later, and then immediately doubled his tally when he latched onto a long ball from Milenkovic and squeezed his shot under goalkeeper Alex Palmer.
"Yeah, we got this moment right," Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo said. "We got Ipswich unbalanced and we took advantage of it."
Jens Cajuste pulled one back for Ipswich in the 82nd minute to briefly give home fans hope, but Forest's Jota Silva quickly crushed it with a goal five minutes later, before George Hirst claimed a consolation for Ipswich in added time.
"Ipswich were always going to react, important that we got the fourth goal, that really put the game to bed in that moment," Espirito Santo said.
Neither holders Manchester City nor
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