Nottingham Forest player ratings from Wembley as Garner shines and Reds secure Premier League promotion against Huddersfield Town

Nottingham Forest are back in the Premier League! The Reds ended a 23-year absence from the top-flight as they beat Huddersfield Town 1-0 in the play-offs final at Wembley.

The atmosphere at Wembley was electric before kick-off. A spine-tingling rendition of Mull of Kintyre and a brilliant Forza Garibaldi display had the away end rocking.

And there was a mighty roar just before the interval when the Reds took the lead. It had been a nervy first half, though.

Forest saw plenty of possession in the opening 45 minutes, but Town did a good job of strangling their threat. The Terriers had a few dangerous moments of their own, too.

Ryan Yates had a decent chance to open the scoring with just 12 minutes gone. James Garner whipped a free-kick towards the far post, where his midfield teammate glanced a header narrowly wide.

Yates tried his luck again 10 minutes later. Nice link-up play between Steve Cook and Philip Zinckernagel teed him up on the edge of the area, but he blasted his effort off target. A probing run from Djed Spence soon after saw the defender try to find Brennan Johnson with the cross, but it floated inches over his head.

Huddersfield started to come more into the game on the half hour. And Forest looked a little edgy at the back.

Sorba Thomas got past Joe Worrall down the left and saw his cross-shot parried by Brice Samba. Minutes later, Garner made a brilliant recovery tackle to help out Worrall after he lost out to Danny Ward. The latter wasn’t too far away from the resulting corner.

It looked as though the teams were going to go in at the break all-square. But Garner popped up with a touch of class to break the deadlock.

Davis played his part in the build-up, then the Manchester United loanee delivered a