‘Still not over’ - National media reacts to Nottingham Forest’s dramatic loss vs Bournemouth

Nottingham Forest will have to settle for a place in the play-offs after falling to defeat against AFC Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium on Tuesday night.

Kieffer Moore’s 83rd minute winner proved to be the difference between the two sides and secured the Cherries’ place back in the Premier League. Forest will now have to wait to see who they face in the play-offs at the end of the season.

Steve Cooper 's side went into the game against Bournemouth knowing that a win would have put them one step closer to the Premier League. Ahead of the match, Bournemouth were three points ahead of Forest with a worse goal difference. The gap is now however insurmountable with one game of the normal season left to play.

With so much riding on the match at the Vitality Stadium, there was a lot of interest, with the national media gathering to take in the spectacle. Here’s what they made of the game and Forest’s chances in the play-offs.

Steve Cooper’s players may well return their club to the top, for the first time since 1999, through the playoffs and it would be one of the season’s most thrilling stories. Had Sam Surridge not struck the bar after nine minutes, and had they been awarded a penalty before half-time when the striker was incorrectly ruled offside as Mark Travers clipped him, history might have been reshaped.

Ultimately both sides got what, on the night and across the full campaign, they deserved. Bournemouth emerged from the interval an entirely different proposition and dominated the second half, at least until an eight-minute period of stoppage time that saw the Forest keeper Brice Samba advance for a corner and flick narrowly over. Their winner was wonderfully worked and conjured its own happy subplot.

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