Nottingham Forest midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White is to be investigated by the FA for comments he made following the Reds’ 2-2 draw with Brentford, according to reports.
Steve Cooper’s men rescued a point from the incident-filled encounter at the City Ground on Saturday afternoon thanks to an own goal by Brentford defender Mathias Jorgensen in the final minute of stoppage time. A Brentford clearance bounced off the defender and over the line, with goal line technology awarding the goal.
It was the slice of luck Forest may have thought they deserved in a game where frustrations with decisions of the referee were evident. After Gibbs-White had put the Reds 1-0 up, Brentford were awarded a penalty on the stroke of half-time when goalkeeper Dean Henderson was adjudged to have fouled Yoane Wissa.
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The decision was made after a review by the Video Assistant Referee (VAR), with replays showing a slight bit of contact between the players. The ruling came in the same game where Forest had three penalty appeals of their own waved away.
After Bryan Mbeumo scored the penalty, Brentford looked to have taken all three points from the game when Wissa himself put them ahead in the 75th minute. But Forest added more late drama with the last-gasp deserved equaliser.
Following the game, Gibbs-White did not hold back in his thoughts on some of the decisions made by the referee and VAR. "I think we deserved three points," he told the BBC .
"We got cheated out of 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 battered them, really.
"We got cheated out of it. I looked at the penalty back and don't have a clue what the referee has seen. We came in at half-time angry, but we had to use that emotion to get back into the game.”
According to the Telegraph , those comments are now set to be investigated by the FA. The governing body are already looking into a pre-match confrontation between a member of Forest’s ground staff and the Brentford squad.
But the Forest midfielder now faces an investigation of his own. Should that escalate further, then the 22-year-old could face a possible FA charge for his comments.
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