Nottingham Forest goalscorer Morgan Gibbs-White has admitted that he doesn't understand how referee Andre Marriner awarded Brentford a penalty in first-half added-time after watching the replays back.
Dean Henderson was adjudged to have felled Yoane Wissa inside the penalty area with a trailing arm, and Marriner pointed to the spot after being advised to watch the incident back on the pitchside monitor. Bryan Mbuemo stepped up to convert the penalty in the absence of suspended striker Ivan Toney to cancel out a deflected Gibbs-White opener, which was the summer signing's first for the Reds.
After winning that penalty, Wissa stayed on his feet when running in behind 15 minutes from time and lobbed the onrushing Forest goalkeeper this time to gave the visitors what looked like all three points before another deflected drive by Gibbs-White came off Brentford central defender Zanka on its way in. The goalscorer couldn't help but comment on the first-half incident that swayed the game, though.
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"I think we deserved three points," Gibbs-White 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.
"We got that equaliser right at the end, which I felt was fully deserved, but we should have got three points. I'm just happy we didn't come away with no points."
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