Sympathetic was the Brentford head coach to the 22-year-old’s plight last season. Carvalho started just three league games following his £27.5million move to west London before a dislocated shoulder saw him miss the final three months of the season.

As far as first impressions go, Keith Andrews' debut as a Premier League head coach was the equivalent of forgetting your name or spilling red wine on your carpet as his side suffer a 3-1 loss at Nottingham Forest.

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Without Mikkel Damsgaard, who was absent as his wife had given birth, Brentford lacked inspiration, and they were duly punished with two goals on the cusp of half-time as Ndoye headed home before Wood raced clear to consolidate Forest’s dominance.

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A Nottingham Forest coach needed stitches in his head after celebrating Chris Wood’s opener against Brentford. The striker took just five minutes to get off the mark for the season, sending

Nottingham Forest will face Brentford in this Premier League matchup on Sunday at The City Ground, and you can catch all the action with Peacock. Nottingham Forest and Brentford will take the pitch on Sunday, August 17th, at The City Ground.

Nottingham Forest piled more misery on depleted Brentford as new winger Dan Ndoye scored his first goal for the club in Sunday's 3-1 win in the Premier League.

Nottingham Forest takes on Brentford on Sunday, Aug. 17, at the City Ground, with kickoff set for 2 p.m. BST. That makes it a 9 a.m. ET or 6 a.m. PT start in the US and Canada, and an 11 p.m. AEST kickoff in Australia.

The result saw Forest end their seven-game winless run on matchday one of a league season (D2 L5), earning their first opening match win since 2017-18 in the Championship

Andrews said he would like Wissa to be part of the squad but added it is "very hard to know" what will happen in relation to his future.

Former Republic of Ireland international Andrews has had to rebuild as he tries to maintain Brentford's impressive record of never having been in the relegation zone across the last four seasons. That is a record they still maintain for now, but they are only out of the bottom three on goal difference.