EPL: Aina Plays 90 Minutes, Awoniyi Benched As Nottingham Forest Hold Brighton

Super Eagles defender Ola Aina plays all 90 minutes as Nottingham Forest held Brighton to a 2-2 draw in Sunday’s Premier League game.

Aina who was making his 5th appearance for Nottingham Forest, was yellow carded in the game.

However, his Nigerian international Taiwo Awoniyi was an unused substitute.

Forest opened the scoring on 13 minutes via the penalty spot.

Callum Hudson-Odoi was fouled in the box by Carlos Baleba in a debatable decision, but there was little doubt once Chris Wood stepped up, and Forest’s top scorer from last season with 15 goals made no mistake from the spot with his third goal from five games this term.

But then Brighton turned the half on its head in just four late first-half minutes.

In the 42nd minute, a cross by centre-back Jan Paul van Hecke found Hinshelwood in the box and the teenager produced a well-placed header into Matz Sels’ net

On the stroke of half-time, 33-year-old Danny Welbeck scored his 70th Premier League goal and his first from a direct free kick after Ola Aina fouled Kaoru Mitoma outside the box.

Vice-captain Morgan Gibbs-White’s piercing pass set off Silva and he laid the ball on to fellow substitute Ramon Sosa for an easy finish past Bart Verbruggen.

Both sides move onto nine points from five games, and continue to occupy seventh and eighth spots in the standings.