Overview
- Morgan Gibbs-White turned a 1-0 deficit into a 4-1 win with a 15-minute hat-trick on Sunday at the City Ground, the Premier League’s fastest treble this season.
- The victory left Nottingham Forest five points above the relegation places, easing pressure in their fight to stay in the top flight.
- The hat-trick took Gibbs-White to 12 league goals and 15 in all competitions, though Danny Welbeck moved ahead as the top English scorer after netting on Tuesday.
- Gibbs-White was left out of Thomas Tuchel’s March England squad, and fresh commentary from Ally McCoist and Jamie Carragher says his form gives him a late but difficult route into the World Cup group.
- Neco Williams has been a near ever-present with four club player-of-the-month awards, underpinning a season that now includes a Europa League semi-final for Forest for the first time in 42 years.