Nottingham Forest bounced back from two straight defeats in confident fashion as goals from Lewis Grabban and Sammy Ameobi saw them defeat struggling Luton 2-1 at Kenilworth Road.
Having dropped out of the top two following defeats to Wigan and Hull, Sabri Lamouchi’s side showed little sign of letting that affect them as they dominated for long periods.
Grabban did not miss by much from 20 yards, his daisy-cutter skimming a post, while Luton’s best efforts came from range, James Collins shooting straight at Brice Samba and Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu hammering over the bar.
An injury to Town’s most creative outlet Izzy Brown saw him replaced by Kazenga LuaLua on the half hour, as Forest were in front after 39 minutes.
Home defenders Sonny Bradley and James Bree got in each other’s way going for a long ball and Grabban went through to easily beat Shea for his sixth of the season.
Ben Watson’s radar was well off from distance, before Forest did have a second to virtually kill their opponents off.
Lolley escaped on the right and found Ameobi at the far post, who was given time to turn, his deflected effort beating Shea to double Forest’s advantage.
First LuaLua’s shot was parried behind by Samba, before Forest were saved by the offside flag once more, Collins heading in from Pearson’s flick across goal only to be adjudged offside.
With three minutes left, Luton sub Callum McManaman gave his side a sniff, taking LuaLua’s pass to wriggle free superbly and then beat Samba with an excellent bending effort.
