Nottingham Forest’s offer to qualify for the Champions League suffered a setback because they were held in a 1-1 draw in Crystal Palace on Monday. The Nuno Espirito Santo team needed a victory to keep the pace of their top five rivals. But the penalty of Ebelechi Eze in the second half placed the palace and, although Murillo equalized shortly after, the forest left the south of London outside the places in the Champions League. The attempted Forest, sixth, appears for the first time in the Europe Elite Club competition, since 1980-1981, is now out of their hands.
They sit at two points behind Chelsea, fifth and Newcastle, the fourth, with third place in Manchester City, three points in front of the forest.
Forest still has three games, with winning matches against Leicester and West Ham before what could be during a last day shooting against Chelsea.
The Nuno team was without the winger injured Callum Hudson-Odoi, who rather joined the fans outside in a corner of Selhurst Park.
The FA Cup Palace finalists dominated the first stadiums, with a catchy interaction between Eze and Adam Wharton in front of the manager of England Thomas Tuchel.
Their first chance arrived when Tyrick Mitchell whispered a cross that his compatriot Daniel Munoz met on the fly, forcing a backup of Matz Sels.
But Forest grew up in the game and Elliot Anderson hit the side net of a cross of Dominguez Deep Nicolas.
They almost pierced two minutes before half-time with a brand counterattack while Dominguez and Wood combined to assemble Anthony Elaga, but his finish was too close to Dean Henderson.
A frantic beginning of the second half saw the crossing of the head of Ismaila Sarr, the crossing of Munoz at the nearby post.
Forest A Conté and Wood was denied the opening goal by the Bloc of Maxence Lacroix while its shot was rolling closely.
Palace went forward on time after Mitchell was shot down by a combination of Dominguez and Selz in the region.
Referee Andy Madley did not initially give the penalty but changed his mind after a glance at the replay, Eze taking the kick.
Wharton left with an ankle injury while the boss of the palace, Oliver Glasner, took no risk with his influential midfielder before the FA Cup final against Manchester City.
Henderson made an astonishing stop to prevent an Elaga free kick.
But the forest leveled in the 64th minute when Murillo released a leg to launch Neco Williams beyond the bad foot Henderson.
Forest survived their luck late when Aze cut the crossbar with a 20 yards curler before Eddie Nketiah has the ball in the net, only to be reported out of hand.
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