Igor Thiago was back among the goals while Nottingham Forest fired blanks again in a 2-0 defeat at Brentford .

Oliver Glasner ’s side remain in the bottom three despite another encouraging display between the penalty areas, thanks to a calamitous performance inside both boxes.

Forest had 12 shots at goal, with two target, compared to Brentford’s six efforts with one on target, and still managed to lose by two.

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Their wayward finishing let them down once again, and their scattergun approach to attacking has still reaped only six league goals this season.

After falling behind to a freak own goal from Nikola Milenkovic, their fate was sealed in the second half when Thiago hit his second goal of the season.

Victory ended Brentford’s four-match winless run in what was the 100th Premier League game at the Gtech Stadium, and probably among the worst.

A familiar story began to unfold when Liam Delap , with one league goal for Forest since signing from Chelsea, turned Sepp van den Berg in the penalty…