Norwich continue to strengthen their Sky Bet Champion lead after a packed midweek round as the battle to sit at the summit comes Christmas continues to rage on.
Emiliano Buendia fired in a 77th minute winner for the Canaries after Jacob Sorensen’s opener was cancelled out by Anthony Knockaert’s stunning cross for Forest, which found the goal despite being intended as a simple cross into the box from just outside the box.
Bournemouth sit second and three points behind Norwich after finding themselves held to a goalless draw at Swansea, which saw the Swans stay fourth and one point behind the Cherries.
Watford meanwhile sandwich Bournemouth and Swansea in third after defeating Rotherham through early goals from Christian Kabasele and Troy Deeney.
Reading consequently fell to fifth after Jon Toral’s eight minute brace late into the first-half saw Birmingham take victory at the Madejski Stadium, despite Yakou Meite’s 61st minute consolation before Lucas Joao’s penalty was saved as Harlee Dean saw red for a foul on Meite.
Famara Diedhiou’s close range strike on the turn from Callum O’Dowda’s pullback header proved enough for Bristol City to defeat Blackburn in a tense encounter and go sixth.
Down in the relegation zone, Sheffield Wednesday remain rock-bottom after Josh Koroma and Isaac Mbenza struck to secure Huddersfield victory in a huge Yorkshire derby.
Wycombe slipped to second bottom after Cauley Woodrow’s 61st minute penalty gave Barnsley victory at Oakwell just 12 minutes after Joe Jacobsen pulled the Chairboys level from his spot-kick, cancelling out Callum Styles’ opening strike for the Tykes.
Derby managed to crawl to within a point of safety after finding themselves held to a goalless draw at Brentford.
Elsewhere, Preston collected only their second home win of the league campaign after thrashing Middlesbrough at Deepdale, courtesy of second-half goals from Brad Potts, Scott Sinclair and Emil Riis Jakobsen.
Comeback second-half goals from Robert Glatzel and Sean Morrison saw Cardiff come from behind to beat Stoke, who had taken a 25th minute lead after Morrison had accidentally flicked Alex Smithies’ block from Tyrese Campbell’s shot into his own goal.
Jon Dadi Bodvarsson rescued Millwall a point against QPR at The Den after Ilias Chair had put the West Londoners ahead, on a night in which Millwall fans cheered and clapped as both teams united in arms against racism following Saturday’s despicable booing of players taking a knee.
Finally, Coventry held Luton to a goalless draw at St Andrews Stadium.
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