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Super-sub Anthony Elanga secured a second win on the bounce for Forest with a last-gasp winner against Aston Villa.
A towering header from Nikola Milenković and last-minute winner from Anthony Elanga were enough to cancel out Durán's opener.
In a first half of limited openings, Forest were the stronger side, coming closer on two occasions.
20 minutes in, Ryan Yates found himself latching onto a ball pulled back on the edge of the box, but his strike cleared the crossbar.
Elliot Anderson then picked up the ball on the edge of the box, before jinking through three Villa men to find an angle, but his strike was deflected behind.
The subsequent corner was delivered by Anderson onto the head of Murillo, who glanced the ball agonisingly wide.
HALF TIME: Forest 0-0 Villa
It took a similar amount of time as the first half for the second to get going, with the first real action coming in the 55th minute.
Callum Hudson-Odoi cut inside from the left and took aim, his shot being deflected only as far to Neco Williams, whose attempt was wide of the target.
Emi Martínez then pulled out one of the saves of the season, as he clawed Nico Domínguez’s header from a corner off the line from underneath him.
Durán then opened the scoring for the visitors, looping McGinn’s cross with a header over Matz Sels.
The Reds then thought they had tied the game, as Morgan Gibbs-White threaded through Elanga into the box, before squaring to Chris Wood who tapped home, but Elanga was adjudged to be offside.
Gibbs-White was then the recipient of a threaded pass from Neco Williams, and his stood up ball was attacked by Milenković whose header was too powerful for Martínez to keep out.
Forest then scored the winner as Anderson won the ball back brilliantly just outside of the Villa box and dribbled to the byline, before firing back across for Elanga to blast home in the 93rd minute.
HALF TIME: Forest 2-1 Villa