- Nottingham Forest continued their impressive form with a comfortable victory over Everton
- Chris Wood opened the scoring before Morgan Gibbs-White sealed the victory.
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Away specialists Nottingham Forest moved up to second place in the Premier League with a goal in each half to inflict Everton's first home defeat since August.
Despite a warm-up injury to key defender Murillo, Forest's fifth successive win did not look in doubt after Chris Wood put them ahead after 15 minutes.
Standout captain Morgan Gibbs-White capped a man-of-the-match performance by capitalizing on a mistake by Everton's Abdoulaye Doucoure to score a second goal after an hour.
Forest have already taken 20 of their 37 points away from home (no one has more as Liverpool play later on Sunday night) and downplaying the talk about Europe is going to prove more difficult for manager Nuno Espirito Santo.
After three consecutive draws against Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City, this was a slap in the face for Everton manager Sean Dyche, who gave Chelsea loanee Armando Broja his first start and replaced a distraught Jack Harrison in the rest.
Nuno had planned to start with a back three, but Murillo's late withdrawal meant a reshuffle with winger Ramon Sosa coming on and Gibbs-White returning to a more central position with Callum Hudson-Odoi absent from the visiting 18-man squad.
Nottingham Forest claimed their fifth consecutive Premier League victory with a comfortable victory over Everton.
Chris Wood and Morgan Gibbs-White were on target as Nuno Espirito Santo's side continued their impressive form.
The late stoppage encouraged Everton to make a quick start. Iliman Ndiaye slalomed to the edge of the Forest area but went down with the last stray shot.
Wood had already sent a half-volley wide and a header just wide when he broke the deadlock after 15 minutes.
After Ndiaye was dispossessed by Morato, Forest broke with Gibbs-White launching a long ball towards Wood.
The New Zealander exchanged a double header with Anthony Elanga and brilliantly beat Jordan Pickford to score his 11th league goal of the campaign.
It was also the 15th time Forest had scored first this season, the highest in the division, and Wood's result came as no surprise to Dyche, who once managed the centre-forward at Burnley.
Jarrad Branthwaite and Broja failed to find the target with half-chances and Jack Harrison was hooked on the break by Jesper Lindstrom.
Although Everton's intensity increased, it did not faze the resolute Forest defence, for whom Matz Sels has more clean sheets than any other goalkeeper.
A horror show from Doucoure gifted the visitors their second goal after an hour.
Everton created opportunities, but fell short when it came to finishing them.
Forest captain Gibbs-White took advantage of a mistake by Abdoulaye Doucoure to seal the victory.
A loose pass from the lanky midfielder inside his own half gave the ball to Elanga, who released Wood in the box.
The forward, in turn, found Gibbs-White, who easily cut inside Doucoure, who had run back to try and make amends, and fired past Pickford from eight yards.
Things threatened to get ugly for Everton when Pickford saved and Ola Aina hit the rebound into the side netting.
Dyche sent on Dominic Calvert-Lewin to try and salvage something but Everton still failed to register an effort on target until Sels comfortably saved the striker's final header. They remain only three points above the last three.