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Nottingham Forest had 35 efforts on goal, the most by a team managed by Sean Dyche in the Premier League

At a glance

  • Hosts fail to convert any of their 35 chances

  • Nottingham Forest remain 17th in table

  • Wolves stay rooted to the bottom

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Steven Sutcliffe
BBC Sport Journalist

Nottingham Forest played out a frustrating Premier League stalemate with a dismal Wolves side that did little to ease their relegation concerns.

Sean Dyche's Forest remain 17th in the table but are now just three points better off than 18th-placed West Ham, while Wolves remain rooted to the bottom on nine points.

The hosts have now won just two of their past 10 matches and being held to a goalless draw by a side scrapping away just to not be known as the worst ever team in Premier League history will likely increase scrutiny on Dyche's position.

A chorus of boos rang out inside the City Ground at full-time but in truth it was a bewildering outcome to a match Forest completely dominated but equally could have lost at the death.

Dyche will justifiably feel that his team did more than enough to win several fixtures but Forest were again made to pay for their profligacy.

By the time Elliot Anderson warmed Jose Sa's hands with a low effort towards the end of the first half the hosts had already had 15 efforts on goal, which soon increased to 16.

On his first start since joining the East Midlands club on loan from Napoli, Lorenzo Lucca was guilty of failing to convert a gilt-edged chance from eight yards when the hosts had five attackers converging on goal against a lone Wolves defender.

A one-sided second half followed the same pattern, Forest never quite delivering the precise telling ball and also having Igor Jesus and Morato denied at close range by a double save from Sa.

With Forest chasing a late winner, exasperation almost turned to despair in stoppage time for the hosts but Mateus Mane fired straight at home goalkeeper Stefan Ortega, with the visitors instead having to be content to end a run of 14 league matches without a clean sheet.

More to follow.

Player of the match

José Sá
7.51
8 E. Anderson
4.85
3 N. Williams
4.81
27 S. Ortega
4.72
34 O. Aina
4.45
31 N. Milenković
4.45
10 M. Gibbs-White
4.31
6 I. Sangaré
4.10
4 Morato
3.90
7 C. Hudson-Odoi
3.87
19 Igor Jesus
3.70
21 O. Hutchinson
3.65
20 L. Lucca
3.44
14 D. Ndoye
3.24
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