Nottingham Forest coach requires stitches after overenthusiastic goal celebration

Nottingham Forest kicked off the 2025/26 season in fashion with an emphatic 3-1 win over Brentford on the Metropolis Floor. For Forest’s goalkeeping coach Rui Barbosa, nonetheless, it was a day to overlook – although maybe he already has.

After Chris Wooden opened the scoring simply 5 minutes into the match, Barbosa celebrated wildly, leaping from his seat – solely to smash his head straight on the dugout, leaving him bleeding closely.

The Portuguese coach was shortly attended to by medical personnel, with Forest head coach Nuno Espirito Santo revealing after the sport that Barbosa wanted stitches to repair a major reduce on his head.

“He has six stitches!” Santo mentioned. “It was a nasty one. A foul one. He was dizzy.”

As for the remainder of the match – which noticed Forest 3-0 up by half-time due to a brace from Wooden and a surprising diving header from summer time signing Dan Ndoye – Santo was unreservedly thrilled.

“I’m delighted,” he mentioned after the match. “The best way we began the sport was wonderful. We performed nicely, we dominated, we managed the objective within the first 5 minutes settled the group and the vitality of the stadium.”

One factor’s for positive: Barbosa positively felt that vitality – and the sharp finish of the dugout – greater than most.

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