Joy turned into an instant to an eye for the goalkeeper coach Rui Barbosa van Nottingham Forest, whose celebration of the opener of Chris Wood against Brentford ended with six stitches and a dizzy enchantment for him in his first Premier League match of the new season.
Wood’s fifth minute goal, poking home after a corner, led to jubilant scenes in the Forest Dugout on the city. However, Barbosa’s enthusiasm became painful when he hit the Dugout during the parties.
The club’s medical staff quickly treated a nasty cut on his head.
«He has six stitches! It was a filthy one. A bad one. He was dizzy,» forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo told reporters on Sunday.
The 3-1 victory marked Forest’s first opening day Premier League victory since the 1996-97 season, when the Coventry City defeated.
