Coventry City earns first top-flight win in 25 years, beats Nottingham Forest 1-0

Twenty-five years is a long time to wait for anything. For Coventry City supporters, that wait ended on September 19, 2026, when their side beat Nottingham Forest 1-0 at the City Ground to claim their first Premier League win since April 2001. The goal came from Jay Dasilva in the 55th minute, a player who had gone 127 appearances without finding the net for Coventry. He picked the right moment. How it happened The goal had an unlikely architect: goalkeeper Carl Rushworth, whose precise long ball split the Forest defense and set Dasilva free. One composed finish later, Coventry had the lead they would not relinquish. Forest thought they had leveled in the closing stages when Igor Jesus bundled the ball home, but VAR intervened. A foul on Coventry’s Caleb Yirenkyi was spotted in the build-up, and the goal was ruled out. Coventry held on for the full three points. The result lifted Coventry off the bottom of the Premier League table, where they had been sitting after losing all four of their opening matches without scoring a single goal. Forest, meanwhile, dropped to 12th. Manager Frank Lampard did not downplay the significance of the occasion. He described it as a landmark day for t...