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Matt Davies

'Carnage' - Lyle Taylor feels Nottingham Forest are on track after taming The Beast

Nottingham Forest's attacking players have come in for criticism this season, with manager Chris Hughton calling for them to be a more consistent threat.

Two wins in a week have been a step in the right in the direction and while the victory over Coventry City was fortunate, the Reds could have won by three or four goals against Wycombe Wanderers, rather than the 2-0 success they managed on Saturday.

Lyle Taylor scored three of Forest's four goals this week, including both against Wycombe and he feels they are starting to click as an attacking force heading in to the international break.

"Things are coming together. We created enough chances against Rotherham to win four games," he said.

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"The chances are there and it's about taking them. I'd like to say we're getting more clinical. I could probably have had another goal in the first half.

"We've had a good week. When we come back from the international break we've got a lot of difficult games - Bournemouth, Brentford, Norwich. It's difficult but every team has to play each team twice and there are no easy games.

"There are some that are morning difficult than others. I'm not going to say we'll win the next 10 games.

"We're fighting tooth and nail for every point."

The 30-year-old took his tally for the season to four as he nodded in Cyrus Christie's pinpoint cross before netting a fine solo effort to seal the points after the break.

"It was a perfect cross. He floated it to be the back post. It's not an overly difficult header," he said.

"Get it inside the back post and get it down. I managed to do it and it's a great feeling.

"To get the second, it just opened up for me. It was a strange one. I tried to play Ant (Knockaert) in.

"It came back to me and it was like the parting of the Red Sea. It was great. I'm pleased."

Taylor's second goal after 74 minutes settled the game. It came at a time when Wycombe were on top with the man known as the The Beast, Taylor's former Wimbledon teammate Adebayo Akinfenwa, using his bulk to make a considerable nuisance of himself in the Forest box.

"They were on top in the second half until we scored. It's not so much a lack of quality from us, it's the carnage he causes when he comes on to the pitch," Taylor said.

"He does cause carnage. He attracts two and three players to him and that leaves others free.

"We dealt with that really well. I thought our back four and the midfielders who stepped on to his toes worked on that and did it well. The gaffer's plan worked.

"We could have scored more but for one of the best saves you'll see in a long time. It's been a good week for us. Now it's time to rest."

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