Nottingham Forest attacking midfielder Jesse Lingard's mistake in the lead-up to James Maddison's opener for Leicester City in Monday night's East Midlands derby has been described as 'the start of the end' fof the Reds' chances of getting a result against their East Midlands rivals.
The 29-year-old was culpable for a miscued clearance which fell to the feet of Maddison on the edge of the penalty area, who took a touch to control before getting off a shot that deflected off of Scott McKenna and past Dean Henderson in the Forest goal. Within two minutes Harvey Barnes had bent a second into the opposite corner, and Maddison was back to complete the 10-minute salvo with a whipped free-kick into that same side of the goal.
Those three strikes effectively ended the match as a contest well before Patson Daka flicked in a fourth. Lingard's old West Ham United assistant manager and former Notts County boss Kevin Nolan believes that the 'start of the end' can be traced back to the 32-cap England international.
