Nottingham Forest 0-1 Brentford

Forest have now not scored in six matches

Henrik Dalsgaard's late winner kept Brentford in the hunt for a play-off place as Nottingham Forest's goal drought stretched to six games.

The Danish right-back dived to head in Josh McEachran's 81st-minute corner as the Bees moved to within four points of the Championship play-off places.

Forest had the better of the first half with Ben Brereton going closest with a strike that crashed back off the bar.

But the visitors improved and claimed a third 1-0 win in a row.

The victory sees them close to within four points of Millwall, who are sixth after beating Bolton with just four games to play.

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Forest were much improved despite their miserable goal record, with Joe Lolley and Lee Tomlin both having strikes saved by Bees goalkeeper Daniel Bentley in a lively start by the hosts.

Brentford looked neat and tidy and some typically slick attacking saw top scorer Neal Maupay shoot straight at Costel Pantilimon.

A strong penalty claim was also ignored when Romaine Sawyers went down in the box after a clumsy challenge.

However, Forest remained the more likely scorers and Brereton went agonisingly close with a brilliant right-foot curler that hit the bar from the edge of box and Adlene Guedioura shot a fraction wide of the far post from a tight angle.

A less open second period saw fewer chances, but the west Londoners were able to take the best one on offer and go 10th in the table on the back of a six-game unbeaten run.

Nottingham Forest boss Aitor Karanka told BBC Radio Nottingham:

"We were unlucky because we played a very good team at home. We hit the crossbar and the post and should have had a penalty.

"We've done almost everything, but because of one mistake, we have lost the game.

"It is the third game in the row and we have to fix mistakes.

"I hope we can play in the same way on Saturday and in that game we won't make mistakes and we can win a game at home."

Brentford boss Dean Smith:

"That's three 1-0 wins on the spin - and it shows a lot of character. Our game management was excellent.

"We're only four points from the top six, but there's some teams up there on unbelievable runs - including Fulham who we play on Saturday. All we can do is approach each game and try to win it.

"Fulham will be a mouth-watering game now, but we feel we're a good team now and we're five unbeaten."