Forest had led by way of birthday boy Danilo, who celebrated turning 22 with a objective in first-half stoppage-time.

But Ivan Toney equalised with a free-kick eight minutes from time, taking his Premier League tally for the season to twenty.

And with Forest all the way down to 10 males after Danilo went off injured, substitute Dasilva secured a 2-1 win to ship relegation-threatened Forest spinning to a seventh right away defeat.

Brentford dominated the primary half and Bryan Mbuemo’s early cross was met with a glancing header from Rico Henry which flew throughout objective and large.

Kevin Schade then headed straight at Forest goalkeeper Keylor Navas from Vitaly Janelt’s cross.

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Forest’s first likelihood of the opening half got here when Serge Aurier overlapped and performed the ball again to Brennan Johnson.

The striker lofted the ball excessive into the field the place Taiwo Awoniyi looped his header over David Raya and over the crossbar.

Navas was known as into motion once more to avoid wasting Ethan Pinnock’s close-range shot in a crowded space with Mikkel Damsgaard unable to attach with the rebound.

The Costa Rica keeper then held Ben Mee’s header from one other Mbeumo free-kick, earlier than Forest took a shock lead.

Morgan Gibbs-White’s shot from the sting of the field ricocheted off the heel of Mee into the trail of Danilo, who rifled the ball house from eight yards.

The January signing from Palmeiras, who scored his first objective for the membership of their midweek towards Brighton, celebrated with a Samba dance in entrance of the travelling followers.

After the break Dasilva noticed a shot blocked and Mee’s tried scissor-kick flew over.

Raya saved from Gibbs-White after which held an acrobatic overhead kick from Moussa Niakhate as Forest looked for a second.

But they had been undone after Cheikhou Kouyate fouled Frank Onyeka 25 yards out.

Toney, who had performed little of be aware all afternoon, stepped as much as curl the free-kick between Navas and his far submit.

In doing so the striker grew to become the primary Bees participant to hit 20 targets within the high flight for the reason that Thirties.

Forest, who had used all their substitutes, needed to see out the match a person down after Danilo limped off.

Brentford sensed their likelihood and Navas scrambled to maintain out Onyeka’s deflected shot earlier than Aaron Hickey drove narrowly large.

It was Dasilva who hit the knockout blow, chopping in from the appropriate wing and lashing house the winner in stoppage time.

Additional reporting from PA