After the penalty shootout, Sheffield United’s Billy Sharp was attacked by a Nottingham Forest fan

 

 

Nottingham Forest has qualified for the Championship play-off final in 2022/23, where they will face Huddersfield Town.

 

Nevertheless, Steve Cooper’s team was forced to work as hard as possible in order to gain promotion to the Premier League.

At the City Ground on Tuesday evening, Sheffield United pushed them all the way, with goals from Morgan Gibbs-White and John Fleck after Brennan Johnson’s opening sent the semi-final tie to extra-time.

 

After another half-hour of play failed to separate the sides, penalties were used, with Forest finally winning owing to three saves by the amazing Brice Samba.

Although the match was tarnished by the actions of one ‘fan,’ it was a true play-off classic.

After Forest qualified for the final, home fans staged a pitch invasion, with one of them attacking Sheffield United’s Billy Sharp, who wasn’t even in the playing squad, near the touchline.

 

The individual in issue charged into the striker as he was calmly going about his business and knocked him to the ground.

It was an unprovoked and brutal assault that was also the essence of cowardly.