Chris Wood smashes his former team Newcastle with a hat-trick in 16 minutes
Chris Wood surely had it in his mind to score a lot of goals at St. James Park. But what the Nottingham Forest striker did not expect was that he would do so when he is no longer a Newcastle United player. In a matter of 16 minutes, the time it took from scoring the first in stoppage time to the third in the 60th minute, the New Zealander was up to three goals for Forest against his former club.
Just before half-time, Chris Wood equalised after Aleksander Isak had opened the Boxing Day scoring from the penalty spot. Wood's display had only just begun. In the second half, the striker received a ball into space, dribbled past a defender, left him on the ground, and fired the ball past Dubravka.
It might have looked like a replay, but it wasn't seven minutes later. Once again the Forest striker received space and, this time with no opposition, rounded Dubravka and slotted home to make it 1-3. Chris Wood will not forget Boxing Day. In just 16 minutes, he scored the same number of goals as he had scored at home in a Newcastle shirt.
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