Lansbury treble routs Barnsley

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Henri Lansbury scored a hat-trick as Nottingham Forest beat 10-man Barnsley 5-2 in a highly-entertaining Sky Bet Championship clash on Friday night.

Forest had to come from behind twice early on at Oakwell, as Lansbury’s free-kick cancelled out Sam Winnall’s early goal for Barnsley, before Apostolos Vellios levelled again after Marley Watkins had put the Tykes back in front.

Lansbury scored again to put Forest ahead on the stroke of half-time, and Ben Osborn added another just after the hour mark to make it 4-2.

Watkins then saw red for Barnsley soon afterwards, before Lansbury completed his hat-trick with a penalty in the 82nd minute to seal a second-straight away win for Forest. 

Winnall was at the heart of everything good about Barnsley in the first half, and he started and finished the move that gave them the lead in the fifth minute.

The striker dropped deep to pick up the ball before playing in James Bree, …

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