Forest Grn 1 – 0 Sheff Wed

Duncan Ferguson recorded his long-awaited first win as Forest Green supervisor after Jordan Garrick’s first-half strike noticed Rovers previous high-flying Sheffield Wednesday.

Everton legend Ferguson – who took cost of the Toffees in two separate interim spells – changed Ian Burchnall at The Bolt New Lawn on January 26 and misplaced seven of his first 9 video games in cost.

But Garrick’s strike after 35 minutes ensured Rovers gave their ailing survival hopes a lift and denied Darren Moore’s facet the prospect to return to the highest of League One after their second straight defeat.

Second-placed Wednesday got here near equalising within the 67th minute however Lee Gregory was denied by the mixed efforts of Ross Doohan and Udoka Godwin-Malife.

Doohan then pulled off a positive save to repel Marvin Johnson as time ticked away, with Rovers holding on to file a primary win since December.

Ferguson: First win a proud second | ‘Why cannot we win our final eight?’

Forest Green’s Duncan Ferguson:

“I feel all people deserved that at present. I believed the boys put an unbelievable shift in. It’s a proud second for myself and a proud second for the followers to topple one of many massive boys within the league.

“It’s tough because you know you’ve got to be perfect for most of the game – and I thought we were. They hardly created any chances, other than long balls into our box, and we defended them well. We created the better chances and should have been two or three up. The boys were absolutely fantastic today.

“It exhibits that we’re able to getting outcomes. We’ve been very shut in 4 or 5 different video games, however by no means fairly received over the road, however at present we received over the road and have been worthy winners. I knew we have been getting shut.

“There’s games to play, there’s points to win – if we can play like that in every game, why can’t we win them all?”