Bristol City 2-2 Nottingham Forest
Adam Baker reports from Ashton Gate

Michael McIndoe had a stoppage time penalty saved as City missed the chance to end Nottingham Forest's 34-year long unbeaten run against them at Ashton Gate.

Forest twice led through goals from Joe Garner and Nathan Tyson, but City levelled on both occasions through goals from Marvin Elliott and Liam Fontaine.

Then, at the death, Luke Chambers' dubious foul on Stern John gave McIndoe the chance to win it, but Lee Camp guessed the right way to bag a point.

Forest would argue the penalty miss at the death was justice after referee Graham Horwood - in only his second-ever Championship appearance - marked a miserable display by softly awarding the spot-kick.

Horwood was fussy and whistle-happy throughout, failing to punish poor late challenges made by Carl Fletcher and James Perch, and also allowing Forest to time-waste constantly throughout the second period before showing just three minutes of added on time.

In a busy first half-hour chances came thick and fast for either side - and it could easily have been 2-2 or 3-3.

After Garner had fired an early warning shot straight at Adriano Basso, David Noble responded with a long range effort into Lee Camp's arms at the other end.

On six minutes City carved the visitors' defence open as Dele Adebola's flick on set Noble in the clear down the right. The midfielder's cut back eluded the Forest defence and handed Michael McIndoe a golden opportunity from ten yards, only for his low shot dribble agonisingly past Camp's left-hand post.

Forest kicked into gear moments later and Tyson skipped by Liam Fontaine down the left to set-up the opening goal. Tyson cut the ball back for Garner, who coolly side-stepped two tackles and bent his shot beyond Basso for 1-0.

On 20 minutes Johnson provided a defence-splitting pass to gift Adebola a chance to equalise. The big striker shrugged off his marker but lashed the ball over the top from a good position.

Marvin Elliott celebrates his first goal of the season

Brian Wilson, pushing forward from left-back, sliced a 25-yarder past the far upright before City survived at scare.

Tyson played a neat one-two with Garner to work his way into the penalty area and was only off-target by a matter of inches as he shot low across Basso.

Elliott finally drew City level on 38 minutes and it came like a bolt from the blue. Adebola rolled the ball into the midfielder's path from the right touchline and with the crowd screaming 'shoot', Elliott duly olbliged, finding the net with a 25-yard screamer in off the underside of the crossbar.

At the break Jamie McCombe was replaced by Cole Skuse. The defender had suffered a facial injury midway through the first 45 in a collision with Garner.

But the makeshift defender was quickly beaten to Luke Chambers' long ball forward by Tyson, who capitalised with a low shot past Basso for 2-1.

Elliott fired over from close range after being picked out by Johnson's right-wing cross, and then failed to connect properly with a Johnson free kick moments later.

Stern John and Nicky Maynard were introduced as City found it harder and harder to breakdown a resolute Forest.

Liam Fontaine takes aim to bring City level again at 2-2

At full stretch John teased a shot into Camp's arms almost immediately, while Skuse came close to an own goal when he inadvertently deflected a Paul Anderson shot just wide of his own goal.

As time ticked away, City became more and more frustrated, but then came Fontaine's equaliser with ten minutes to go.

The Forest defence failed to deal with a floated corner kick and Fontaine whipped the ball into the bottom corner from just inside the box.

Two minutes later Basso leapt superbly to his left to cling on to a Chambers thunderbolt from 25-yards.

The drama continued as Joe Heath denied John with a goal-line clearance and then Perch missed from two yards out.

Lee Camp guesses right to deny Michael McIndoe from the spot

But no one saw the last-gasp penalty award coming when John hit the deck in the box, with Chambers left gobsmacked by the award.

McIndoe stepped up - a week after being denied at Southampton - and found Camp too tough to beat. The on-loan QPR keeper dived to his right and pawed the ball behind to earn a point.