Nottingham Forest defenderHildeberto Pereira was shown a second yellow card for celebrating after setting up the equaliser in the dying embers of the dramatic 2-2 at Aston Villa, as perThe Sun.
The 20-year-old, on loan from Portuguese giants Benfica B, entered the Championship battle just after thehour mark, with his team 1-0 up thanks to an Apostolos Vellios strike.
Roberto Di Matteo's men quickly turned the tide after a quickfire double from Rudy Gestede and Ross McCormack, but Pereira was on hand to play a clever interchange with Henri Lansbury in the 88th minute, who poked in a clever finish to spark wild celebrations in the away stand at Villa Park.
WATCH: Nottingham Forest's Hildeberto Pereira sent off for celebrating goal: https://t.co/xE5jCPeEqL pic.twitter.com/euWFdg9FGb
The Benfica loanee, who had been booked just two minutes earlier, let his emotions get the better of him and celebrated with the ecstatic Forest supporters. But he was duly shown a second yellow for his actions, much to his anguish.
His teammates held on with ten men to claim the draw that propelled them 10th in the Championship table, but leaves Villa with just one win in six Championship matches.
The former Chelsea boss was disappointed with his side's failure to see out the match but he insists histeam are heading in the 'right direction.'
He said: "We need to win these games, it's as simple as that. That's why I was shaking my head at the end of the game, it's really difficult to take.
"I'm frustrated by the result because the performance was very good. We dominated the whole game. We hit the post, the bar, the keeper makes a couple of world (class) saves but we are moving in the right direction.
"With time we will learn and improve in these situations where we will be able to finish games off. Right now we have made a lot of changes in the transfer window. It's really frustrating but the performance was really good."
Video: Hildeberto Pereira, who's been dubbed as the new Renato Sanches with a fine assist for Forest today. #POR pic.twitter.com/BbUTcCENRz