Ensuring a 1-0 victory over Manchester City in the city of the city on Saturday, Nottingham Forest is now one step closer to returning to European football for the first time since the 1980-81 season when they participated in the first round of the UEFA Cup. A team that has won the Cup twice in 1979 and 1980, difficult trees are the definition of a sleeping giant that only returns to the Premier League in the 2022-23 season after an absence of 18 seasons since the highest category.
Even last season, Forest finished 17 in the Premier League, avoiding the descent little, and with a strike by Callum Hudson -odoi, they feel third only behind the Arsenal and the Liverpool at the Premier League table. If they told him that Forest would be above City and Chelsea with only 10 remaining games in the season, the expectation would have been that the other two have been historically bad, but that is not the case: Forest will not resign.
On December 14, Forest entered the first four after scoring two goals after the 87th minute to defeat Aston Villa, and it seemed a good story that rubbed his shoulders with the elite of England, he would probably vanished. Fast advance 84 days and that has not been the case, now it takes the city at home. The forest can benefit from a delivery this season of Pep Guardiola men, but taking into account that they have suffered Blips by losing to Newcastle United and drawing with Arsenal in recent weeks, this was an important victory to correct the ship and maintain control of their destination in a tight race for the first five.
A sleeping giant
A club that has existed since 1865, Forest reached its peak at the end of the 70s making double in 1978 when they won the tripling of the First Division, the European Cup and the League Cup with Brian Clough. In the next season, they ended up as runners -up, but they could still secure the covers with the European Cup and at the same time win the UEFA Super Cup in 1979 and 1980. It may have spent time since difficult trees have tried success, but that does not mean they are strange.
After a descent to the championship in 2004, a roller coaster began with the team falling in the League one before making a return of the championship in 2008 (while Steve Cooper is not leading Forest to Europe, he changed his way to help ensure the promotion of the Premier League with 11 victories and six draws during a half season in 2022. Cooper.
Property investment
The property of Forest under Evangelos Marinakis has been mercurial, but it is one that can provide the team to compete once they arrive in Europe. Marinakis took over the forest in May 2017 with the aim of qualifying for Europe and is now close to ensuring that goal.
Spalling to bring players like Elliot Anderson, Kikola Milenkovic and Morato has already paid dividends, but Forest has done well in choosing the players from the rest of the Premier League with an attack directed by Morgan Gibbs-White, Chris Wood, Anthony Elanga and Hudson -odo.
Wood’s 18 goals this season have taken them to the table after their 14 goals in the season before keeping them in the Premier League. A underestimated striker during his time with Burnley, where Wood scored two -digit goals in four consecutive seasons for one side of the lower half, then was four consecutive seasons without scoring five goals before joining the forest and returning to his best moment to 32.
Going to the forest and becoming the best version of yourself has been an impressive part of your exploration and team configuration not only in Nuno but also previous managers. It is possible that this has not been the case of the half season of Gio Reyna in the city of the city, but these are reasons why Forest has been able to hit over its weight and it is also why they could have power of permanence. The UCL game can extend the teams to their limits, since Aston Villa and Newcastle United have noticed, but this is a forest team that signed an almost new team before being promoted to the Premier League and have many players with loan they can use. Only time will say how Forest will do in a new European trip, but the most difficult part is to return.
