'Excellent': Alan Shearer confesses what has really impressed him about Nuno at Nottingham Forest
12/24/2024 04:55 AM
Nottingham Forest are going into Christmas sitting in fourth place in the Premier League and things are on the up for the football club.
Nuno Espirito Santo has changed the perception of the football club during the first four months of the 2024/25 campaign.
Many pundits had the Reds as certainties for relegation with Gary Lineker already changing his mind about Forest this season.
He isn’t the only one of course and Robbie Earle was also guilty of a wild Forest prediction before a ball was kicked this season.
Now, Forest are going great guns in the Premier League and it would appear as though the Reds are already safe before Santa Claus has ever distributed his stash of presents!
Alan Shearer shares what has really impressed him about Nuno Espirito Santo
The Forest head coach has clearly benefitted from having a full pre-season with his players and building something at the City Ground.
It wasn’t easy for Espirito Santo when he first checked in at the club and joining midway through a campaign always throws up issues.
After Saturday’s 2-0 win over Brentford, however, Shearer has shared what has really impressed him about the Forest boss during the current campaign.
He told The Rest is Football podcast: “For them to go there and do what they did, Nuno has this style, they’re not bothered about the opposition having the ball and in fact, they’re quite happy when that happens if you look at the possession stats.
“Their recruitment has been excellent, they’ve got pace, they can hit you, they can be direct and they can go at times really, really quickly and that’s what they’re good at.”
