Nottingham Forest player receives two ESM XI nominations in World Soccer, but he was suspect vs Arsenal
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Nottingham Forest have enjoyed a weird but somehow wonderful start to the 2024/25 Premier League campaign.
It’s weird in the sense that nobody – not least the club’s supporters – anticipated the Reds being seventh in the Premier League table after 12 games.
What has been so refreshing and wonderful about it is that pundits and so-called experts already look foolish for writing the team off.
Gary Lineker has already changed his Forest prediction. He’d be wise to focus on things closer to home with Leicester sacking Steve Cooper already.
Robbie Earle has claimed that Forest now won’t go down and some of the early season predictions look really silly indeed.
With Forest playing superbly well prior to the two recent defeats, some of the team’s players have come into the spotlight and in World Soccer this month there is a surprise revelation.
Matz Sels gets two nominations for World Soccer ESM XI
The European Sports Media XI is something that has been religiously published on a monthly basis by the long running magazine World Soccer.
Journalists from all over Europe pick their best players across the month and at the end of the season, a best XI is created based on the season’s votes.
In October, Forest star Sels received two votes to put him tied in second for a place in the end-of-season team – and this is pretty unheard of for Forest players.
Sels was brilliant in October and managed to keep a clean sheet against Crystal Palace during that month.
It was perhaps his performance against Chelsea that really caught the eye, however, with Sels earning praise from Joe Hart on that day.
Sels didn’t cover himself in glory vs Arsenal
It’s great that a Forest player is getting noticed by something so reputable but Sels is perhaps still striving for a bit of consistency.
Although he could do nothing about the goals scored by Bukayo Saka and Thomas Partey at the weekend, he perhaps could have done better with Ethan Nwaneri’s goal.
There was only really one place that the Arsenal youngster could have placed his effort and Sels was a little bit too slow to react.
Nonetheless, Sels has some credit in the bank at Forest and he should have enough about him to remain as the club’s number one across the campaign.
