Nottingim Forest coach Nono Espirito Santo says ‘no one’ didn’t expect the club to be adorned to a place in the Champions League after their last victory in Tottenham on Monday night.
Elliott Anderson and Chris Wood scored in London, while Forest responded at the weekend to Manchester City, Chelsea and Aston Villa to qualify for third place.
Their season can even improve when they return to London on Sunday for the FA Cup semi-finals with Manchester City.
“First of all, we must all know that we are in a battle that no one was waiting for.
“We can’t thank the fans so much. ❤️
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“It’s about us. We have great desires to compete and the players enjoy it. We are in the mixture against the big teams and that can only be proud of us,” he said.
“We’re hugging the challenge. We’re on a big week for us, we’re going to Wembley to play against a big team and there’s a lot of game ahead.
After caught Wood between Christian Romero and Mickey van de Vink to go home, Cross Tottenham Anthony Elanga improved, but Mattis Tel and Richardson wasted the chances of the first half before Dijan Colosevsky 59th minutes of the league was shining in the line.
Matts Celes then thwarted Richarlisone twice before the Brazilian striker went home and had three minutes left to deliver Pedro Poro, but Forrest seized him.
“Of course, the final leagues were full of anxiety. He wished to go faster and Tottenham put us against the ropes,” Nuno added.
“We are very proud of the way we participated.
“I think the team played well at the beginning of the game. We will achieve the goals and we even dominate the ball to try to include Tottenham,” he said.
“Although they had a chance, but we had a high level of mattes at a high level, cleaning Harry Tofolo, but the soul is on it.