Nottingham Forest are gearing up for a home game with Fulham on Saturday after taking four points from away trips to Liverpool and Brighton.
The Reds have nine points from the opening five games of the Premier League campaign and that represents a very solid start to the season.
Forest were held to a 2-2 draw by Brighton on Sunday, with Chris Wood and Ramon Sosa scoring the goals for the visitors.
The game was marred late on from a Forest perspective when Morgan Gibbs-White was dismissed after collecting a second yellow card for a tackle on Joao Pedro.
Gibbs-White will now miss the home clash against Fulham and that means Nuno Espirito Santo will have to find another option for his number 10 role.
What Morgan Gibbs-White did on his day off yesterday
Some of the players who started the game on Sunday were given an extra day off yesterday, with Gibbs-White seemingly getting some extra time to recharge the batteries.
He won’t be in action now until a week on Sunday when the Reds face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the last game before the international break.
Gibbs-White didn’t put his feet up though and instead, he got himself out on the training pitch with the youth team to put them through their paces.
On Instagram, the partner of the Forest attacker posted on her Instagram story that she was in attendance with the pair’s young child to watch Gibbs-White putting on a session for the youngsters.
It wasn’t clear from the photo which age group it was he was coaching but Gibbs-White could clearly been seen dishing out instructions.
Gibbs-White is leading by example as Forest captain
The 24-year-old is a fine attacker and an even better person with a personality that will carry him a long way in the professional game.
Gibbs-White has taken his game to another level since signing for Forest in 2022 and it’s fair to say that he thoroughly deserved his England call-up earlier this month.
This sort of thing merely shows the type of leader that Gibbs-White is and it’s fascinating to see that he’s already taken to coaching the youngsters at the club.
Forest probably consider Ryan Yates as the club captain but there are now a number of players including Gibbs-White, Chris Wood, Nikola Milenkovic and James Ward-Prowse who make up a leadership group.
Gibbs-White won’t have to turn his attention to a coaching career just yet but clearly it’s something he’s keen to get hands-on with when the opportunity comes his way.
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