Nottingham Forest defeated Leicester City 3-1 at the King Power Stadium on Friday to win for the second time in a week in the Premier League.
Forest beat Crystal Palace 1-0 on Monday night and that was followed up with another impressive performance on the road.
Nuno Espirito Santo hasn’t tasted defeat away from the City Ground yet this season and that record will remain intact going into the next international break.
Arsenal are the next team that Forest face on the road and hopefully, the Reds will have the belief that they can get something there too.
Jamie Carragher was very impressed with Forest on Friday night and once again there were a number of top-performing players.
Gary Neville admits Nottingham Forest star has seriously surprised him
Forest are busy surprising a number of pundits this season and it would appear as though exciting times are on the horizon this season.
In the £80,000-a-week Chris Wood, Forest have something that is the envy of a number of clubs in the Premier League and it’s a goalscorer in fine form.
Wood scored his sixth and seventh goal of the season on Friday night and Neville confessed he’s been surprised by the Forest star.
He said on Sky Sports: “We thought a player like Chris Wood in the last five, six, seven, eight years would probably be extinct.
“The idea of this big lump of a centre-forward at 6ft 2in or 3in that isn’t quick, probably, I mean, he is a handful but they seem to be just coming back a little bit, this sort of direct play, the fact that you need a big man upfront.
“Forest play right to his strengths because they are quite direct.”
Wood deserves a new Forest contract
The Reds have to get a new contract sorted for the big talisman and right now he’s among the in-form players in the Premier League.
Forest have made a blistering start to the 2024/25 campaign and without Wood who knows where Forest might be?
The Reds decided not to sign a striker during the summer transfer window and that has helped Wood pick up where he left off last term.
Although the player is currently 32-years-old, he’s in great form and that should see him earn a new contract with Forest.
A player scoring regularly in the Premier League is worth their weight in gold and Forest can’t afford to let Wood leave for free next summer.
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