Nottingham | Forest need to dig deep to avoid relegation

Do Forest have the fight and courage to avoid relegation?

This is the question asked by Forest fan Kieran M

Disclaimer | All views here are that of the fan and not Super Local Sports News

Looking at the Forest side at Manchester City, I turned to a supporter beside me and asked a simple question: how does a squad with this much talent find itself locked in a relegation fight? 

The same could be said of Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United. Yet as things stand, one of the three appears destined for the drop.

At either end of the table the principle is the same. Teams need their biggest players to step forward. Whether the prize is silverware and European football or simply the preservation of Premier League status, those who carry the most weight must be seen when it matters.

There is little doubt that Morgan Gibbs-White, Elliot Anderson and Murillo will be playing top-flight football next season. I suspect they know it, their representatives certainly do, and the travelling support packed into the away end in the North West likely recognise it as well.

For now, though, what mattered most was that all three turned up and delivered in a match many, myself included, had quietly pencilled in as a routine win for Manchester City.

The highlights will inevitably linger on the moments of flair: Gibbs-White’s audacious backheel finish, Anderson’s curling effort beyond one of the world’s finest goalkeepers, and Murillo’s dramatic clearance off the line in the dying seconds.

Yet the result rested on far more than those flashes of brilliance. It was built on a collective effort, a team performance that suggested Nottingham Forest could even have left with more than a point.

If there were doubts beforehand, this display offered a reminder that Forest are capable of standing tall and trading blows with the best sides the league has to offer.

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Maintaining that level every week will not be easy. But anyone questioning the commitment to the shirt need only recall the sight of Nikola Milenković taking a powerful City strike full in the face from close range. 

He shook it off with barely a pause, then immediately barked instructions for the back line to push up in search of an offside. It was the sort of moment that speaks as loudly as any goal.