“No one expected we would be here”

Nottingham Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo says that “no one” expected his club to be in the Champions League candidacy after their last huge victory at Tottenham on Monday night.

Elliot Anderson and Chris Wood have achieved achievement In London, while Forest responded to victory over the weekend from Manchester City, Chelsea and Aston villas to climb to third place.

Their season could even be better when he returned to London on Sunday to the semi -finals of FA Cup with Manchester City.

“First of all, we have to understand that we are in a fight that no one has expected, including us, and that is normal, but I do not want to prove that no one is wrong,” Nuno said.

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“It’s about us. We have a great desire to compete and players enjoy themselves. We are in mix against big teams and it can only make us proud.

“We accept the challenge. We are ahead of the Holy Week for us, we go to Wembley to compete against the big team and there are a lot of games ahead. As long as we hold this approach, we compete well, we never know.”

After Wood entered between Cristiano Romera and Micky Van de Ven to get home to Anthony Elanga Tottenham, they improved, but Mathys Tel and Richarlison broke the chances of the first half before Dejan Kulusevski’s head of a brilliant Harry Toffolo.

Matz Sels then prevented Richarlison twice before Brazil moved home to the Pedro Porro delivery with the remaining three minutes, but Forest stayed.

Nuno added: “Of course the last minutes were full of anxiety, wanting the time to pass faster and Tottenham put us against the rope.

“We are very proud of the way we competed.

“I think the team competed well at the beginning of the game, we achieve goals and we were dominant even without a ball to try to restrain Tottenham.

“Although they had a chance, we had a high -level rug again, the cleansing of Harry Toffol, but the spirit is about it.”