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Nottingham Forest Head Nuno Espirito Santo said he was waiting for Taiwo Awoniyi to be allowed more visitors to the hospital and knows that the 27-year-old “good” after two abdominal surgery during the induced coma.
Awoniyi was seriously injured when he collided on Sunday with work during forests 2-2, at home in Leicester City, but the Nigerian internationary woke up from a coma and could be “around” the team during the last week in Premier league The season, Santo believes.
“I’ll try to visit as soon as possible,” Santo said, adding that Awoniyi was obliged to spend at least five days under observation.
“He’s in good hands and his family is there, what he really needs. The players are constantly talking about groups. We know he’s fine – he just needs time.”
Former Liverpool and Union Berlin Awoniyi striker was admitted on Monday night, located on Tuesday and woke up on Wednesday.
“I hope he will join us next week and be around, because he is a wonderful boy,” Santo said. “This season was so difficult for him, so I’m just sorry about him.
“The surgery went well, thank God, so now she’s in observation. Recoven about. We still have to wait for doctors to allow visits. His family is here. We are worried, but we are positive.
“If I had to change something, it would have been – if we knew the seriousness of the injury – to call an ambulance to take T to the hospital immediately. But none of us knew that.”
“He’s a wonderful boy.” ❤️
Nuno with an update on Taiwo. 🗣️
– Nottingham Forest (@nffc) May 16, 2025
The incident happened while the game was allowed to continue before a confirmed decision at the Offside, increasing the discussion of whether the rules should change to allow the assistants of the judge to stop playing before.
Santo said that officials cannot be “blamed” for what happened because “the law is like that” and the judges have “instructions to follow”.
Former Premier League referee Keith Hackett said this week that the protocol over the reviews of the Video Assistant (VAR) can endanger the players.
“With the introduction of VAR, the procedure of assistant judges who delayed the flag came to pointing to the offshore to the outcome – whether naked or possessing the ball from defense,” Hackett told Radio 5 Live, Via, by the way BBC Sport.
“This will be ensured when the assistant judge is wrong about the offsid decision, this does not affect that the goal is wrong. Unfortunately, this practice is at risk of injury players.”
Our last trip in the season. 🛣️ pic.twitter.com/m4d2xjPOsp
– Nottingham Forest (@nffc) May 16, 2025
Forest visit West Ham Sixth DNA on Sunday (14:15 BST) before hosting Chelsea on May 25th in a game that could decide which of the clubs for the Champions League.
“It was very difficult for us and everyone, because of the injury (Awoniyi) and the situation he had passed,” Santo said.
“We have a hard time. We have to move forward now. We cannot accept that after everything we do, now our attention is not on what is really important – play against West Ham.
“It’s harder, especially because of the absence of T and the care of players. They try to get news.
“It upsets all. We would change everything to have healthy with us. But we have to move forward. It is our obligation to prepare for the game.”
Forest fell to the seventh after winning three games, and it was guaranteed that it would end up in at least that position.
Probably a surprise to the top season, Santa’s side is a point behind Blues in the fifth and final place of the Champions League qualification and three shy fourth placements of Manchester City, although both of these teams have a significant superiority of naked over them.
They will surely achieve their highest end of the league from 1994/95, when they came to third place.
Before the penultimate round of the Premier League match, statistics experts select Gave the forest a 17.1% chance of ends up in the top five.
Opta Recon Forest has a 59.4% chance of coming seventh, 23.4% for sixth, 13.1% for fifth and 0.4% third, and Chelsea is a team that he believes will most likely take the last position of the Champions League qualification.
Forest never reached the modern Champions League, but won the 1978/79 and 1979/80 competition when it was called the European Cup.
Their last participation in the European Cup was in 1980/81, with all three of their continental campaigns since then have arrived at the UEFA CUP, which is now known as the Europe League.
Recently they went through three UEFA Cup rounds to reach the 1995/96 quarterfinals, losing 7-2 to the aggregate in Bayern Munich.