“Nobody expected to be here »

Notingm Forest Nust Nuno Santo manager says « Nobody » expected his club to run for a place in the Champions League after their last huge victory in Tottenham on Monday night.

Elliot Anderson and Chris Wood scored In London, as Forest responded to the weekend victories by Manchester City, Chelsea and Aston Villa to go back to third.

Their season may even improve when they return to London on Sunday for the FA Cup semi -final with Manchester City.

« First of all, we need to realize that we are in a battle that no one expected, including us, this 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 to rejoice. We are in the mixture against big teams and this can only make us proud.

« We take the challenge. We will have a big week for us, we will be Wembley to compete against a big team and there are many games in front of us. As we reserve this approach, competing well, you never know. »

After Wood ghosts between Christian Romero and Mickey Van de Ven to head to Anthony Elanga’s home, Tottenham improved, but Matis Tel and Richarlson wereted the chances of the first half before Deyan Kuluzevski’s 59th minute.

Then Muts Sels thwarted Richarlison twice before Brazil forwards home Delivery of Pedro Poro for three minutes, but the forest lingers.

Nuno added: « Of course, the last minutes were full of anxiety, wishing the time to continue faster and Tottenham put us against the ropes.

« We are very proud of the way we competed.

« I think the team competed well at the beginning of the game, we go goals and we were dominant even without the ball to try to master Tottenham.

« Although they had a chance, we had high levels again, Harry Tofolo’s permission, but the spirit is for it. »