Very happy to get a big win out of that, a result that we'd possibly not have achieved in either of the past 2 seasons through our defensive weaknesses. Forest were decent and physical, the new signing from Benfica looked a really good player, and maybe they deserved a point, but the determination of our back line and a special save from Bentley saw it through.
I feared for Lewis as he appeared to have been "done" early on, but his recovery and overall performance was really encouraging. Very pleased with the new boys in general, although Sawyers wasn't as careful with the ball as he was on Saturday. Egan is a real find and Bentley looks like the GK upgrade we'd all hoped for. Elder came through a tough battle well too I thought. Great 1st half from Yennaris too who broke up play countless times, he comes back and results improve - no coincidence is it. We're winning big points at home now and despite not dominating possession or creating the chances we are used to, we still play some nice stuff at times. credit to DS for assembling a a more solid unit and way to win games whilst we look for a bit more quality to add to the side. Interesting that he seems to have seen enough from Josh, KK, Hoffman - preferring Sam Saunders to any of these as his 1st change.
Atmosphere was decent last night, looked way busier than on Sat to me. Again the irony of pimply Forest fans chanting "champions of Europe, you'll never see that" true, but neither did most of you fellas! When will they get that we have this all the time from some entitled fans of the so called big clubs, usually totally ignorant of our own history, anyway we love it and enjoy sticking it to you just that little bit more.
A great advert for the division and for GP at night, simply beautiful as ever.