JUST ACCEPT THE WIN
The most important thing we needed from our evening in Nottingham was 3 points.
Not a performance.
Not a warm and fuzzy feeling for the fans.
Not a hat trick for Emile Smith Rowe
We just needed to rob from the overspenders to feed our title challenge.
… and that’s exactly what happened.
Was it pretty" No. Did any of our players shower themselves in Balon d’Or glory" Most certainly not. What we did was exit an away game after a 10-day break with three meaty points. Who cares what the judges think"
The most important game of the season is Liverpool this weekend.
That’s not to say there were positives to take from the game. We dominated the majority of it in that cold, dull, sterile kind of way Manchester City tend to. Our off-the-ball work was exceptional; every time we lost the ball, we won it back instantly and recycled it into a familiar pitter-patter of getting into good positions and totally blowing them through lack of composure. Ben White, Baukayo Saka, Zinchenko, Gabriel Jesus and Martin Odegaard were all miles off when a final decision was needed. But we made a meal of it on our terms. Forest had nothing.
Then we scored two goals and everything felt bright and breezy again. Gabriel Jesus opened the scoring, racing into the Forest box from a Zinchenko pass, sticking an unlikely shot under Matt Turner. You felt like he needed that, it could be a spark, one that sends him on one of those Manchester City runs of form.
The second go...
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