People also forget that when Cooper took over in Sep 2021 we were rock bottom of the Championship with 4 points from 8 games, and somehow turned it into promotion. Between him and Nuno they've performed miracles.
Forest winning the EPL in this mass monetized day and age would arguably be an even bigger achievement than their 3 year rise from the old second division (now championship) to European Cup winners in the late 1970's under the legendary late Brian Clough. As a Liverpool fan, I am obviously hoping we win it but part of me actually wants Forest to pull off a Leicester 2.0. It would be the most amazing underdog success story.
I think we also fired Cooper at exactly the right time. He was an absolute mastermind in the Championship, but it was clear after a season-and-a-half in the EPL that he had some glaring flaws (particularly his loyalty to guys in the back 4 who just weren't up to the calibur of the league). Nuno came in and spent this summer building the defense with fresh eyes, and it's been the biggest difference for the side.
People forget how decent Chris Wood was at Burnley. The guy scored double figures in the Premier league for about 5 years in a row for the most defensive side in the league (including one season where he scored 14 or 15). Wood has like 85 premier league goals, and is likely to make the 100 goals club, which is a very exclusive list. Especially given wood didn't start playing in the premier league regularly until he was like 25.
I doubt he well make the 100 club. His luck will run out and he will return to being the lower side of average. His form, as the video suggests, isn't sustainable and he is already 33.
As a Forest fan of 45 years, this is the proudest I've felt since 1996 when we reached the UEFA Cup QF (the only British CLub to reach the last 8 of either European Comp that season). No-one will want to play us now - home OR away - in fact we are better Away from home ! I still think that 4th is the best we will do - but the thought of CL football is astonishing given the past 25 years !
As a Liverpool fan, I'm more worried about Forest than I am Arsenal. Nuno has got them playing some brilliant football. Chris Wood is a baller, and is a proper striker.
Arsenal try to walk the ball into the net. Forest play on the break. Lots of examples of opposition being on edge of our box, and then 3-4 passes later they've just conceded - that's what happened at Anfield. I'll take a point next Tuesday, just to keep the Points tally ticking upwards - then we won't have to think about Liverpool again this season !!
We're a weirdly difficult matchup for Liverpool, I think. We're built to take advantage of teams that function best when they press high up the pitch, and Liverpool's attack has been winning matches by smothering defenders with pressure. Going to be fascinating to watch.
I've been a Forest fan since the League One 2006/07 season days, but the past three years have felt like one of our fans has sucked off a genie in exchange for the secret recipe for success or something... It's like every piece of our jigsaw puzzle has been shaken up in the box and magically assembled. Milenkovic and Anderson have been fantastic signings, and the injuries to Sangare and Danilo early in the season has forced us to play this style of football that sees us have less of the ball, but counter attack more effectively. Milenkovic's height is the PERFECT complement to Murillo's lack of it. Murillo's technical ability is the PERFECT match for Milenkovic's less technique-based approach. I also heard that Matz Sels has not had an error leading to a goal in over ten years of playing, and although the Premier League website states he was at fault for one this season, other websites say he still hasn't. You will NEVER see Sels play out from the back, which potentially surrenders possession, but also means we might hit you on the break more often. Wood is so clinical because we seemed to have taken Sean Dyche's approach to managing him: stop thinking Wood's a target man to hold up the ball or wrestle people off it. He's NOT. He's clinical, and he's a great header of the ball, and if you give him the service, he will score. They're not the same thing. The job Steve Cooper did was nothing short of phenomenal. Nuno is carrying that mantle to perfection. I sincerely hope we can get a European spot this season, because Nuno and the players deserve it.
It's really refreshing to see a team who doesn't care much about possession, yeah. Counterattacking teams have become my favorite ones to watch. Brentford is similar, like a mini-Forest but much more leaky defensively. Still, both are absolutely deadly on the counter. I guess it's also always why I rooted for Liverpool in title races as opposed to City, Arsenal or others
Congratulations to Nottingham Forest I hope they qualify for the UCL next year. I hope they display their 2 UCL trophies like Aston Villa did this season.
Murillo had only played 13 senior games when we signed him. It's one thing for Napoli or City to be linked with him, but clubs like that rarely pull the trigger on players who have barely played senior football, let alone put them pretty much straight into the team.
Newcastle fan here. Forest are amazing this year. People keep saying 'they'll drop off' but it never seems to happen. You have to say it's at least partly Nuno...
15:42 more context to the man management. The team spend a lot of time together outside of training and matches. Just the other week, Murillo and his wife had a gender reveal for their baby at the city ground. Teammates, family and friends were present There is a real close knit feel to the squad, so I think this goes hand in hand with the other aspects of our resurgence
Stuff like that doesn't get spoken about enough in my opinion, is all well and good players having great talent, but when they have real connections, both to the club and to each other, it really goes the distance with how they perform as a squad
I wouldn’t be surprised if they finish above us (Arsenal). They look mor dangerous and a more coherent unit. Long May it continue, they have my backing.
It's worth mentioning that the players seem to get on really well off the pitch. I see quite a few of the players in a couple of local bars/cafes quite often at weekends just enjoying eachothers company. Stuff like that just adds to team morale and helps loads.
In the spirit of Ryuzaki Day 15 of asking for an in-depth video on Bodø/Glimt, who just recently became champions for the 4th time in 5 years, and who only got promoted back to Eliteserien as recently as 2017 Furthermore, they now regularly compete in Europe, have kept their successful trainer Kjetil Knutsen, and are on course for a new modern stadium that will replace Aspmyra I got here early now Alfie. I know you want this. Let me seduce you. Make this video happen 🔥 Cheers! 🇳🇴😎
@JinZanmato Rosenborg definitely needs a "what on earth" video. Used to be the pride of Norwegian football, now most definitely in their banter era. And they have been for a long time
Looks like Rosenborg experience much of the same as Man United. Struggling to adapt and form an identity with a winning mentality after Nils Arne Eggen left (just as Man United after Ferguson). Their chairman strike me as somewhat of a clown too. Just the impression I got. But what do a humble Stabæk fan like me know what really going at Rosenborg? 😂
@JinZanmato 100%, Eggen brought Rosenborg as far as the QF in CL where they got beaten by Juventus. Their club history is rich and mighty. No Norwegian club has reached the group stage of the CL since 2007. Reaching a CL QF is unimaginable. Bodø/Glimt reached the QF of the Conference League and only lost out to eventual winners Roma, but it's still the third highest tier of European Competition Now they are way, way behind Bodø/Glimt and Molde, and I struggle to see what their coach is going for. But I'm not an RBK fan, so wtf do I know 🤷♂️
As a Nottingham Forest fan, and a subscriber of 5-6 years, I thought the day would never come, and, if it did, I thought it would be us going either bankrupt or going to League One. May it continue, and perhaps another HITC Sevens video soon.
Hopefully for Forest and their fans, the club can be in a European spot when the season is done. Especially happy for Nuno getting some redemption in terms of his reputation
To be fair to Taiwo, he only got 200 minutes in 15 games in the league. Of course there are probably reasons, why he isn't getting more, but with more regular minutes, I think he could find his form again.
I assume the same people who think our form isn't sustainable due to a lack of possession also think Southampton are going to climb the table soon due to their relatively high possession?
been a fan since their first season back in the prem, i always hoped they did good this season like between 15th or 10th but damn they exceeded my expectations by light years
I'm going to be honest, I'd completely forgotten about the points deduction and just how mad their transfer business has been since they came up, because Forest isn't a club that I follow very closely and everything this season has been good vibes only. It's easy to root for Forest because of their illustrious history and because of how long they spent in the doldrums, and because it's refreshing to see any team upset the status quo at the top of the Prem, and I guess that's why they've felt like such a cool story even though they broke all the rules to get to this point. I dunno, I'm just chuffed for them. And just from a footballing sense, it is extraordinary that this seems to have clicked into place so suddenly and so well, much like Chelsea's mad business and disparate parts finally gelling under Maresca. And it's more extraordinary that it's happening under a manager everyone said was washed after his failure at Spurs - although perhaps the problems currently faced by Postecoglu should be an indicator that it's actually a really tough job to get right.
I’m upset Santiago Giménez didn’t take forests offer in the summer, I wonder if he’s regretting his decision now that they are near the top of the table 🤦🏻♂️
As a Chelsea fan, I was gutted to see CHO leave. Nice to see him turn into a real threat on the LW once again, even after the injuries and the bad Leverkusen loan.
Great content! Just FYI, it’s not Boly or Ward-Prowse who come off the bench to sure up when winning - it’s Morato and Yates/Doninguez (depending on who’s not starting)
@@jackmanley1473 absolutely spot on! I think Dominguez also brings a bit more energy when we’re looking for all our counters too! It’ll be interesting to see how that changes when we get Danilo back to 100% & Sanghare too (as well as any Jan signings)
Thank you, it always soothes my sanity when someone else has already offered a correction. I am a little disappointed that Alfie didn't pick this up, his videos usually seem so well informed. He didn't even bring up that we can change formation halfway through a match and put a stranglehold on any oppositions attack. (if we're winning).
I'm happy for Forest. I don't know how happy they want me to be, being a Toon fan, but I'm happy for them. Nuno's playing style seems to work really well with his players, and it's great to see the league get some back-to-basics football that actually *works*. They deserve to be where they are in the League and long may it continue. --- Day 5 of the Restart: There is a country called the East African Federation that does not, at time of writing, exist. It comprises Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. They're all footballing powerhouses, as we know. My premise is: what would a national team for the East African Federation look like? The ground rules are: you can't pick anyone who has played for another men's senior national team outside the eight listed countries. For example, Aaron Wan-Bissaka is eligible, as he's only ever played for England at U-20 and U-21 level, but the likes of Christopher Nkunku, Youri Tielemans, and Romelu Lukaku are off-limits for reasons I should hope are obvious. Ironically, back when I first started proposing this idea, Nkunku was eligible, as he had yet to be picked for the French senior team. The same is also true for Mike Tresor, who lit up the Belgian Pro League and broke the league record for assists in a single season, and who would have been eligible due to his Burundian and Rwandan heritage. He now plays for Burnley, if you're wondering just what this team's dealing with. =]
And this my friend is why Forest and Newcastle fans like each other..Good luck bro, I hope we both get into the CL next season, more real fans in those home stadiums than most of the tourist clubs of the so called big 6, both Forest and Newcastle deserve it more than most
I really do appreciate the way that Forest plays because I think it's a lot of what I feel has been missing. Forest aren't a passing team, they're aren't going to carve you up with fast intricate passing. No, they're gonna defend, and then carve you up on the break with their quicker players. They've realized that they don't necessarily have the players for possession style, so they don't play possession style--I think a lot of teams try to play possession style, because they know it works, but it works because you have the players to facilitate it. I think a lot of coaches build a system and then fit players into that system, and less coaches build a system out of the players.
yep. Southampton are the polar opposite of Forest lol. They are like an even worse Norwich, playing possession football as one of the worst teams in the division, failing badly, and inevitably going straight back down
With Nuno getting his wish of a full pre-season, the club conducted a reset and a comprehensive evaluation across every sector and department. This has proved crucial not only for the first team but also for the women's team, who have adopted a hybrid fully professional model, even as a tier three side. Another important factor was the construction of a new gym and medical centre, which includes recovery and relaxation areas at the renovated training ground at the NDA (Nigel Doughty Academy) The women's team has its own base at the former training centre at Holme Road, which has also been fully renovated.
Ac milan are always suck in the league. They're no juventus who has always conquered the league in Italy. Heck, even Inter are better in terms of league records.
I mean it's not hard to imagine that a bunch of guys from Nottingham would break all the rules imaginable and be investigated perhaps by authorities... and also be incredibly successful
Wolves should have never got rid of Nuno. We finished 7th twice and then, in the Covid season finished 13th, and they sacked him. We'd never finished higher that 13th in the PL before Nuno and have only managed it once since.
Not a jab! but just a note that Murillo is pronounced will an ‘ill’ like in quill - as ll = y is the spanish pronunciation, not the Portuguese one. Fantastic video!
Also, Forest have few left-footed players. Murillo as the LCB, and Alex Moreno on loan from Villa as the left back are two I can think of, but often Neco Williams and Ola Aina play as full backs, and they are both primarily right footed. Similarly on the wings, Elanga, Hudson-Odoi, Sosa... all primarily right-footed. This is in an era where clubs often insist to have left footed leftbacks and right wingers, and opposite for the other sides, so credit to them for making it work regardless
Cool with Forest this year. I was a little afraid last year after all their transfer dealings, that they could take a "Q.P.R" ... (Not on the level QPR fell through of course hehe) But surviving that difficult 1st season and giving them the gift of summer and time, seems to have made all the difference ... And Forest belong in the top league along side Leeds and Sheff Wed (In my 50 year old brains meaning :)
From sitting in the lower bridgeford watching yeovil knock us out the play offs spectacularly, to seeing us tear teams apart in the premier, has me thinking I am in some sort of dream 😅
The thing is this Premier League season in general has been kinda bonkers. Bournmouth are in theory also Champions League contenders being only 3 points off the spots, Aston Villa are still up there also being 4 points off. (Also Newcastle are up there as well though given their owned by the Saudi's that's not really as big a deal as would of been before). Meanwhile Tottenham and Manchester United both find themselves in the bottom half of the table, with both sides closer to the relegation spots than to the Champions League. (It probably won't happen BUT can you imagine if one of those two went down, the humorous disaster it would be).
SPurs, Man Utds AND Man City all having poor seasons is a major reason for Forest's success this season. And I say that as a Forest fan. Although I think that Man City will have a much better 2nd half of the season, I can't see Spurs or United overtaking us now. I think that we are odd on for Top 7.....but cannot see us finishing Top 3, I'm afraid.
@@rjw4762 yep, if Liverpool also weren't as good as they are, you'd basically have the condition for the 15/16 Leicester season once again, where all the top teams underperformed and Leicester won with 81 points, which isn't a lot
Nuno is a very good coach and this basically guarantees him another top job with the caveat of a few signings making this a top job like what Emery did at Villa. Can't wait to see how it ends up.
I had no idea, what the club have done is not the fans fault I am chuffed to bits for their fans, getting into that position after just having been promoted is seriously impressive.
This sounds like a video where we are being complimented, albeit backhandedly and almost somewhat like a slander piece because we do things differently on and off the pitch to the majority of teams who are now crying because we did it, they didn't and it worked
I thought it is a well balanced video, as it doesn't come from someone wearing Garibaldi tinted goggles. It explains what we did and why in the first season and earnestly compliments the club on and off the field. It also puts our success this season in context, stat-wise. Not many channels will put out such a lengthy piece that goes past the surface of Forest.
Considering Forest isn't your club, that's pretty impressive knowledge!... As a Forest fan though, if I was to be picky, I'd perhaps have made more of the fact that we were league one bound, bottom of the championship hence the state of the squad, we also only breached rules as we didn't want to sell Brennen Johnson at the beginning of the window (PSR cut off which is mental) for £30,000,000 to Brentford when we knew we could get more for him (just basic good business sense) towards the end of the window. So ultimately still at fault but it wasn't as cynical a breach as you make it sound..... Also.... We play good football but shuuuush 🤫 don't tell anyone, we like all the negative media to keep ignoring the details 😉;we are lethal and attacking! Yes, I said it, attacking! 😆 None of this passing around for the sake of possession with no threat in front of your own keeper. You show me a team that when it has the ball looks more deadly and with attacking intent that Forest!
honestly as a strasbourg fan i still don't understand why we sold sels for so cheap he was a really good goalkeeper for years maybe too good for us but men seeing him doing so well make me happy but at the same time kinda sad cause his departure and some other strated the blue and co ownership just hope he can keep his current form cause i think he was underated and at least he manage to leave the ship before it sunk
Day 13 Best 7 Norwegian players in premier league excluding Haaland and Ødegaard(too predictable) Nottingham Forest is such a refreshing team in Premier league. Always love a good underdog story and someone else other then the normal, filthy rich clubs making it. 😁
If we make it into the CL that’s a massive win. I don’t think there is a title race anymore, Liverpool are too strong. This has been the best gamble ever. We are safe by new year.
It is cool that they are doing good, however over the last two years they have have ranked exceptionally high in players brought in and expenditures in the Premier League, for a team new to the league. They spent one place less than City, and in added players they are one place below Chelsea. (in terms of ranking in the prem over past 2 seasons). So basically they are a special case for a reason. Credit to the player's and lower staff's performance of course
I love the tricky trees! I got paid money to test out a football game before I knew anything about the league and chose the club due to age and the fact I didn't know the place Robin hood came from was real. I should've stuck with them when i started watching the premier league but thought they'd be relegated last year
The question becomes whether or not taking the risk of breaching PSR was worth it to keep Forrest up rather than joining the remaining yo-yo clubs like Sheffield United, Southampton, Burnley, Leeds and the others that may fall into this category. European football seems to indicate that it was a worthwhile gamble. And while the Europa League may certainly be more winnable, current form may see them in the Champions League next season and that’s where the biggest money is going to be.
Fingers in ears "nah, nah, nah, nah, nah". Notts County fan here. How is Chris Donkey Wood in the top 20 players in the top 5 leagues for combined goals and assists? Shenanigans!!!
I seem to remember back in 2023 a certain UA-camr using a Chris Wood premier league hat trick as an analogy for an extremely unlikely event about 2 weeks before the Newcastle game…
Murilo was a player from Corinthians, the team that I support here in Brazil, he came from our youth ranks and he was amazing for us, such a solid and brave defender, I still don't believe we sold him for almost nothing.
Day 10 of asking for a video of the 7 greatest non-league players of all time. EDIT: Would the 7 greatest lower league players of all time make a slightly better video instead? Much like the one Alfie made about the 7 biggest lower league clubs a few days ago?
Arsenal fan here, but have a soft spot for Forest, too young for the Brian Clough era but the achievements of that great team will never be matched. I hope they get CL, would be great to see them display those two iconic European cups like Villa do this season 😄
i'm hardly watching football nowdwys, its just way to much of it nowdays, its overwhelming to keep track of it, but been a subscriber of hitc7 since 2018 so this might be my only source of news in football i depth nowdays
Great video. Forest are flying... but Leicester... they are not. Spent so much on players and wages and got found guilty of breaking the rules. If it weren't for how bad the promoted teams were last season, they'd be heading towards League 1 by now with spiralling debt.
I don't think Forrest's success is truly sustainable but its good to see someone different up there having success & hopefully they return to Europe next year. It also highlights how football is cyclical, Forrest play a 2024 brand of 2010 Stoke football. A close knit team, that plays simple football with hard working physical players that will outwork and out fight you. Then you keep the ball out of you net at all costs and be clinical at set pieces. Will be interesting what happens with Chris Wood if a Big 4 team gets an injury in the next few weeks, they could put Forrest in a difficult situation with a £10 - £15 mil offer. Clearly he's playing the best football of his career at the moment that short term should be mildly sustainable. Do they risk him leaving for free in the summer to keep this going or try to cash in on a 33 year old striker in the last 6 months of his contract having a career season. it would be hard to then hold back a total pros pro from having that move at 33 where this would be his only chance to ever go to a club like that even if it was on an 18 month contact where he knows he will be a short term fill in and then bench player
Forest lowkey had some decent players, but they needed some time to put it all together. When they got promoted they lost almost all the squad and had to start over. But I had faith that some signings like Gibbs-White would end up paying dividends.
Basically I want to slag of everything that Forest have done and I hate it and I can't understand why they are there but I have to comment on about it for views with my shit voice .... Appreciate the work involved in putting this together but feck me you just bored me to death ...
No need to apologize Alfie it’s quite alright
No it’s not
@@Joeyplaysguitar1082 you're right, he's way out of line here
Quintessential Britishess to begin a sentence with an apology
@@madjack18 no wonder they founded canada
People also forget that when Cooper took over in Sep 2021 we were rock bottom of the Championship with 4 points from 8 games, and somehow turned it into promotion. Between him and Nuno they've performed miracles.
Forest winning the EPL in this mass monetized day and age would arguably be an even bigger achievement than their 3 year rise from the old second division (now championship) to European Cup winners in the late 1970's under the legendary late Brian Clough.
As a Liverpool fan, I am obviously hoping we win it but part of me actually wants Forest to pull off a Leicester 2.0. It would be the most amazing underdog success story.
I think we also fired Cooper at exactly the right time. He was an absolute mastermind in the Championship, but it was clear after a season-and-a-half in the EPL that he had some glaring flaws (particularly his loyalty to guys in the back 4 who just weren't up to the calibur of the league). Nuno came in and spent this summer building the defense with fresh eyes, and it's been the biggest difference for the side.
Steve is nowhere near Nuno level.
@@jackmanley1473 If you believe in deja vu, Forest have the same number of points after twenty games (40) as what Leicester did in 2016.
@@jackmanley1473 yeah, I think because you had a replacement lined up, it all worked out well.
People forget how decent Chris Wood was at Burnley. The guy scored double figures in the Premier league for about 5 years in a row for the most defensive side in the league (including one season where he scored 14 or 15). Wood has like 85 premier league goals, and is likely to make the 100 goals club, which is a very exclusive list. Especially given wood didn't start playing in the premier league regularly until he was like 25.
I remember feeling like he was a much better option for United than Weghorst
I doubt he well make the 100 club. His luck will run out and he will return to being the lower side of average. His form, as the video suggests, isn't sustainable and he is already 33.
@@cheifwhat the guy is like 1 season away from the 100 club
he might be the goat
People also forget that how good was he in Leeds United
As a Forest fan of 45 years, this is the proudest I've felt since 1996 when we reached the UEFA Cup QF (the only British CLub to reach the last 8 of either European Comp that season). No-one will want to play us now - home OR away - in fact we are better Away from home ! I still think that 4th is the best we will do - but the thought of CL football is astonishing given the past 25 years !
You reds!!!!
I hope you make UCL football next season, however, you might even win the Prem this season 😮 this season looks very similar to the 15/16 season...
We will win against liverpool on a large margin next week ! And trust me after that we will be discussed all over the world again 💥🌳
@@DJ-dk8he Speak to you after the game
And we went out to Bayern Munich
4-2-3-1✅, fast and physical players✅, buying Brazilian wonder kids before the traditional big clubs do✅. This sounds like a classic fm save to me
Yup.. something suspicious is going on 😂
Been waiting for this one. We are staying up! COYR!
Sorry I'm betting on forests relegation this season
Gonna make bank I reckon
@@crisscrosscruz2034 I think you just lost your stake.
Me /
@@crisscrosscruz2034they mathematically can't get relegated anymore
The streets are calling, mate
@@crisscrosscruz2034 You are now in debt, enjoy
As a Liverpool fan, I'm more worried about Forest than I am Arsenal. Nuno has got them playing some brilliant football. Chris Wood is a baller, and is a proper striker.
Regardless on the outcome I'm just so proud of the lads they have been playing like absolute kings. Will be a good match
Arsenal try to walk the ball into the net. Forest play on the break. Lots of examples of opposition being on edge of our box, and then 3-4 passes later they've just conceded - that's what happened at Anfield. I'll take a point next Tuesday, just to keep the Points tally ticking upwards - then we won't have to think about Liverpool again this season !!
Thats just delusion
We're a weirdly difficult matchup for Liverpool, I think. We're built to take advantage of teams that function best when they press high up the pitch, and Liverpool's attack has been winning matches by smothering defenders with pressure. Going to be fascinating to watch.
@jackmanley1473 A team goes through a patch of good form and people act like they're better than us.
I've been a Forest fan since the League One 2006/07 season days, but the past three years have felt like one of our fans has sucked off a genie in exchange for the secret recipe for success or something...
It's like every piece of our jigsaw puzzle has been shaken up in the box and magically assembled. Milenkovic and Anderson have been fantastic signings, and the injuries to Sangare and Danilo early in the season has forced us to play this style of football that sees us have less of the ball, but counter attack more effectively. Milenkovic's height is the PERFECT complement to Murillo's lack of it. Murillo's technical ability is the PERFECT match for Milenkovic's less technique-based approach. I also heard that Matz Sels has not had an error leading to a goal in over ten years of playing, and although the Premier League website states he was at fault for one this season, other websites say he still hasn't. You will NEVER see Sels play out from the back, which potentially surrenders possession, but also means we might hit you on the break more often. Wood is so clinical because we seemed to have taken Sean Dyche's approach to managing him: stop thinking Wood's a target man to hold up the ball or wrestle people off it. He's NOT. He's clinical, and he's a great header of the ball, and if you give him the service, he will score. They're not the same thing.
The job Steve Cooper did was nothing short of phenomenal. Nuno is carrying that mantle to perfection.
I sincerely hope we can get a European spot this season, because Nuno and the players deserve it.
It's really refreshing to see a team who doesn't care much about possession, yeah. Counterattacking teams have become my favorite ones to watch. Brentford is similar, like a mini-Forest but much more leaky defensively. Still, both are absolutely deadly on the counter. I guess it's also always why I rooted for Liverpool in title races as opposed to City, Arsenal or others
Regarding Sels not playing out from the back - that pass he pinged in to the path of the on running CHO in the Wolves game was a perfect example.
Better analysis than most pundits out there
Congratulations to Nottingham Forest I hope they qualify for the UCL next year. I hope they display their 2 UCL trophies like Aston Villa did this season.
Murillo had only played 13 senior games when we signed him. It's one thing for Napoli or City to be linked with him, but clubs like that rarely pull the trigger on players who have barely played senior football, let alone put them pretty much straight into the team.
Newcastle fan here. Forest are amazing this year. People keep saying 'they'll drop off' but it never seems to happen. You have to say it's at least partly Nuno...
People forget how good he was for wolves lol
15:42 more context to the man management. The team spend a lot of time together outside of training and matches.
Just the other week, Murillo and his wife had a gender reveal for their baby at the city ground. Teammates, family and friends were present
There is a real close knit feel to the squad, so I think this goes hand in hand with the other aspects of our resurgence
Stuff like that doesn't get spoken about enough in my opinion, is all well and good players having great talent, but when they have real connections, both to the club and to each other, it really goes the distance with how they perform as a squad
@@largestella7996 Exactly, can you imagine Ineos letting a Man U player do something like that at old trafford?
I wouldn’t be surprised if they finish above us (Arsenal). They look mor dangerous and a more coherent unit. Long May it continue, they have my backing.
It's worth mentioning that the players seem to get on really well off the pitch. I see quite a few of the players in a couple of local bars/cafes quite often at weekends just enjoying eachothers company. Stuff like that just adds to team morale and helps loads.
In the spirit of Ryuzaki
Day 15 of asking for an in-depth video on Bodø/Glimt, who just recently became champions for the 4th time in 5 years, and who only got promoted back to Eliteserien as recently as 2017
Furthermore, they now regularly compete in Europe, have kept their successful trainer Kjetil Knutsen, and are on course for a new modern stadium that will replace Aspmyra
I got here early now Alfie. I know you want this. Let me seduce you. Make this video happen 🔥
Cheers! 🇳🇴😎
Might also make a "What on Earth" video about Rosenborg and Lillestrøm too if he decide to take a tour in Norway. 😅
@JinZanmato Rosenborg definitely needs a "what on earth" video. Used to be the pride of Norwegian football, now most definitely in their banter era. And they have been for a long time
Looks like Rosenborg experience much of the same as Man United. Struggling to adapt and form an identity with a winning mentality after Nils Arne Eggen left (just as Man United after Ferguson).
Their chairman strike me as somewhat of a clown too.
Just the impression I got. But what do a humble Stabæk fan like me know what really going at Rosenborg? 😂
@JinZanmato 100%, Eggen brought Rosenborg as far as the QF in CL where they got beaten by Juventus. Their club history is rich and mighty.
No Norwegian club has reached the group stage of the CL since 2007. Reaching a CL QF is unimaginable. Bodø/Glimt reached the QF of the Conference League and only lost out to eventual winners Roma, but it's still the third highest tier of European Competition
Now they are way, way behind Bodø/Glimt and Molde, and I struggle to see what their coach is going for. But I'm not an RBK fan, so wtf do I know 🤷♂️
🎶 Is this the way to Barcelona,
Bayern Munich, Lazio, Roma,
Forest boys are taking over,
Champions league awaits for me 🎶
Is this the way with our Murillo,
Gibbs-White, Yatesy, and Danilo,
Nuno Espirito Santo
Champions League awaits for me
Love the futureflash of an elderly Ryan Yates at 7:08
As a Nottingham Forest fan, and a subscriber of 5-6 years, I thought the day would never come, and, if it did, I thought it would be us going either bankrupt or going to League One. May it continue, and perhaps another HITC Sevens video soon.
Either way it will be better than another Hull video
Hopefully for Forest and their fans, the club can be in a European spot when the season is done. Especially happy for Nuno getting some redemption in terms of his reputation
Missiemark🔥
"Jermaine Jenas, Harold Shipman, and the guy who invented traffic lights" is an absolutely mental list
And ibuprofen weirdly
Forgot the sausage roll Christmas songs singer
And brown sauce
And the guy who created AC Milan
To be fair to Taiwo, he only got 200 minutes in 15 games in the league. Of course there are probably reasons, why he isn't getting more, but with more regular minutes, I think he could find his form again.
I assume the same people who think our form isn't sustainable due to a lack of possession also think Southampton are going to climb the table soon due to their relatively high possession?
liverpool's hardest game of the season will be forest A welcome back 1979
They’re like a mini Abramovich Chelsea
BOURNMOUTH AND FOREST IN CHAMPS LEAGUE LETS GO BABY!
BOURNMOUTH will go to europa league
UCL
LIVERPOOL
NEWCASTLE
FOREST
CHELSEA
Europa league
ARSENAL
BOURNMOUTH
CITY
CONFRENCS LEAGUE
VILLA OR FULHAM
Suggestion: the stupidest statements ever made by premier league pundits.
I’m sure there are plenty of Michael Owen compilations out there already
@@Year8mandem fair, but other pundits have said stupid stuff, too.
You'd have to keep Michael Owen and Paul Merson out of the video just to make it fair, and to stop it running over into about 4 hours
Jamie Redknapp 'In his youth, Michael Owen was literally a greyhound'
Nah. It would be dominated by Gary Neville
Requesting a video on Union Omaha. Love the work Alfie
HITC SEVENS has made a video about the club I support. What a day to be alive.
been a fan since their first season back in the prem, i always hoped they did good this season like between 15th or 10th but damn they exceeded my expectations by light years
I'm going to be honest, I'd completely forgotten about the points deduction and just how mad their transfer business has been since they came up, because Forest isn't a club that I follow very closely and everything this season has been good vibes only. It's easy to root for Forest because of their illustrious history and because of how long they spent in the doldrums, and because it's refreshing to see any team upset the status quo at the top of the Prem, and I guess that's why they've felt like such a cool story even though they broke all the rules to get to this point. I dunno, I'm just chuffed for them.
And just from a footballing sense, it is extraordinary that this seems to have clicked into place so suddenly and so well, much like Chelsea's mad business and disparate parts finally gelling under Maresca. And it's more extraordinary that it's happening under a manager everyone said was washed after his failure at Spurs - although perhaps the problems currently faced by Postecoglu should be an indicator that it's actually a really tough job to get right.
I’m upset Santiago Giménez didn’t take forests offer in the summer, I wonder if he’s regretting his decision now that they are near the top of the table 🤦🏻♂️
The team I barracked for in the 80s is back bigger & better
As a Chelsea fan, I was gutted to see CHO leave. Nice to see him turn into a real threat on the LW once again, even after the injuries and the bad Leverkusen loan.
You could have got £50 million from him off Bayern a while back
@ don’t remind me 💀
He's finally getting his pace back as well
Great content!
Just FYI, it’s not Boly or Ward-Prowse who come off the bench to sure up when winning - it’s Morato and Yates/Doninguez (depending on who’s not starting)
Feels like the cadence is Yates starting when we need to have an extra defensive edge & Dominguez when we expect more possession.
Saved me typing this! Excellent video otherwise!
@@jackmanley1473 absolutely spot on! I think Dominguez also brings a bit more energy when we’re looking for all our counters too!
It’ll be interesting to see how that changes when we get Danilo back to 100% & Sanghare too (as well as any Jan signings)
Thank you, it always soothes my sanity when someone else has already offered a correction.
I am a little disappointed that Alfie didn't pick this up, his videos usually seem so well informed. He didn't even bring up that we can change formation halfway through a match and put a stranglehold on any oppositions attack.
(if we're winning).
Alfie- I meant to say (as a Leeds fan), well done to your lot for bringing it back to 3-3.
Please can you do a video on the 1983/84 cup semi final between forest and Anderlecht also been waiting for this video for a long time
Ahhh...the great Forest of Nottingham, the pools of Liver, and the ARSEnal.
.. the Man of Chester, the Ever the Ton, the L Sea, the Bio of Al, We the St. of Ham and Crystal Palace lol
well tbf, Arsenal was named after a Cannon arsenal
*edit, got the joke*
Scunthorpe
Gowan Yates, what a guy and brother-in-law
who?
Putting city in 6th in the thumbnail when they’re actually in 7th for dramatic effect. Love it
Here before the video jinxes Forest
I'm happy for Forest. I don't know how happy they want me to be, being a Toon fan, but I'm happy for them. Nuno's playing style seems to work really well with his players, and it's great to see the league get some back-to-basics football that actually *works*. They deserve to be where they are in the League and long may it continue.
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Day 5 of the Restart: There is a country called the East African Federation that does not, at time of writing, exist. It comprises Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. They're all footballing powerhouses, as we know. My premise is: what would a national team for the East African Federation look like? The ground rules are: you can't pick anyone who has played for another men's senior national team outside the eight listed countries. For example, Aaron Wan-Bissaka is eligible, as he's only ever played for England at U-20 and U-21 level, but the likes of Christopher Nkunku, Youri Tielemans, and Romelu Lukaku are off-limits for reasons I should hope are obvious. Ironically, back when I first started proposing this idea, Nkunku was eligible, as he had yet to be picked for the French senior team. The same is also true for Mike Tresor, who lit up the Belgian Pro League and broke the league record for assists in a single season, and who would have been eligible due to his Burundian and Rwandan heritage. He now plays for Burnley, if you're wondering just what this team's dealing with. =]
And this my friend is why Forest and Newcastle fans like each other..Good luck bro, I hope we both get into the CL next season, more real fans in those home stadiums than most of the tourist clubs of the so called big 6, both Forest and Newcastle deserve it more than most
Good player Wood, always rated him, never got a chance at Newcastle but always thought with the right players around him he is a really good CF.
I’ve been waiting for this video for the last 3 or 4 weeks as a massive forest fan and a huge fan of this channel thanks for making this video!
I really do appreciate the way that Forest plays because I think it's a lot of what I feel has been missing. Forest aren't a passing team, they're aren't going to carve you up with fast intricate passing. No, they're gonna defend, and then carve you up on the break with their quicker players. They've realized that they don't necessarily have the players for possession style, so they don't play possession style--I think a lot of teams try to play possession style, because they know it works, but it works because you have the players to facilitate it.
I think a lot of coaches build a system and then fit players into that system, and less coaches build a system out of the players.
yep. Southampton are the polar opposite of Forest lol. They are like an even worse Norwich, playing possession football as one of the worst teams in the division, failing badly, and inevitably going straight back down
They are doing quite well. Happy for Elanga
With Nuno getting his wish of a full pre-season, the club conducted a reset and a comprehensive evaluation across every sector and department. This has proved crucial not only for the first team but also for the women's team, who have adopted a hybrid fully professional model, even as a tier three side. Another important factor was the construction of a new gym and medical centre, which includes recovery and relaxation areas at the renovated training ground at the NDA (Nigel Doughty Academy)
The women's team has its own base at the former training centre at Holme Road, which has also been fully renovated.
Alfie can we Please address what the hell is going on at AC Milan
Or AS Roma even
They just won a trophy and a couple wins from a champions league spot
Ac milan are always suck in the league. They're no juventus who has always conquered the league in Italy. Heck, even Inter are better in terms of league records.
I mean it's not hard to imagine that a bunch of guys from Nottingham would break all the rules imaginable and be investigated perhaps by authorities... and also be incredibly successful
😊
Wolves should have never got rid of Nuno. We finished 7th twice and then, in the Covid season finished 13th, and they sacked him. We'd never finished higher that 13th in the PL before Nuno and have only managed it once since.
'jermaine jenas, harold shipman, and the bloke that invented traffic lights'
what a midfield tho.
10:32 ”And this is in a league that contains Sean Dyche’s Everton”
Aht, aht, aht, not anymore Alfie.
Not a jab! but just a note that Murillo is pronounced will an ‘ill’ like in quill - as ll = y is the spanish pronunciation, not the Portuguese one. Fantastic video!
Cheers Alfie mate. Bloody brilliant vid, well researched ❤
COYR x FTID
Edit.
Earned yourself a sub
Also, Forest have few left-footed players. Murillo as the LCB, and Alex Moreno on loan from Villa as the left back are two I can think of, but often Neco Williams and Ola Aina play as full backs, and they are both primarily right footed. Similarly on the wings, Elanga, Hudson-Odoi, Sosa... all primarily right-footed. This is in an era where clubs often insist to have left footed leftbacks and right wingers, and opposite for the other sides, so credit to them for making it work regardless
by the way, I know that because I have a long-running FM save as Forest (with the squad from last season)
Cool with Forest this year. I was a little afraid last year after all their transfer dealings, that they could take a "Q.P.R" ... (Not on the level QPR fell through of course hehe) But surviving that difficult 1st season and giving them the gift of summer and time, seems to have made all the difference ... And Forest belong in the top league along side Leeds and Sheff Wed (In my 50 year old brains meaning :)
From sitting in the lower bridgeford watching yeovil knock us out the play offs spectacularly, to seeing us tear teams apart in the premier, has me thinking I am in some sort of dream 😅
I was there at that one too. It's insane, I remember how toxic the atmosphere turned. Wasn't it a 2-4 loss to Yeovil or something similar?
The thing is this Premier League season in general has been kinda bonkers. Bournmouth are in theory also Champions League contenders being only 3 points off the spots, Aston Villa are still up there also being 4 points off. (Also Newcastle are up there as well though given their owned by the Saudi's that's not really as big a deal as would of been before).
Meanwhile Tottenham and Manchester United both find themselves in the bottom half of the table, with both sides closer to the relegation spots than to the Champions League. (It probably won't happen BUT can you imagine if one of those two went down, the humorous disaster it would be).
SPurs, Man Utds AND Man City all having poor seasons is a major reason for Forest's success this season. And I say that as a Forest fan. Although I think that Man City will have a much better 2nd half of the season, I can't see Spurs or United overtaking us now. I think that we are odd on for Top 7.....but cannot see us finishing Top 3, I'm afraid.
@@rjw4762 yep, if Liverpool also weren't as good as they are, you'd basically have the condition for the 15/16 Leicester season once again, where all the top teams underperformed and Leicester won with 81 points, which isn't a lot
Nottingham Forest are on the road back to glory!
I thought this day would never come 😂
Nottingham Forest have been incredible this season. Hope they can keep up the good form.
I miss Danilo so much
Nuno is a very good coach and this basically guarantees him another top job with the caveat of a few signings making this a top job like what Emery did at Villa. Can't wait to see how it ends up.
Boly? you obviously don't know what you're talking about, Morato is the 1 who comes on and closes the game.
I had no idea, what the club have done is not the fans fault I am chuffed to bits for their fans, getting into that position after just having been promoted is seriously impressive.
This sounds like a video where we are being complimented, albeit backhandedly and almost somewhat like a slander piece because we do things differently on and off the pitch to the majority of teams who are now crying because we did it, they didn't and it worked
I thought it is a well balanced video, as it doesn't come from someone wearing Garibaldi tinted goggles. It explains what we did and why in the first season and earnestly compliments the club on and off the field. It also puts our success this season in context, stat-wise. Not many channels will put out such a lengthy piece that goes past the surface of Forest.
3rd European Cup is on!!!!
Alfie im portuguese.
Try to say espirito as
Esh-spirit(like spirit in english)-too
Considering Forest isn't your club, that's pretty impressive knowledge!... As a Forest fan though, if I was to be picky, I'd perhaps have made more of the fact that we were league one bound, bottom of the championship hence the state of the squad, we also only breached rules as we didn't want to sell Brennen Johnson at the beginning of the window (PSR cut off which is mental) for £30,000,000 to Brentford when we knew we could get more for him (just basic good business sense) towards the end of the window. So ultimately still at fault but it wasn't as cynical a breach as you make it sound..... Also.... We play good football but shuuuush 🤫 don't tell anyone, we like all the negative media to keep ignoring the details 😉;we are lethal and attacking! Yes, I said it, attacking! 😆 None of this passing around for the sake of possession with no threat in front of your own keeper. You show me a team that when it has the ball looks more deadly and with attacking intent that Forest!
Great video!
Damn the Sean Dyche stray was unexpected but I’m here for it 🤣
honestly as a strasbourg fan i still don't understand why we sold sels for so cheap he was a really good goalkeeper for years maybe too good for us but men seeing him doing so well make me happy but at the same time kinda sad cause his departure and some other strated the blue and co ownership just hope he can keep his current form cause i think he was underated and at least he manage to leave the ship before it sunk
16:26 not mentioned in this segment is Morato, he basically kills games when he's brought on, absolute wall of a centre back
Day 13
Best 7 Norwegian players in premier league excluding Haaland and Ødegaard(too predictable)
Nottingham Forest is such a refreshing team in Premier league. Always love a good underdog story and someone else other then the normal, filthy rich clubs making it. 😁
24 views in a minute this isn’t the mr beast levels you’ve built yourself up to have Alfie tut tut tut
Who cares, Mr Beast is a fraud lol
If we make it into the CL that’s a massive win. I don’t think there is a title race anymore, Liverpool are too strong.
This has been the best gamble ever. We are safe by new year.
It is cool that they are doing good, however over the last two years they have have ranked exceptionally high in players brought in and expenditures in the Premier League, for a team new to the league. They spent one place less than City, and in added players they are one place below Chelsea. (in terms of ranking in the prem over past 2 seasons). So basically they are a special case for a reason. Credit to the player's and lower staff's performance of course
I love the tricky trees! I got paid money to test out a football game before I knew anything about the league and chose the club due to age and the fact I didn't know the place Robin hood came from was real. I should've stuck with them when i started watching the premier league but thought they'd be relegated last year
The question becomes whether or not taking the risk of breaching PSR was worth it to keep Forrest up rather than joining the remaining yo-yo clubs like Sheffield United, Southampton, Burnley, Leeds and the others that may fall into this category. European football seems to indicate that it was a worthwhile gamble. And while the Europa League may certainly be more winnable, current form may see them in the Champions League next season and that’s where the biggest money is going to be.
Fingers in ears "nah, nah, nah, nah, nah". Notts County fan here.
How is Chris Donkey Wood in the top 20 players in the top 5 leagues for combined goals and assists?
Shenanigans!!!
How is mcgoldrick still playing in a zimmer frame...give it a break and leave this to the bigger boys😂. Good luck in the rest of the season
@andrewmoore8432 he's the same age as Messi and Suarez and Messi just scored 3 and made 2 in a single World Cup qualifying game.
County fan calling anyone a donkey is hilarious, your best striker in decades can't cut it at Millwall ffs
@@paulberry2884 what a clown 🤣
@@paulberry2884 your comparing him to Messi and Suarez 🤣
I seem to remember back in 2023 a certain UA-camr using a Chris Wood premier league hat trick as an analogy for an extremely unlikely event about 2 weeks before the Newcastle game…
Murilo was a player from Corinthians, the team that I support here in Brazil, he came from our youth ranks and he was amazing for us, such a solid and brave defender, I still don't believe we sold him for almost nothing.
Corinthians seem to do this a lot... Marquinhos was the same (not at his best but had many good years), sold for peanuts
What a player and comes across as a lovely lad too
The only thing Forest should worry is the drop of form after a good results during the middle part of the season
Day 10 of asking for a video of the 7 greatest non-league players of all time.
EDIT: Would the 7 greatest lower league players of all time make a slightly better video instead? Much like the one Alfie made about the 7 biggest lower league clubs a few days ago?
Arsenal fan here, but have a soft spot for Forest, too young for the Brian Clough era but the achievements of that great team will never be matched.
I hope they get CL, would be great to see them display those two iconic European cups like Villa do this season 😄
i'm hardly watching football nowdwys, its just way to much of it nowdays, its overwhelming to keep track of it, but been a subscriber of hitc7 since 2018 so this might be my only source of news in football i depth nowdays
Great video. Forest are flying... but Leicester... they are not. Spent so much on players and wages and got found guilty of breaking the rules.
If it weren't for how bad the promoted teams were last season, they'd be heading towards League 1 by now with spiralling debt.
I don't think Forrest's success is truly sustainable but its good to see someone different up there having success & hopefully they return to Europe next year. It also highlights how football is cyclical, Forrest play a 2024 brand of 2010 Stoke football. A close knit team, that plays simple football with hard working physical players that will outwork and out fight you. Then you keep the ball out of you net at all costs and be clinical at set pieces.
Will be interesting what happens with Chris Wood if a Big 4 team gets an injury in the next few weeks, they could put Forrest in a difficult situation with a £10 - £15 mil offer. Clearly he's playing the best football of his career at the moment that short term should be mildly sustainable. Do they risk him leaving for free in the summer to keep this going or try to cash in on a 33 year old striker in the last 6 months of his contract having a career season. it would be hard to then hold back a total pros pro from having that move at 33 where this would be his only chance to ever go to a club like that even if it was on an 18 month contact where he knows he will be a short term fill in and then bench player
Forest lowkey had some decent players, but they needed some time to put it all together. When they got promoted they lost almost all the squad and had to start over. But I had faith that some signings like Gibbs-White would end up paying dividends.
Been hoping you'd make a video on us
All Forrest done was look at the risk/reward when it comes to breaching PSR. Took a short term hit for long term gain it's a trick as old as time.
Basically I want to slag of everything that Forest have done and I hate it and I can't understand why they are there but I have to comment on about it for views with my shit voice ....
Appreciate the work involved in putting this together but feck me you just bored me to death ...
Nuno espirito santos also won saudi pro league title and saudi cup which alfie didn't mention
Never thought we would make it onto this series 😂
There is a feel of Leicester in Notts Forest this season
I feel like how Nottingham Forrest play is the same way I play FIFA 😂
Don’t forget to mention how many international goals he’s banged in recently, age = experience
Day 1: Footballers whose nicknames became a stick to beat them with.
Example:
Joe Allen - The Welsh Xavi
Francis Jeffers - Fox in the box
The start makes it sound like NF doesn’t want to win the league but start a league.
This man's uploading schedule is that consistent it should be investigated
Just turned 40 yet it feels like the 90s again.
I'm waiting for Blackburn to win the league with a Sutton/Shearer regen partnership.