When Nuno Espirito Santo took over from Simon Cooper in December 2023, Nottingham Forest were seriously flirting with the relegation to the EFL Championship.By the end of the 2023-24 season, the Tricky Trees collected 32 points altogether, which was enough for the 17th place, the one just above the relegation zone.Forest owner launches a shameful on-pitch tirade at Nuno Espirito SantoThat’s how Nottingham Forest stayed in the English top division, and no one probably expected to see them much higher this season. Alas, Espirito Santo had other plans, definitely, as the Tricky Trees were in the Top 3 for quite some time. They had been punching high above their weight until recently when the form dropped almost instantly and now – ahead of the final matchday of the season – Forest are currently seventh with 65 points.While people are always looking for way out of forest, Forest are on their way out of Champions LeagueThis means that they’ve doubled their last season’s result in terms of points, which has never happened before to any Premier League side since establishing the current format back in 1992.The only one close to that feat was that memorable Leicester City squad under Claudio Ranieri’s tutelage, after going from 41 points in the 2014-15 season to 81 in the following one, which ended in their shocking EPL triumph.##NAJAVA_MECA_8938097##Forest will face Chelsea in the last match of the season at the City Ground in what could be a crucial battle for a place in the Champions League next season. Even if they fail in that task, they have a guaranteed place in the Europa Conference League and even maybe the Europa League, which is also within their reach.History has been written at City Ground, and Nuno Espirito Santo deserves almost all the credit for it.
