Chris Wooden has continued his unimaginable begin to the Premier League season with a double in a 3-1 win over Leicester.
The Nottingham Forest striker was on fireplace for his facet at Leicester Metropolis on Friday evening, netting a second-half brace inside 13 minutes.
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Wooden, together with Forest captain Ryan Yates, was on the forefront of his facet incomes their fourth victory within the Premier League this season.
Solely Cole Palmer and Erling Haaland have scored extra objectives than Wooden since Nuno Espírito Santo took over at Forest.
“It is consistency with what Nuno’s been engaged on. We bought higher and higher final season however we additionally conceded poor objectives at occasions,” Wooden stated, chatting with Sky Sports activities.
“I feel consistency is the largest factor. I would not say it fuelled us, we conceded lots of set-piece objectives and we labored at that and we have to maintain going.”
Espírito Santo’s facet now maintain Forest’s longest unbeaten away streak within the English top-flight since 1995.
They’ve additionally received back-to-back top-flight video games for the primary time since December 2023 and sit fifth within the Premier League desk, which is their highest-ever league place of the century.
Having performed one further sport than these round them, Forest are just one level behind Arsenal and Aston Villa.
Wooden has scored precisely 60% of Forest’s objectives within the Premier League this season, having bagged seven of his facet’s 11.
Solely Liam Delap of Ipswich City (66.7%) has contributed extra particular person group objectives than Forest’s quantity 11.
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Haaland has scored simply over half (52.6%) of Manchester Metropolis’s objectives this season with Bryan Mbuemo (42.9%) and Jean-Philippe Mateta (40%) additionally excessive on the listing.
Wooden was additionally requested by Sky Sports activities about Haaland and the position of being a ‘huge centre ahead’.
“We need to attempt to convey it again or I will be out of a job!” he stated. “For a time period, the small centre ahead with lots of tempo was used however fortunately Erling has introduced it again.”
“I simply need to hold scoring as many as I can. He is [Haaland] a really formidable man and he is most likely going to attain 30 objectives this season. He is a really formidable man to chase.
“He is [Nuno Espirito Santo] are available and put an emphasis on placing the ball within the field. He is labored on that within the coaching pitch.”
Leicester followers have been left booing their facet at The King Energy stadium as they remained in 14th place with 9 factors from 9 video games.
Forest followers actually made the a lot of the victory over former supervisor Steve Cooper’s facet, as they chanted his title at full-time.
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And the two-time European Cup winners could possibly dream of competing on soccer’s grandest stage as soon as once more.
