Nottingham Forest 1 – 0 Arsenal (May-20-2023) Premier League Highlights
Short highlights from Nottingham Forest’s 1-0 win against Arsenal at The City Ground.
The City Ground, which usually resounds to Mull Of Kintyre, is now belting out Don’t You Want Me. When push came to shove, Forest somehow picked up ten points from their last five games. In the same period, starting with their visit to the Etihad on 26 April, Arsenal have collected six points from five matches (including a very good win at Newcastle).
Ian Little is back for more, expanding on his point about Saka and White. “We all love Saka, but he plays a lot and he’d run out of steam. It was a bit odd to see Arteta trying that overload [Saka and Partey, I presume] for so much of the game. There was no connection and no outlet.
“Happy for NF, though. Like Cooper and was glad to see the Greek stick with him. The silver lining in this petering out is that there is something from which to build.”
Today in brief. Forest sealed their survival, Arsenal completed their week from hell, City became champions without playing, Liverpool scraped a late equaliser, Man U won at Bournemouth, Spurs lost to Brentford, and Everton grabbed a late point at Wolves. Relegation is now a three-horse race for two places: Leeds and Leicester on the brink, Everton still in danger.
The crowd is a sea of bare arms. “It’s the best crowd in the league,” says Morgan Gibbs-White. “The best fans by a country mile.”
The cameras are following Forest’s delight, so I can’t tell you what the Arsenal players are up to. They’ve had their best season for years, by far, and it has still fizzled out into disappointment. But they’re young and gifted and they’ll surely be back.
“As an Arsenal fan,” says Kári Tulinius, “I’d like to congratulate Forest on probably doing enough to stay up, and thank you for finally putting me out of my misery.”
Steve Cooper is embracing his players one by one. And there are a lot of them: 33 used since Forest were promoted in the summer. He built one team last year, another this year, and both have surpassed themselves.
Saka wriggles into the box and goes down – too easily, in Anthony Taylor’s view.
“I figured you might want to know,” says Kári Tulinius, “that your commentary just got cited on-air by the excellent Finnish commentator Mikko Innanen, as to Tony Adams’ desire to get Smith-Rowe on the field.” Fame at last! But Tony is still waiting for that substitution, which shows how far Smith-Rowe’s stock has fallen.
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