What Nottingham Forest players did in Anfield dressing room to rub salt in Liverpool wounds
After you win at an away ground for the first time in more than 55 years, you have every right to celebrate - and how the Nottingham Forest team partied after claiming a famous victory at Liverpool.
Substitute Callum Hudson-Odoi was the goal hero for the Reds, but in truth it was a brilliant team effort expertly orchestrated by head coach Nuno Espirito Santo.
Victory ensured Forest remained unbeaten four games into the new season and moved up to a heady fourth place in the Premier League table - while also claiming their first win at Anfield since February 1969.
It also ended the Arne Slot’s honeymoon period as the new Liverpool head coach. But the final rubbing of salt into the Slot wounds came as he walked past a Forest dressing room pounding to the sort of music usually reserved for the dancefloors of Ibiza.
Paul Gorst, Liverpool correspondent of our sister website the Echo, wrote: “The press rooms and post-match mixed zone were all shaking as the tunes rattled around the area reserved for the jubilant visitors. ‘They’re having a right old party in there,” revealed one member of the Anfield staff’, and it was hard to blame them too as they ended a 55-year wait for a win here.
“Fortress Anfield? Sadly, it was party central for Forest…”
Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo was understandably delighted with the result, especially as the club had taken just five points from their previous 25 visits to Anfield.
“Many of our fans today in the stadium were not even born (the last time they won) so that says how hard it is,” he said.
“I’m very happy and proud of the work of the players, they worked very hard. Overall, we knew how hard the game was going to be. It is all about taking your chances.”