Pretty pleased that wasn't as dramatic as our last encounter with Forest at Carrow Road (still pisses me off to this day that I had to leave in the 85th minute of that one due to work) but it still wasn't nearly as comfortable as I would've liked, or expected it to be at half-time. No doubts though that we deserved the victory, and I'm always happy to get 3 points, particularly when it puts us clear at the top of the Championship.
I don't know what it is particularly about this season, but it feels like every game we're having to work really hard to score a goal or win the game. Obviously in the last promotion season we were rolling a lot of teams over and often games felt like they were done by half-time. I don't know if it's because we're playing a bit more pragmatically this season, or whether just the general quality of the league has gone up. But even Forest, a side who were in poor form before today and overall didn't look like a great team, made it difficult for us.
It was fantastic to have the return of some of the injured players. Todd played well once he came on and obviously assisted the winning goal. I know it took a huge deflection (which balanced out the luck of the game seeing as Forest's goal came from a cross that happened to loop all the way in) but it's brilliant to see Emi contributing key goals on a regular basis, something that he really needed to add to his game. Man of the match is difficult but I don't think anyone stood out as being absolutely superb. Skipp was great as usual and especially in the first half Sorenson provided some nice moments, I'd probably go with either Buendia or Aarons though.
A tricky run now. The next 4 games consist of Blackburn (10th),Reading (5th) and Watford (3rd) all away, as well as Cardiff (9th) at home. All those sides are in good form so this is going to be a real test of our credentials. If we can come out of that mini-run still top of the league then we really out set up to repeat our title-winning season of a couple of years ago.