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Jeff Stelling makes Nuno point amid surprise Nottingham Forest claim
Nottingham Forest have been tipped to achieve a 30-year high come the end of the current Premier League season.
The Reds have defied the odds and several pundits to shrug off their relegation struggles of the last couple of seasons to ride high 10 games into the current top-flight campaign.
They are third going into Sunday’s 2pm City Ground kick-off against Newcastle United, when they will be seeking to win a fourth game on the spin.
And Jeff Stelling, the former Soccer Saturday host now working as a pundit for TalkSPORT, believes it is form that Forest can carry with them through the season - ending up in one of the European qualification places.
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Assessing the Reds’ start to their third season back in the Premier League, Stelling backed them to emulate the 1995/96 Reds team under European Cup-winner Frank Clark that reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup before losing to Bayern Munich.
He told TalkSPORT listeners: “My prediction is that Forest will end up in a European place this season, whether that's for finishing sixth or seventh. I think it's so open in that chase for European spots.
“The points they've got on the board now, the quality of their starting 11, the strength and depth they have… it makes me think Forest have got what it takes to finish sixth or seventh.
“Elliot Anderson [a summer recruit from Newcastle] couldn't get a start at the weekend, and he's been brilliant.
“So that's my prediction, and it might be top seven because it depends how things pan out at the end of the season, so I think sixth or seventh.”
Stelling also referenced the work that Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo has done since replacing Steve Cooper as Forest boss last season, saying: “Nuno did that [qualify for European football] when he was at Wolves.” In fact, Wolves finished seventh twice under Nuno, but it didn't lead to qualification the second time.
