Nottingham Forest’s fluid and direct forwards were destructive at St Mary’s and could be the difference between mid-table and a relegation battle.
Anthony Elanga and Callum Hudson-Odoi were superb in staying wide and running at defenders to get them on the back foot.
Chris Wood constantly eluded his three centre backs and should have come away with a goal.
Then there’s the orchestrator-in-chief, Morgan Gibbs-White — the goalscorer and focal point for a lot of what makes Forest tick in attack.
Forest were simply too hot to handle for Southampton.
Morgan Gibbs-White scored the only goal as Nottingham Forest won 1-0 at Southampton
Anthony Elanga (centre) was one of Forest’s top performers at St Mary’s on Saturday afternoon
‘We don’t possess the individual quality at the top end that they do, and that was the big difference,’ admitted Saints boss Russell Martin.
Forest profited from Saints’ sloppy turnovers and kept the hosts under pressure.
They countered at pace, got forward in numbers, and should have won by a bigger margin after registering 23 shots.
