Nottingham Forest gave the young supporters a chance to see the club’s stars in action on Tuesday as the club held an open training session at the City Ground.
Several thousands of fans attended with the lower tier of The Brian Clough Stand packed to the rafters with supporters.
It was a great chance for Forest fans who might not have been blessed to get many tickets to matches to see their heroes in action.
Nuno Espirito Santo was overseeing the session with his coaches also in attendance to put the players through their paces.
With the session providing a good chance for supporters to applaud the players for a positive start to the season we looked at three things that we spotted from the session.
Three things spotted from Nottingham Forest’s open training session at the City Ground
Neco Williams scores great goal
Well, he doesn’t score many like this or should we say, he doesn’t score many like this for Forest – although his goals for Wales have sometimes been akin to this.
With Chris Wood in fine form, Forest are reliant on his goals. As a result, it would be nice as the season progresses if some other players could weigh in with some goals too.
Williams hasn’t been the first choice for the Reds this season and is having to fulfill a role as an impact substitute on Trentside at the moment.
If he keeps banging in goals like this one, however, perhaps Espirito Santo has something to ponder in terms of giving him some minutes further up the pitch.
Elliot Anderson omitted – but there’s no panic
One player who wasn’t taking part during the open training session was Anderson – but there is no need for supporters to panic.
Sky claimed that Anderson was merely taking part in a recovery session back at the training ground and seemingly confirmed that he wasn’t injured.
Morgan Gibbs-White was on Trentside in the training gear yesterday, although he didn’t take part in the session with the rest of the players.
That is a small worry for Espirito Santo ahead of Saturday’s game with West Ham and hopefully both players can be available for the visit of the Hammers.
Jota Silva trains like he plays
Watching the Portuguese performer train was just mesmerising on Tuesday at the City Ground.
Although he’s not started a game under Espirito Santo just yet, he’s clearly leaving no stone unturned with his efforts in training.
Silva was absolutely dynamite during the training match at the end of the session and was all over the smaller pitch that had been marked out.
The versatile attacker was everywhere and gave his teammates a torrid time who were trying to get the ball off of him.
Silva is knocking firmly on Espirito Santo’s door and it will be fascinating to see when he does get that maiden chance to start.
Three things we spotted from Nottingham Forest’s open training session
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