At Anfield, Nottingham Forest’s performance on Saturday against Liverpool was based on a strong rearguard.
Callum Hudson-Odoi’s strike gave the Reds a 1-0 victory, and Forest has won all four of their Premier League games thus far.
Through this seminar, Nuno Espirito Santo disproved his doubters once and for all. He developed a strategy that was practical.
You wouldn’t be dissatisfied with the person selected for Man of the Match if you included a lot of players from the Saturday match in the mix.
The players have handed the head coach a major dilemma ahead of the trip south as Forest prepares to take on Brighton this coming weekend.
Ian Wright absolutely loves one Nottingham Forest star
The pundit was waxing lyrical about the Reds this week after Forest produced the performance of the day in the Premier League.
One player who is a seriously big fan of is Murillo – and it’s fair to say that he’s not the only one.
Forest fended interest for Murillo in the summer, with Inter Milan the latest club to be monitoring the performances of the centre-back.
Wright thought he was brilliant at the weekend and made a sizeable claim about the 22-year-old talent.
The ex-Forest loanee told Wrighty’s House podcast: “He’s getting to be one of my favourite players to watch, Murillo at the back for Forest. He’s so good, he’s so good on the ball, his passing out of defence is so good.”
Murillo will benefit from another season with Forest
It could have been easy for Forest to sell Murillo in the summer but ultimately nobody came forward with his valuation.
As a result, the player has remained at Forest and instead of kicking up a fuss, he’s been keen to start this season where he picked up last time around.
Murillo is an extremely talented player and given that Forest landed him for £10.6 million, they’re clearly going to make a profit on him.
| Team | MP | W | D | L | GD | Pts | |
| 5 |  Aston Villa |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| 6 |  Brighton |
4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 7 |  Nottm Forest |
4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 8 |  Chelsea |
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 9 |  Brentford |
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
At 22, the world really is his oyster. Top clubs have been linked with him and it will be fascinating to see where he does end up when the time comes to move on.
Had Murillo departed this summer he might have gone to a club that didn’t necessarily view him as a first choice and that would have stunted his progress.
At Forest, he will play regularly and with another year under his belt in the Premier League he should be able to command regular action when the time does come to leave.
