Forest moved up to third in the Premier League table with a 2-1 win at Tottenham on Monday (21.04.25) and the coach says his team are relishing the pressure of trying to end an excellent campaign with a return to Europe's elite competition.

Nuno - who has also guided the club to an FA Cup semi-final against Manchester City this weekend - said: "First of all we have to realise that we are in a fight that no one expected, us included, and it’s normal, but I don’t want to prove nobody wrong.

"It’s about us. We have a big desire to compete and the players enjoy. We are in the mix against big teams and that can only make us proud.

"We embrace the challenge. We are ahead of a big week for us, we’re going to Wembley to compete against a big team and there are a lot of games ahead of us. As long as we keep this approach, competing well, you never know."

Forest raced into a two-goal lead before surviving late Tottenham pressure to close out the victory and Nuno was impressed with all facets of his team's display.

The Portuguese manager said: “Of course the final minutes were full of anxiety, wishing the time to go faster and Tottenham put us against the ropes.

"We are very proud of the way we competed.

"I think the team competed well at the start of the game, we achieve goals and we were dominant even without the ball to try to contain Tottenham.

"Even though they had chances, we had Mats (Sels) again at a high level, the clearance from Harry Toffolo, but spirit is about that.”