Chris Wood moves ahead of Erling Haaland in unique attacking metric as excellent Nottingham Forest run continues

Chris Wood continued his incredible start to the Premier League season with a double in a 3-1 win over Leicester.

nottingham forest The striker was breathing fire from his side leicester city On Friday night, scoring a second-half brace in the space of 13 minutes.

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Wood, along with Forest captain Ryan Yates, were at the forefront of scoring their fourth win in the Premier League this season.

Only cole palmer And erling holland Has scored more goals than Wood since Nuno Espirito Santo took charge at Forest.

“It’s that consistency that Nuno has been working on. We got better and better last season, but we also conceded a lot of bad goals,” Wood said. Sky Sports.

“I think consistency is the biggest thing. I wouldn’t say it energizes us, we have accepted a lot of set goals and we have worked on that and we have to keep moving forward.”

Espirito Santo’s side now hold Forest’s longest unbeaten streak in the English top-flight since 1995.

They have also won back-to-back top-flight games for the first time since December 2023 and are fifth in the Premier League table, their highest league position of the century so far.

Having played an extra game from those around them, Forest are just one point behind armory And Aston Villa,

Wood has scored 60% of Forest’s goals in the Premier League this season, and has netted seven of his team’s 11 goals.

Only Liam Delap ipswich town (66.7%) has contributed to more individual team goals than Forest’s number 11.

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Haaland has scored more than half of Manchester City’s goals this season (52.6%), with Brian Mbuemo (42.9%) and Jean-Philippe Mateta (40%) also topping the list.

Wood was also asked by Sky Sports about Haaland and the role of being a ‘big centre-forward’.

“We have to try to get it back or I’ll lose my job!” He said. “For a while, small center forwards with very fast pace were used but thankfully Erling has brought it back.”

“I just want to continue to score as much as possible. He (Haaland) is a very powerful man and he is probably going to score 30 goals this season. He is a very powerful man to chase.

“He (Nuno Espirito Santo) came and insisted on putting the ball in the box. He has worked on it on the training pitch.”

Leicester fans were critical of their team at The King Power Stadium as they finished 14th with nine points from nine games.

Forest fans certainly made the most of the win over former manager Steve Cooper’s team, as they chanted his name throughout.

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And the two-time European Cup winners will be able to dream of competing on football’s grandest stage once again.