Nottingham Forest love having the “underdog mentality”, says former striker Robert Earnshaw.
Having misplaced their previous two Premier League video games, Forest halted the current slide with a properly earned level towards second-placed on Wednesday night time.
The outcome saved them third within the desk, one level above , and nonetheless on track for European soccer subsequent season.
“It was a wonderful draw, as a result of you have to have the larger context, the larger image. Nottingham Forest are combating for Champions League now and combating for the title,” Earnshaw instructed BBC Radio 5 Dwell Breakfast.
“They may give probabilities to the opposite workforce, however they love this underdog mentality.
“They type of play on the quick break slightly bit and transition the place they’re going to sit again after which simply hit you with their tempo and their ending. Chris Wooden had a few little moments [against Arsenal] the place you thought, ‘oh, that is it’.
“I used to be there for the sport just a few weeks in the past, on the Metropolis Floor, and also you at all times really feel like Forest can have the prospect. It is simply whether or not they can take it and, to be trustworthy, 9 instances out of ten, they take it. Final night time, it simply wasn’t to be.
“They may take that [point] and the Forest followers will take that. They perceive the place that they are in, they perceive the place Arsenal are.
“Any extra factors as they go in direction of the tip of the season now, it simply takes them additional and additional into that Champions League spot. It simply makes it stronger.”