This was the day that Arne Slot found out the Premier League is not all fun and games, as Liverpool and their manager were outwitted by Nuno Espírito Santo and Nottingham Forest. The winger Callum Hudson-Odoi came off the bench to inflict the first defeat of the Dutchman’s Anfield tenure with a trademark goal.
Everything Nuno did worked, from his tactics to team selection and substitutions. His gritty side followed their manager’s instructions to the letter to keep Liverpool at bay for 90 minutes and conjured up numerous counterattacks, with Hudson-Odoi eventually finishing one to earn the points after coming off the bench to give Forest their first win at Anfield since 1969 – 20,300 days and 27 trips here had passed in the meantime. It had been a long wait and their corner of fans celebrated it in such a fashion.
