Nottingham Forest legend Stuart Pearce feels the Reds go into their promotion showdown with Huddersfield Town as favourites and says the excitement bubbling round the City Ground is "quite incredible".
The former Forest left-back, captain and manager was among the Sky Sports pundits analysing today's game as both sides duke it out for a place in the Premier League at Wembley.
Promotion is said to be worth around £195m to the winners with Forest having had a remarkable charge to the Championship play-off final with Reds head coach Steve Cooper having taken over as Chris Hughton's successor with the club bottom of the table.
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Forest are now hunting their return to the top flight for the first time since 1999 and Pearce said: "I think the frightening thing is I was still playing last time they were playing in the Premier League.
"The excitement bubbling around the place is quite incredible and that can be dangerous coming into these big tournaments.
"Forest will go into it as favourites but that is quite worrying at times. This is an even and balanced game but for Forest fans to be here with the job Steve has done is quite incredible."
Fellow pundit Jobi McAnuff also praised the job Cooper has overseen at the City Ground but says the game against the Terriers is hard to predict.
"Stuart's already touched on it but to come from where they have; bottom of the table and looked in all sorts of trouble. They've become the best team in the league and the stats show that. Most wins, most points since Steve Cooper came in. It's such a tough one to call."
