Having walked off to a standing ovation, Morgan Gibbs-White faced a nervy final few minutes on the touchline.
By the end, he was crouched on the ground, waiting for the whistle to blow; waiting for confirmation that he had scored a Nottingham Forest winner. As soon as it came, he leapt up, embraced Jesse Lingard and joined his teammate in doing a little dance on the pitch before the pair ran off to join in the celebrations.
Gibbs-White was always Steve Cooper’s top target during the summer transfer window. The Reds splashed out an initial £25 million to secure his services from Wolverhampton Wanderers. And he is beginning to show why the head coach made clinching his signature such a priority.
