Match report: Nottingham Forest 0-0 Arsenal
Premier League: A point extended Arsenal’s overnight lead at the top of the table to seven points but Mikel Arteta was left in funk when his side were denied what he felt was “a clear penalty” for an Ola Aina handball. Read Peter Lansley’s match report from the City Ground …
Sean Dyche: "To get a clean sheet is amazing"
“It’s not easy playing these sides, the commitment is different,” says the Forest boss. “There’s the commitment to score a goal of course, but what about the commitment to the shape, the basics, the hard yards of the game? And I thought we did that fantastically well as a group.
“They still had a couple of chances but listen they’re a top side and they’re flying. But to get a clean sheet against them is amazing. We had a couple of chances ourselves but it’s hard to open them up, as they’ve shown all season.”
On Matz Sels’ super save from Saka: “I’m pleased for him. There’s a lot of noise on their set-pieces and I thought he did well and that as well. The whole group did. But that’s a great save, I think it comes over Merino’s head, he sees it late. That was a good spring and he gets his fingertips to it. That was a big moment of course, but we had a big moment ourselves.”
