{"id":660764,"date":"2026-05-10T19:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660764\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:32:08","slug":"nottingham-forest-elliot-anderson-character-shown-after-mums-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660764\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest: Elliot Anderson character shown after mum’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anderson returned from the north east of England to face Newcastle<\/a> following his mum’s funeral on Friday, a day after Forest’s Europa League semi-final exit to Aston Villa<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He had already scored in the 5-0 win at Sunderland last month<\/a> as he continues to produce for Forest.<\/p>\n

“It did [mean a lot] – a few things going on recently, so it felt really nice,” he told Sky Sports. <\/p>\n

“We’ve made a U-turn and done really well. The manager is brilliant and we’re all behind him. It was a tough game in midweek but as the manager said, this group is full of fighters. <\/p>\n

“Four managers has not been easy but we’ve all stuck together and fought for each other.”<\/p>\n

Manager Vitor Pereira praised the midfielder’s courage after his fourth goal of the season following an emotional week. <\/p>\n

“It’s difficult for me and I believe everybody can understand what he’s feeling inside,” he said. <\/p>\n

“But in the end I believe that he honours his mother, going on the pitch and running until the last breath. <\/p>\n

“I think he wants a lot to score a goal, and he believes until the end. He’s a very, very talented player but is a strong, strong character. If not, it’s not possible.”<\/p>\n

Anderson has become an England regular this season, earning seven caps, and is certain to go to the World Cup as one of Thomas Tuchel’s trusted players.<\/p>\n

Manchester United<\/a> and Manchester City<\/a> have him high on their wanted list this summer and Forest will struggle to keep him with no European football next season. <\/p>\n

“I don’t have the answer,” said Pereira when asked about Anderson’s future. <\/p>\n

“I know he deserves the top of the world. But he’s our player. We need to enjoy him. Sometimes I work with top, talented players, but to find a top player with this character is not easy. <\/p>\n

“I’m not thinking about next season. I’m thinking about finishing this season in the best position we can.”<\/p>\n

Forest are certain to make a huge profit on the 23-year-old, who cost \u00a335m when he moved from St James’ Park.<\/a><\/p>\n

“The unfortunate thing for Forest is that there is no way they can keep him this summer, he has been that good,” former Liverpool<\/a> midfielder Danny Murphy told Match of the Day. <\/p>\n

“He is going to start for England at the World Cup, and he is going to have loads of suitors – the only question is where he will end up, not whether he will leave.”<\/p>\n

The Europa League defeat against Villa hurt the squad and Anderson struggled to make an impact, having dominated Forest’s first-leg 1-0 win.<\/p>\n

It was their chance to end a 36-year silverware drought and reach a first major European final since the famous Brian Clough side managed successive European Cup wins in 1979 and 1980. <\/p>\n

The squad needed a result to bounce back and, trailing to Harvey Barnes’ goal, defeat loomed.<\/p>\n

But Anderson took his moment – just his fourth goal of the season – to rescue a point with two minutes left that edged Forest to the brink of Premier League survival, confirmed when Arsenal<\/a> beat West Ham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pereira added: “In the warm-up, my assistants, my staff said to me: ‘Elliot is on fire today – every time he took a shot on goal, he scored.’<\/p>\n

“The funeral of his mother was two days ago. He travelled to Newcastle<\/a>, came back and I do not have words to thank him. I believe that he wanted to honour his mother with a goal.<\/p>\n

“That’s why he tried until the last minute to score a goal because this is how he found a way to go on the pitch and give everything – to play for him and to play for her.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anderson returned from the north east of England to face Newcastle following his mum’s funeral on Friday, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-660764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}