Morgan Gibbs White gives perfect response to ‘sick taunts’ from Wolves fans about his girlfriend

Nottingham Forest goalscorer Morgan Gibbs-White speaking to Sky Sports: “Tonight was a tough one. We had a game plan, stuck to it. They caused us a lot of problems in the first half but we stuck to the game plan, knew what we had to do and got the job done.

“Credit to Matz Sels and Murillo they kept us in it in the first half. When we had chances we took them and that has been the difference with us this season. We have been clinical when we needed to be. We got the job done. We are really good at managing games now and credit to the boys. We are deservedly in the position we are in.”

On his goal celebration: “There is a lot of rivalry going on there with me and Wolves but that’s what makes football. It’s all love and banter. I take it that way anyway.”

On scoring in front of new England boss Thomas Tuchel: “I didn’t even know he was here. I’m just focused on club football at the minute. We will see what happens when March comes. I didn’t even know but now I know I’ve got a smile on my face.”

What’s on the mind: “We are taking each training session and each opponent as it comes. There is a lot of belief in the group, there is a lot of belief in the fans. There is high expectation from the fans and that’s what strives us on. We have to take it game by game and see where it gets us.”

On how fun it would be to bring Champions League football to the City Ground: “It would be absolutely incredible. There will be a few fans who might be able to experience it twice. To be able to give them that opportunity again is what we really want to do as a club. The owner believes in it, we believe in it. We just have to take it game by game and not get ahead of ourselves. stay calm and stay humble.”

Nottingham Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo speaking to Sky Sports: “It feels good. We work very hard to achieve what we have. Today was a tough game. Wolves had chances and Matz Sels was amazing to keep us in the game. I’m really proud of the work ethic of the players and the desire to go in front and score.”

On whether the secret to success is as simple as ‘staying humble’: “It’s a very tough competition. We are always going to face tough opponents. We need to stay humble. We haven’t achieved anything yet, we need to work until the end and this can lead us to good moments.”

On Morgan Gibbs-White and Thomas Tuchel being in attendance: “We have a lot of players that play for their national teams. Morgan is one of them. This ambition to play for their national teams only makes a player better. I tell them to want this but to achieve this you have to work very well within your club so the national team coaches can see you and take advantage.”

On what his ambition with the team is now: “My ambition is always the same. As coaching staff we have this natural ambition of improving the players, this is what we are obsessed with. If we improve the players than the team will improve and if the team improves than the club will improve and the city will be happy.”

On the penalty decision that didn’t go their way in the first-half: “I didn’t see the images but they checked it. Let’s not get into that.”

Nuno speaking to BBC Sport: “We played good. We were organised and we had the luck of scoring really early, that settles us down. Wolves reacted well and Matz Sels was very good for us today to keep us in the game but overall it was a good performance.”

On the confidence in the side: “We are OK. The performance and the results help with confidence – you saw Callum Hudson-Odoi today and Anthony Elanga they were confident and creating many problems. This is what we want to see from our players, to feel good on the pitch and to work hard. But before Liverpool we have Luton and we have to think about the FA Cup.”

On Brian Clough and his legacy: “We see it all over the place. It is at our stadium, at our training ground – images of Brian – he is a legend of the club.”

Nottingham Forest striker Chris Wood: “It’s about consistency, and doing what we’ve been doing well already this season, not letting up. We need to keep doing what we’ve been doing and what has been so good in the first 19 games.”

On Taiwo Awoniyi: “He’s a big part of us. A fantastic player, that’s what he wants and he deserves it for all the work he puts in on and off the pitch.”

On Morgan Gibbs-White: “He gets a lot of stick, particularly here at Wolves, and that’s the best way to fight back. Scoring goals and that’s what he does.”

On Nuno Espirito Santo: “Confidence, belief, responsibility in a team that works to all our strengths. We tweak every week, it’s not the same every week and he’s done superbly well since he’s come in.

“Luton on Saturday then we can focus on Liverpool.”

On the title: “Well and truly way too early to talk about that. Not thinking anything like that.”

Wolves manager Vitor Pereira speaking to Sky Sports: “To play against a team like Nottingham Forest – they are a strong team, physically and we feel this on the pitch. They are very fast on the counter-attack. We had chances to score the first goal and at 1-1 and it may have been different if it was like this. With this team, every time we don’t have the balance to stop the counter-attack, they created problems. In the mistakes that we committed, they scored.”

On conceding the second goal: “Before the second goal we had chances to equalise. We have a small squad and this week we have a lot problems. We tried everything. I am proud of my players but it was not possible today.”

On whether they need to add players in the January transfer window: “We need to. Not too much but we need at least two or three players to balance the squad and balance the team.”

On the amount of chances his side created: “We need to give the merit to the goalkeeper because the goalkeeper of Nottingham Forest today made some fantastic saves.”

On whether he is happy with the progress within the squad: “I am very happy with my players. If we have everyone with conditions to play then it is a different game, it is a different squad. With a short squad and with the problems that we’ve faced this week – we tried our best. They work a lot, they try but in the end they scored three goals and we scored nothing.”

On whether he felt the result was harsh: “Nottingham Forest is a team that when they score first then it is a problem. They will wait for the mistakes and when we make a mistake they score. They are a strong team with this style of play.”

Wolves defender Matt Doherty speaking to Sky Sports: “We played well. We were creating chances. It felt like we were limiting them, the goals they scored were bad defending and mistakes from us. A strange one, we played well, knocking the ball around, getting in behind and the keeper had a great game. It’s the hardest league in the world and their keeper was in form and that’s what happens sometimes.

“Strange, one of those games where you feel like the result could’ve been the other way. It’s the Premier League and teams are ruthless. You can’t make mistakes and we made a couple of them and we got punished.

“When the goals go in we didn’t lose confidence. Even at 2-0 we were still playing well. Confidence was still there. We’re going in the right direction, the goal at the end makes it looks worse than it was but we’re pretty confident we’re going in the right direction.”