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Pat Riddell
Fan writer

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In Sean Dyche's last game in charge of Nottingham Forest, the Reds famously had 35 shots on goal, 10 of which were on target, and scored none. Wolves' goalkeeper Jose Sa was player of the match and deservedly so, such was the home team's profligacy.

At that point, Forest had scored just 25 goals in 26 Premier League games. But, under Vitor Pereira, we have now scored 16 goals in eight Premier League games, plus a further eight in six Europa League matches.

Just when you begin to wonder where the goals will come from, there are 24 goals in 16 outings.

Pereira has overseen his side score more goals than any other Premier League side since he joined the club on 15 February. Nine of those came in just two games - two very important games - at a stage of the season where we desperately needed to win games.

But, even so, Friday's 5-0 demolition away at Sunderland was expected by no-one - except, perhaps, Pereira.

A season-ending injury to Callum Hudson-Odoi was hardly the news Forest needed, but the tactical change to play two strikers - Chris Wood and Igor Jesus - and give Morgan Gibbs-White freedom to float and find space has unlocked something.

Obviously, Wood's return makes a huge difference. The New Zealand international's 20 league goals last season were instrumental in the Reds' success, but so too was his link-up play and understanding with the likes of Hudson-Odoi, Gibbs-White and Anthony Elanga.

Friday's win wasn't just about scoring goals, it was about identifying weaknesses and patterns in the opposition.

Nuno Espirito Santo, and Steve Cooper before him, always had a plan for each game. It is hard to argue either Ange Postecoglou or Dyche did, with both seeming to stubbornly prefer the same set-up for each game.

As we come to the business-end of the season, there is still much work to be done. Hopefully, the results and performances we've seen in recent weeks continue.

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Dale Johnson
Football issues correspondent

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As the battle for places in Europe hots up in the Premier League, the race to shuffle papers to satisfy Uefa's bureaucrats has been just as intense.

This is because European football's governing body has strict multi-club ownership (MCO) rules.

Those rules could cause a team to be demoted from one competition to another, like Crystal Palace were from the Europa League to the Conference League last season, or miss out on Europe altogether.

Last year, Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis placed the club into a blind trust in case they qualified for the Champions League.

That could have presented a conflict with his other club, Olympiakos.

With Forest in the semi-finals of the Europa League, once again they have a chance of being in the Champions League. And Olympiakos look like being in it too.

In a blind trust, relevant parties transfer their shares to independent trustees, whereby all the decision-making of the club will rest solely under the control of the third party.

The club are controlled through a company called NF Football Investments.

Until 28 February, Marinakis was the only person with significant control.

He was removed and it was passed to another company, Pittville Four Limited, controlled by Janet Lucy Gibson, Henry Peter Hickman and Eleanor Catherine Walsh.

Those three independent trustees were also added to the football club's board, replacing Mighael Dugher, Simon Forster and Jonathan Owen.

Forest's problem could be that the new additions had to pass the Premier League's owners and directors test.

It was not until 17 April that Companies House was updated.

The Premier League's register of directors, last updated on 2 April, still lists Marinakis, Dugher, Forster and Owen.

Will the lodging of the blind trust on 28 February be enough? Or would Uefa consider 17 April to be date the club were compliant?

Forest are adamant that control was officially relinquished by Marinakis on 28 February and they will have no issue with Uefa.

However, until the CFCB makes another ruling on a blind trust, there is no absolute certainty it would be accepted.

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