Pereira has made Nottingham Forest 'a happy place again'

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It has been a terrific turnaround by Nottingham Forest in the backend of this season.

They were in big trouble, but Vitor Pereira and his coaching staff have managed to get a disjointed squad turned around into a side that is now unbeaten in their last eight Premier League games.

In those eight games, they have taken 16 points. From the previous 28 games, they had taken 27 points. So they have gone from earning less than one point per game for the first 28 games to taking two points per game for the last eight games.

That shows the turnaround.

It needed to be such a turnaround as well because the likes of Tottenham, West Ham and Leeds have been winning matches down there as well. Forest have had to be that good to get to safety - and they did it with two games spare in the end.

They can relax at least now because they know they will be playing Premier League football next season, but I'm sure they will be aiming to finish the season with Pereira's unbeaten Premier League run intact.

Then it will be about rebuilding to make sure they aren't down at that end of the table against next season.

What Vitor Pereira has done is put smiles on faces. He has made the Forest dressing room a happy place again. They have always been a confident bunch, no matter the head coach, because they always felt they had enough in there but they needed some unification.

Pereira has certainly done that. I remember when he walked into the job, on his first day there he said: 'A smile can do magic' - and he has beamed his way through his tenure at Forest.

Do you think it is a job well done for Vitor Pereira? How would you rate his time at the club so far?

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