On Sunday, Nottingham Forest face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge – the ground where Anthony Elanga scored his first goal for Forest in a 1-0 win last season.
The Sweden international is excited about returning to that corner of London and believes Forest can pull off a similar result.
“Hopefully we can go there, just be brave and believe we can go there and win,” he told BBC Radio Nottingham’s Shut Up And Show More Football podcast. “I feel like we’ve got the players to do so.
“We respect Chelsea – they’ve had a great start to their season, but it’s important we stick to what we know best and try to play our game. Hopefully, we can get three points.”
Forest started the campaign by going five Premier League games without defeat, before losing to Fulham at the City Ground last time out.
However, Nuno’s side remain unbeaten away from home and, as well as showing improved form on the road this term, they have been much more difficult to score against – only Liverpool (two) have conceded fewer than Forest in the opening weeks of the campaign.
“It’s been a fairly good start to the season,” Elanga added. “We’ve had a few games where we could have finished teams off but it’s still early doors, we’ve still got so many more games to go and I feel like we’re on a good path.
“We’ve done well with clean sheets so far but we can do even better. We’re not the finished article – we can always improve and I feel like we will.
“We’re attacking together and defending well together. The biggest game that showed that was at Liverpool [where Forest won 1-0]. We defended well and then myself and Callum [Hudson-Odoi] came off the bench and created a goal.”
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