Nottingham Forest Draw 2-2 at Liverpool: Glasner's First Point Brings Pride and What-If
Nottingham Forest walked into Anfield having lost their first two matches of the season. They walked out with a 2-2 draw and their first point of the 2026-27 Premier League campaign. BBC Sport
For a side still finding their feet under a brand-new manager, taking a result at Liverpool — one of the most forbidding away grounds in English football — was no small thing. Forest had arrived on Merseyside with zero points and zero momentum after back-to-back defeats to open the season. The Guardian
The man in the dugout is Oliver Glasner, appointed as Forest's head coach in July 2026. Premier League The club officially announced him on a Monday morning, making him the focal point of their summer rebuild. Yahoo Sports Glasner spent 19 years as a defender before moving into management, and that background shapes the way his teams play — organised, hard to break down, willing to dig in. Premier League
After the match, Glasner's feelings were mixed. He told BBC Sport he was "proud" of his players and believed Forest could have won the game outright. That is the tension of a 2-2 draw: two goals at Anfield is a serious return, yet walking away with a share of the points rather than all three can leave a manager wondering what might have been. BBC Sport
For Forest fans, this is a result to build on. Two losses to start the season is a tough hole, and a new manager needs early evidence that his ideas are landing. A draw at Liverpool does not erase those opening defeats, but it gives Glasner something concrete to point to — a performance where his side went toe-to-toe with one of the league's heavyweights and held their nerve.
Glasner's task now is turning one good night into a run of them. The Premier League season is long, and a single point in August will not define it. But for a club that changed managers over the summer and started the campaign with two losses, Anfield offered the first glimpse that the new direction might lead somewhere.
