National World Top Stories Update Friday 5 December, 2025
One of Nottingham Forest’s key defenders might miss out on this weekend’s Premier League game.
Murillo, left, has been a key player for Nottingham Forest this season.placeholder image
Murillo, left, has been a key player for Nottingham Forest this season. | AFP via Getty Images
His injury is not thought to be a major one, but Dyche has not been taking any chances on his fitness, especially with such a congested fixture schedule in December.
Added into that an illness that hit Murillo earlier this week, and the Brazilian has been kept away from the rest of the squad to maintain everyone else’s fitness.
Dyche said: “He had a slight hamstring issue that we made a judgement call on. Then he was ill, felt a bit better, came back into training, but now he’s ill again.
“So we’ve had to just back off and stop everyone from shaking hands and all the usual stuff that was, one upon a time, part of our lives.
“You don’t want to spread anything, because you never know with illness, especially at this time of the year, so we’re just trying to do the common-sense thing.
“I hope he recovers quickly, but he wasn’t in training today, but it is just illness, so I’m hopeful it will pass quickly.”
Nottingham Forest are currently 16th in the Premier League, with Everton up in 10th. Dyche is Forest’s third manager this season, after Nuno Espirito Santo and Ange Postecoglou’s tenures were both cut short.
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