Nottingham Forest are sitting in third place in the Premier League table and will have an FA Cup semi-final to look forward to after the international break.
Several star performers will head off to play for their respective countries before returning for a final push towards Champions League football.
Forest thrashed Ipswich Town 4-2 on Saturday with Anthony Elanga scoring twice and Nikola Milenkovic and Jota Silva also adding further goals.
The Reds are now seven points clear of the team in sixth having played a game more in the quest to claim a Champions League place next season.
Late on Sunday night, Forest star Morgan Gibbs-White was handed his place in the England squad to replace the injured Cole Palmer who missed the Sunday defeat to Arsenal.
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Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images
Nottingham Forest trio send dig to England boss Thomas Tuchel
The England head coach has clearly seen sense and perhaps this news suggests that Gibbs-White wasn’t too far away from being considered for a call up in the first place.
Tuchel is going to be taking charge of England for the first time in the coming days. The Three Lions face Albania and Latvia and now Gibbs-White will be hoping for more minutes.
After the announcement was made, Forest posted the news on Instagram, with Anthony Elanga, Neco Williams and Harry Toffolo all making slight digs at the fact he wasn’t called up in the first place.
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Elanga said: “Only right!”
Williams also went with two words and posted: “About time!”
Finally, Toffolo who has been out of the squad lately said: “Rightly so.”
Morgan Gibbs-White stats vs Ipswich
The 25-year-old clearly values playing for England very highly and it will delight him that he’s finally been given the call-up for the squad.
Now, he will hope to get on the pitch and prove to Tuchel that he shouldn’t be receiving anymore rejection phonecalls ahead of the World Cup.
Morgan Gibbs-White stats vs Ipswich Total
Minutes 88
Assists 1
Key Passes 3
Touches 56
Who Scored Rating 7.44
Against Ipswich it appeared as though Gibbs-White had a bit of a point to prove with the Forest captain teeing up Silva to finish the scoring for the Reds.
It highlights that the team spirit is high right now at Forest that his teammates have taken to defending him and hopefully he can get on the pitch in the coming fixtures.