3 things we clearly learnt about Nottingham Forest during yesterday’s play-off final win v Huddersfield Town

Nottingham Forest are back in the Premier League after 23 years.

Steve Cooper’s side beat Huddersfield Town 1-0 in the Championship play-off final at Wembley on Sunday, with Levi Colwill’s own-goal a few minutes before the half proving the difference.

Forest were in the ascendancy before the break and rode their luck after it, with Huddersfield having two strong penalty appeals turned down.

The top flight beckons for the Reds, who will feel they are back where they belong, but before the focus shifts to the preparations for 2022/23 we’ve highlighted three things we clearly learnt about Forest during yesterday’s play-off final win…

Scott McKenna is a big-game player

There were suggestions ahead of the game that the left side of Forest’s backline could be got at with Scott McKenna not the most agile of defenders and Jack Colback a makeshift wing-back but the former certainly answered the doubters.

In Forest’s biggest game in more than two decades, the Scot stepped up and produced a man of the match performance at Wembley.

Forest have been known for their brave, front-foot football under Cooper but yesterday, their solidity was key to victory.

Time and time again McKenna was there to deny Huddersfield opportunities as he proved himself a big-game player.

Stepping up to the Premier League will not be easy but the 25-year-old has earned his chance to do so.

James Garner will be hard to replace if he doesn’t come back for 2022/23

In a cagey game lacking in chances, James Garner’s quality on the ball was enough to help Forest return to the Premier League.

The Manchester United loanee’s fiendish cross forced Colwill into action and it is more a credit to his delivery than any mistake from the defender that it ended up in the