Nottingham Forest central defender is happy to get more games since Nuno Espírito Santo took over
Séamus Coleman and Nathan Collins, for example, have turned survival into an annual event but several members of the Republic of Ireland squad continually drop down to the EFL Championship, where 38 of them reside.
Twelve Irish players have featured in the league this season. Really, that number is inflated as Galway man Alex Murphy got three minutes off the bench for Newcastle United against Chelsea in November. Murphy’s fellow teenager Nathan Fraser just broke into the Wolverhampton Wanderers first team but he rejected an under-21 debut against San Marino tonight as the English-born striker wants to cement his club status.
Footballers being footballers, Forest’s perilous situation prompted some gallows humour at Ireland training in Abbostown this week. “I wasn’t playing as much as I wanted to at the start of my Forest career,” said Omobamidele, “but there’s a process to everything and just at that time I was working on myself, working on everything football-wise, I was waiting for my opportunity and I’m grateful for Nuno who has come in and given me that.
For the record, the toughest opponent Omobamidele has had to handle so far was Liverpool’s Colombian winger Luis Diaz.
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