📈 Chris Wood joins elite striking company with another PL goal

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Ben Browning·7 April 2024

📈 Chris Wood joins elite striking company with another PL goal

Chris Wood just can’t stop scoring at the moment.

The New Zealand striker may be 32-years-old, but he has been in fine form this season for Nottingham Forest, and had managed 11 goals this season prior to facing off with Tottenham.

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Within half an hour, he had made it 12.

Slipped in from the right hand side, he made no mistake from eight yards out, firing his side level in north London.

It continues his incredible run, and means that he has scored in each of his last four games.

Chris Wood this PL season: 12 goals 18/29 shot accuracy (62%) Only one player has scored more goals on 60% shot accuracy in the last 10 PL seasons: Alexandre Lacazette in 2020/21.
– Sunday, 7 April 2024

Stretching back further, he has managed 10 goals or assists in his last 10 appearances, and is currently boasting a conversion rate of 41%, the best of any Premier League player since 2011.

Chris Wood has averaged a goal every 113 minutes in the Premier League this season. Only Alexander Isak (112) and Erling Haaland (111) are averaging higher. Bagsman. 🇳🇿 #NFFC | #PL
– Sunday, 7 April 2024

He proved he was human moments later though, missing from two yards out as his strike hit the post.

Could he be the man that banishes Forest’s relegation fears?