Karim Bolton

Tasnim - Nottingham Forest will play Bolton in the final Championship game of the season on Sunday and Iranian striker Karim Ansarifad can demonstrate his abilities once more on front of the City Ground crowd.

Only last week, it had been reported that the Iranian forward was considering a move away from Nottingham Forest, despite having only arrived at the City Ground on a contract until the end of next season in November.

Against an out of sorts QPR, Ansarifard was given the chance to prove himself from the start, and duly took it. Although he missed a few earlier chances, the 29-year-old latched onto Joao Carvalho’s through ball 10 minutes into the second half, and clinically finished what proved to be the only goal of the game to seal a 1-0 win for Forest and make it back-to-back wins for Martin O’Neill’s side.

Given the success of the opportunity given to him in London on Saturday, Ansarifard may wonder now if his time with Forest needs to be quite so short after all, Football League World reported.

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The striker has shown that he can contribute to the side, and now it may be up to O’Neill to show Ansarifard that the club want his contributions.

Providing the game goes ahead – which given the circumstances admittedly still looks far from certain – Ansarifard would surely like the chance to demonstrate his abilities once more on front of the City Ground crowd on the final day against Bolton.

If O’Neill is ready to give him that chance from the start in back-to-back games, and Ansarifard is ruthless enough to take it, then his seemingly brief time at The City Ground, may yet be set to get an unexpected extension.

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