In my opinion, whatever the result of the match, I believe this is just a temporary performance by Nottingham which will get worse again when the end of the season approaches.
One fact that we have to see is just the quality of Nottingham players who are not as good as some other teams such as Man City, Liverpool and Arsenal. And on the one hand Nottingham has experienced surprising performances like this before but in the end also lost that performance.
So we should not expect too much from Nottingham in every match. And as bettors we have to be careful with teams like Nottingham who suddenly increase their consistency very quickly.
When compared to the quality of players, of course Nottingham is under elite team players such as Manchester City and Liverpool but Nottingham players rely on cohesiveness every player works from the front lines to the back line and that is the reason why they can compete in the top 3. We won't see Nottingham players on the top score or top assist list but try to pay attention to their defense lines very solid they are in the top 2 with the best defense at least until the middle of the season, imagine if they have great striker maybe we can see competing in top 1-2.
Have you watch Liverpool players in this season and where they are in the premier league table? If yes , you will know that they have quality players than those teams you mentioned, because they started winning their matches to maintain the first position till now. You are talking about Nottingham position, just give them two matches if they will not drop from that second position, because Manchester city and Arsenal will not allow them to remain in that position so long before they will take it from Nottingham team. Yes, Nottingham have potential defenders in this season which I my confess, because they have saved the team many times in this season not to allowed their opponent strikers to score goals till they defeated their opponents to embraced victory which is what brought them to this current position they are in the premier league table.