MATTY TO CASH IN AS TOP DEFENDER

WINGER Matty Cash has been told that he is made for the Premier League – as a defender.

Former Nottingham Forest boss Mark Warburton was the first to spot Cash’s potential at right-back.

Now current Reds coach Sabri Lamouchi is picking him to play there and Cash is delivering.

After his QPR team shut out Forest, Warburton said: “Matty can be a top player in the Premier League at right-back. He can go on and on – he loves playing football and it shines through.”

And Cash said: “I worked with Mark for a long period and he is a good coach and I wish him well.

“I learned a lot under him. He said to me a couple of years ago that I was a right-back in the making so I thank him for it.”

Cash (above) was one of the positives on an afternoon when Forest blew the chance of closing the gap on the top two.

But he is not about to press the panic button after a winless run of three games and trips to Cardiff and Middlesbrough up next.

Cash added: “We played some good stuff and we were the better team, but they made it difficult.

It’s one point and we move on.

“The season has started now, there’s loads to play for, and I’d rather be where we are than second as they will be feeling it.

“We are the hunters breathing down their necks, not talk about promotion. Talking is talking and we want to do it on the pitch.”

Fifth-placed Forest might have won had a first-half goal by Joe Worrall not been ruled out because the ball was moving as Joe Lolley struck the corner kick.

Hoops chief Warburton said: “I would have been raging and I am sure Sabri is raging. But you have to stand by the rules.” FOREST: Samba 7, Cash 8, Worrall 7, Figueiredo 7, Ribeiro 6, Watson 7, Silva 7 (Carvalho 76, 6), Ameobi 6 (Yates 58, 6), Lolley 7, Diakhby 6 (Mighten 70, 5), Grabban 6.

QPR: Kelly 8, Rangel 7, Hall 8,

Barbet 7, Manning 7, Ball 7, Cameron 7, Osayi-samuel 6, Eze 7 (Amos 87), Pugh 7 (Chair 75), Hugill 6.

REF: Robert Jones ATT: 28,750