Nottingham Forest are “struggling” says boss Nuno Espirito Santo after their Champions League hopes suffered one other blow with a 2-0 defeat at residence to Brentford.
Forest might have moved as much as third within the Premier League with a win however targets from Kevin Schade and Yoane Wissa inflicted a harmful loss, which leaves them sixth.
After their FA Cup semi-final defeat to Manchester Metropolis, a 3rd league defeat in 4 video games leaves Forest in an actual battle for a top-five end.
Nuno mentioned: “We don’t see it [pressure] however we really feel it.
“The reason for that we now have to search out in ourselves. However I don’t see (stress), I see perception, need and dedication.
“However the actuality is we’re struggling in some features of our sport – focus and willpower to be sensible and remedy the conditions which might be easy to resolve.
“(To get again to ourselves) is the essential possibility we now have. We don’t have to vary, we now have to return and discover our model.
“It is a unhealthy night time, it is a unhealthy sport” 😳
Nottingham Forest head coach Nuno Espirito Santo says they’re disillusioned after their defeat to Brentford 🫤 pic.twitter.com/Ex3hBWUxFm
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“Now we have been clear and spoken many occasions about how we play. Our primary is being compact and strong, we don’t give away possibilities.
“We’re a group that at all times covers, so our opponents must do way more to realize what they achieved at the moment. With all respects to Brentford, it was too straightforward.
“Now we have been speaking about how we’re as a group and defensively we don’t enable too many conditions.
“Now we have had a number of clear sheets. That is the essential pillar we now have, however at the moment it was the opposite approach round.
“We credit score Brentford, however I consider with a greater strategy we might have solved the conditions.”
Brentford had been worthy victors, stretching their unbeaten run to 4 video games and so they nonetheless have European ambitions of their very own, sitting two factors off eighth, which might be sufficient to safe Europa Convention League motion.
“I feel we had been ready the place there’s three groups above us that we have to end above. In order that’s a problem,” boss Thomas Frank mentioned.
“There’s 4 video games left, we now have an opportunity of ending eighth, which might be the very best place within the membership’s historical past within the Premier League.
“In order that’ll be a improbable achievement, but it surely relies upon the right run-in and it calls for that we do what we’ve completed so properly during the last 4 years – laser-like concentrate on the following sport.
“A few of them are taking part in the very best soccer of their careers.”
