I Admit, Nottingham Forest Is Currently Struggling – Nuno Espirito Santo

Nottingham Forest manager, Nuno Espirito Santo has come out to admit that his club’s fairytale journey is faltering. This is coming following their latest defeat at Brentford, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, the reality is that Nottingham Forest is currently struggling in certain aspects of the game, but he remains convinced that his players’ belief, desire, and commitment will continue until the end of the season.

Nuno added that he and his players will not change anything about their football, and they just have to rediscover their good form.

His words, “We don’t see it but we feel it. The explanation for that we have to find in ourselves. But I don’t see (pressure), I see belief, desire and commitment. But the reality is we are struggling in some aspects of our game – focus and determination to be practical and solve the situations that are simple to solve. (To get back to ourselves) is the basic option we have. We don’t have to change, we have to go back and find our version.

We have been clear and spoken many times about how we play. Our basic is being compact and solid, we don’t give away chances. We are a team that always covers, so our opponents have to do much more to achieve what they achieved today. With all respect to Brentford, it was too easy. We have been talking about how we are as a team and defensively we don’t allow too many situations. We have had a lot of clean sheets. This is the basic pillar we have, but today it was the other way around. We credit Brentford, but I believe with a better approach we could have solved the situations.

I think we were in a position where there’s three teams above us that we need to finish above. So that’s a challenge. There are four games left, we have a chance of finishing eighth, which would be the best position in the club’s history in the Premier League.

So that’ll be a fantastic achievement, but it depends the perfect run-in and it demands that we do what we’ve done so well over the last four years – laser-like focus on the next game. Some of them are playing the best football of their careers.”

WOW.