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Considering that nottingham Forest has become a punchline because of the number of signatures under Evangelos Marinakis from a promotion victory, it could be a surprise to hear that they have used the least players of any Premier League club this season.
This continuity is one of the secrets of Forest and the race that took them to the Champions League positions with the benefits of six points over the ruling Manchester City champion in fifth place, with only 14 Premier League cases.
Five forest players started at least 23 of their 24 games in the competition this season. There are their extraordinary goalkeeper Matz Sels, pairing in the central part of Nikola Milenkovic and Murillo, Ola Ain with full Bek and top scorer Chris Wood.
No other team had so many players that start so many games in the Premier League this season. Brighton, the team they won 7-0 on Saturday, did not have it. Not even at the bottom of Club Southampton or perhaps the biggest samples in Tottenham season.
Templation is to suggest that it is happiness. Maybe Nuno Espirito Santo was just lucky with the injuries and the absence of European obligations to distract the forest. It is more likely that this is both the consequence and the benefit of the manager’s approach.
At Wolves 2019/20, a season in which his team played not less than 17 Europa League games, he had 11 players within his team, who also made 33 appearances or more in the Premier League. They finished seventh for the second consecutive season.
In an interview with Nuno at the time about this trait in his teams, he saw it as evolution in his thinking. “I had big teams,” he said. “I had big teams in Rio Ave, Valencia and Porto. All managers go through the learning process and trying to find solutions.”
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The benefits of a smaller detachment are obvious. When Anthony Elanga crosses the ball, he knows that Wood probably withdrew in a far place. When Morgan Gibbs-White picks up the ball, one should not look to know where the runners will be.
“More complexity, small societies. It comes from hours and hours on the training ground, for hours playing together,” Nuno said in that conversation all those years. “It becomes a routine that becomes a habit and your habits become your character.”
Players develop relationships. For now, so normal. But what is fascinating is that Nun’s style of play facilitates this continuity. A team that will cover at the least distance of that season of the Premier League 2019/20? His team of wolves. And the trend continues.
This season, a team that will lead at least per game is Nuno -Lion Forest. It’s not because players don’t try. This is not about the rate of work or lethargy. This is the famous Nuno Watchwords, the desire for his team to remain compact at all times.
Forest is a style unusual among the teams at the upper end of the table. Even when they passed Brighton last time, they did so with only 37.4 percent of the property. Nun’s team does not press the opposition to quickly bring it back in the same way.
No team of the Premier League allows opposition to play more passage before making a defensive action than Forest. They are pleased that the opposition be possessed in areas in which they find that they control the situation even without the ball.
The result is that the forest allows its opponents to progress the ball more per passing sequence than anyone else. As Nuno sees the game, the tim sucking forward only means that there is more space for his offensive players to run into the transition.
Of course, there is no correct or wrong way to play football, and apart from stylish preferences, the only thing that really matters if it works. But it is reasonable to conclude that although Forest -the approach to mentally taxes, is not so physically demanding.
Interestingly, the team that presses the most, the team that allows the least permeable passes by defensive action is Ange Postecoglouv Tottenham. It is an intense style, which is considered a polar opposite to Nuno -in the beginning of them welcomed by their supporters.
But since the spurs suffer more muscle injuries than any other team in the competition, more than mere aesthetics may be considered, even more than the immediate result. If such football is harder to maintain, it affects the availability of players.
Bournemouth plays a similar emergency game and are wildly overcome, so it can succeed. But they also did so despite great injuries. Tim Premier League currently with the least injuries? That would be nottingham forest.
There are reasons for believing that the current form of forest is unsustainable. The bookmakers believe that they remain a chance to end up in the top four. Data on the expected goals would also indicate that there are other teams more likely.
But it would be wrong to think this is all a coincidence. If Nuno is in a state of over and over to draw his strongest players on the field, and history would suggest that his methods mean that he can, and then expect his team Nottingham Forest to surprise.
