Nottingham Forest fights, Nuno admits after defeat of Brentford

Nottingham Forest “fights” says that the chief is Nuno Espirito Santo after their hopes in the Champions League have suffered another blow with a 2-0 defeat at home in Brentford.

Forest could go to third place in the Premier League with a victory, but the goals of Kevin Schade and Yoane Wissa inflicted a harmful loss, leaving them in sixth place.

After a semi -final defeat of FA Cup of Manchester City, the defeat of the Third League in four games leave Forest in the right fight for the top five.

Nuno said, “We don’t see him (pressure), but we feel it.

“We have to find an explanation for that. But I don’t see (pressure), I see belief, desire and dedication.

“But the reality is to fight in some aspects of our game – focus and determination to be practical and solve situations that are easy to deal with.

“(To get back to ourselves) is the basic option we have. We don’t have to change, we have to come back and find our version.

“It’s a bad night, it’s a bad game” 😳

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“We have been clear many times and talked about how we play. Our basic compact and firm, we do not give a chance.

“We are a team that always covers, so our opponents have to do much more to achieve what they have achieved today. With all the aspects of Brentford, it was too simple.

“We talked about how we are a team and we’re not allowing too many situations.

“We had a lot of clean leaves. This is the basic pillar we have, but today it was the other way around.

“We admit Brentford, but I believe we could have solved the situations with a better approach.”

Brentford were worthy winners, stretching their undefeated races in four games and still have their own European ambitions, sitting two points, which could be enough to ensure Europa Conference League action.

“I think we were in a position where there are three teams above us that we need to end up. It’s a challenge,” said Chief Thomas Frank.

“There are four games left, we have a chance to finish the eighth, which would be the best position in the history of the club in the Premier League.

“So it will be a fantastic achievement, but it depends on the perfect running and requires that we do what we have done so well in the last four years-the focus on the next game.

“Some of them play the best football of their careers.”