The Nottingham Forest “in difficulty” said that the Nuno Espirito Santo boss after their hopes of the Champions League suffered another blow with a 2-0 defeat against Brentford.
Forest could have switched to the first row of the Premier League with a victory, but the goals of Kevin Schade and Yoane Wissa inflicted a damaging loss, which leaves them sixth.
After their defeat in the FA Cup semi-finals against Manchester City, a third championship loss in four games leaves forest in a real fight for a finish among the first five.
Nuno said: “We don’t see it [pressure] But we feel it.
“The explanation for that we have to find in ourselves. But I do not see (pressure), I see belief, desire and commitment.
“But the reality is that we fight in certain aspects of our game – the concentration and determination to be practical and to resolve the situations that are simple to solve.
“(To come back to ourselves) is the basic option we have. We don’t have to change, we have to go back and find our version.
“It’s a bad night, it’s a bad game” 😳
Nottingham Forest head coach, Nuno Espirito Santo, says they are disappointed after their defeat against Brentford 🫤 pic.twitter.com/Ex3HBWuxFM
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“We have been clear and spoken several times of the way we play. Our base is to be compact and solid, we do not give a chance.
“We are a team that always covers, so our opponents must do much more to achieve what they have achieved today. With all respect to Brentford, it was too easy.
“We talked about how we are in a team and defensively we do not allow too many situations.
“We had a lot of clean sheets. This is the basic pillar we have, but today it was the opposite.
“We were leaving Brentford, but I think that with a better approach, we could have resolved situations.”
Brentford was worthy winners, extending their undefeated race for four games and they still have their own ambitions, sitting at two eighth points, which could be enough to guarantee the action of the Europa conference league.
“I think we were in a position where there are three teams above us that we have to finish above. It is therefore a challenge,” said boss Thomas Frank.
“There are four games left, we have a chance to finish 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 race and it requires that we do what we have done so well in the past four years – a laser accent on the next game.
“Some of them play the best football in their careers.”
