Nottingham Forest inflict a first home defeat of the season on Brentford as they maintain their push for a European place.
Crystal Palace are putting plenty of players around Myles Lewis-Skelly when he gets the ball. The Eagles end up giving a free-kick away as Lewis-Skelly's run across the middle is halted."Difficult day for us, the opponent was strong and they of course scored the goal in the first seconds which makes it difficult. We had moments during the first half where we had the ball and managed to play through them but overall we weren't able to stop their attacking threats today.
Crystal Palace caused Arsenal some early problems by hitting the ball long in midweek, will they do likewise this time? They've to get the ball first. "It's a reminder to this group that games can get away from us if we are not 100% and don't do the right things."Will home advantage work in Crystal Palace's favour this time as the two sides meet again in such a short space of time?Arsenal beat Palace 3-2 at home in the Carabao Cup quarter-final on Wednesday with Gabriel Jesus bagging a hat-trick."It is different, but we don't have to analyse them too much," said Gunners boss Mikel Arteta.
“ in training, where you build muscle memory. You work on it in training and I want to do that in games as well.“We’ll let the fans enjoy the journey. We’ll keep taking things game-by-game and try to keep on winning.”“He’s been fantastic. He speaks many languages, so I think that helps the players. He’s very demanding and I think that’s been helping this season, contributing to the way we’ve been winning games.
“Maybe we didn’t have enough on the bench because of injuries, but I’m quite pleased with the performance. It happens – that’s football. "The plan is that Sandro plays a little bit deeper than Joe Willock and Bruno , but they're still given a freedom to express themselves and to move. It's getting that balance right between the freedom and the structure, and I think they got the balance perfect.""The message is that we're probably, at this moment in time, need to concentrate on the players that we do have and get the best out of them rather than looking externally.
Having withstood some early pressure from the hosts, Forest opened the scoring towards the end of the first period when Neco Williams got down the left and his low cross was placed into the bottom left corner by Nigeria full-back Aina. Mikkel Damsgaard and Yoane Wissa were both unable to convert first-half opportunities to give Thomas Frank's side the lead and Kristoffer Ajer's close-range effort was superbly repelled by Forest goalkeeper Matz Sels as the hosts looked for a way back into the match.Having achieved his initial target of safeguarding their top-flight status, he has transformed them into a side now occupying one of the Champions League places.
Their displays limited the influence and attacking threat normally carried by Bryan Mbeumo, Wissa and Kevin Schade as Brentford failed to score at home for the first time this term.After the opportunity to rate players has closed, the score displayed represents the average from all the submissions by BBC Sport users.All times UK. Tables are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made.
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