Latest Nottingham Forest news as Steve Cooper's Reds prepare to face Villa in Premier League clash
Nottingham Forest will be aiming to bounce back from last weekend’s disappointment when they host Aston Villa on Sunday.
Cooper also got his substitutions wrong, as he admitted last week. The number and the timing of them disrupted Forest’s rhythm and took out the spine of the team. It was such a frustrating result, but there are no easy games in the Premier League - even against newly-promoted sides. It’s fine margins for Forest at the minute, and that’s just where they are at as a team. But that’s better than major surgery being required; it would be more concerning if Forest had a lot of big things wrong. Little things are proving costly in a division which is ruthless.
Having so many attacking players sidelined is having a huge impact. It’s not just losing Hudson-Odoi which is a blow, it is also being without Chris Wood and Divock Origi, and with Taiwo Awoniyi just coming back. Whether I would bring him into the XI this weekend, though, I’m not so sure. He has pushed his case for a start, but I still think the midfield three of Sangare, Nicolas Dominguez and Orel Mangala has generally been good. They can be an effective combination.
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For me, it’s a positive that there is still a lot more to come from a lot of players - Sangare included. You want to get better over the course of a season, both individually and collectively. At the minute, Forest are in the process of gelling as a team and getting players to adapt; that is why they are where they are and perhaps why they have got the results they have in recent games.
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