Nuno not worried about the Premier League table after Forest drop out of top five

Nottingham Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo said that helium was not disquieted astir the Premier League array pursuing his side’s 2-0 decision astatine location to Brentford connected Thursday.

The effect near Forest sixth successful the array and extracurricular the Champions League places connected extremity difference, having occupied the apical 5 for overmuch of the campaign.

“It’s a atrocious nighttime and a atrocious game. I’m not truly disquieted astir the table, much however to close the mistakes,” Nuno told Sky Sports.

“Credit to Brentford but the situations we should lick usually with amended defending. We are disappointed but it’s astir reacting and going for the adjacent one.

“I don’t accidental it was due to the fact that of the semi-final. It was precocious demanding connected a fittingness facet but we should person defended better.

“We didn’t make excessively much, Brentford defended well. We person to vie overmuch amended to execute what we want. The mode we did it successful this crippled is not mean for wherever we are.

“There are inactive 4 games to go, a batch of shot to beryllium played. We person to absorption connected ourselves and play amended football.

“He [Callum Hudson-Odoi] was not capable to continue. He felt thing successful the archetypal half.”

Nottingham Forest 0-2 Brentford

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For Brentford, though, the effect keeps live their hopes of a top-eight decorativeness and the imaginable for a spot successful Europe adjacent season.

The Bees stay 11th successful the table, but chopped the spread to eighth-placed Fulham to conscionable 2 points.

“There is simply a fewer things to happen, the teams up of america request to get little points and we request Manchester City to triumph the FA Cup,” said Thomas Frank connected the imaginable of qualifying for Europe, portion speaking to Sky Sports.

“There’s a fewer things that we cannot power ourselves. Last 12 games we person been highly accordant and good performing. There’s different large crippled connected Sunday which we volition bash our champion to win.”

For Brentford, the imaginable of getting into a European contention volition people different measurement up for a broadside who lone made it to the Premier League for the archetypal clip successful 2021.

Frank would not beryllium drawn connected whether oregon not they are acceptable for European contention yet.

“Ask maine successful 3 games’ time, past I’ll reply the question,” helium said.

“We’re increasing arsenic a nine and the squad is growing. We would beryllium much competitory if we didn’t person arsenic galore injuries past year.

“We consistently execute astatine a bully level [this season]. This play we had 1 atrocious crippled whereas the different play we person had 3 oregon four.”

On the crippled itself, the Dane was delighted with the triumph implicit specified a well-performing side.

“It was precise bully to travel present and triumph against a precise bully team. Defensively, precise beardown we gave precise small away. Very robust, precise clever successful galore phases of the game,” helium said.

“We lacked a spot of coolness successful spells, but we person to travel present and got a good deserved triumph and gave precise small away, that’s precise good.

“I person been speaking to Nathan [Collins] astir however centre-backs who tin play a agelong walk in-behind is specified a bigger menace than shorter passes.”