Better Times Just Around The Corner For Nottingham Forest, Promises Ange Postecoglou

Ange Postecoglou insisted that his Nottingham Forest would statesman to return style connected Wednesday successful nan Carabao Cup astatine Swansea aft he suffered a bruising first crippled successful charge, losing 3-0 astatine Arsenal.

The manager, who was appointed connected Tuesday arsenic Nuno Espírito Santo’s successor, watched his squad spell down to a brace of Martín Zubimendi goals and 1 from Viktor Gyökeres. Forest hardly threatened and it was a comfortable measurement for Arsenal to respond to their 1-0 conclusion astatine Liverpool earlier nan world break.

Postecoglou could constituent to plentifulness of mitigating factors but if he sounded arsenic though he wanted to constitute this crippled off, he made it clear he thought amended times were astir nan corner. “It won’t beryllium months, it won’t beryllium weeks … it will beryllium Wednesday,” Postecoglou said, erstwhile asked really agelong he would request to make an impression. “I cannot spend to discarded time. This is not a project. This shot nine had a beardown play past year, they request to beryllium stronger this twelvemonth and my occupation is to get america to wherever I want america arsenic quickly arsenic possible.

“On Wednesday, we will commencement seeing principles being embedded. It won’t return agelong and I will not fto it return long. I will make judge we move it astir because we person an unbelievable opportunity to make an effect this play and I americium not going to fto that slip.”

Postecoglou, whose adjacent convention crippled is astatine Burnley connected Saturday, noted that nan world break had made preparations for nan Arsenal travel difficult, saying he only had each of his players together for 1 training session, connected Friday. He did not want to put successful excessively galore of nan club’s galore caller signings and truthful decided to make only 1 alteration to Nuno’s past lineup astatine nan club. Even that was enforced by nan hamstring wounded that Ola Aina picked up connected work pinch Nigeria.

“It’s been a very disruptive week for nan players,” Postecoglou said. “Seven days ago, their world was wholly different to what it was today. You can’t judge conclusion and you’ve sewage to beryllium disappointed by it but nan discourse of what nan week has been for illustration … I can’t responsibility nan players successful position of what they were trying to do.

“I didn’t want to make excessively galore changes to nan lineup because I deliberation it would person been unfair some connected nan existing players but besides connected nan caller players to beryllium thrown into specified a difficult game. But we tin put a statement done that now. We benignant of understand that’s nan week and that’s nan first week … nan first shape that we tin put to furniture and now commencement looking ahead.

“We’ve sewage a crippled Wednesday. We’ve sewage 2 sessions earlier that. That’s golden for us. We’ve sewage different mates of sessions earlier nan adjacent Premier League game. So whatever’s happened this week and really disruptive it’s been, we tin put a statement done it and commencement looking ahead.”