Nottingham Forest boss Nuno Espírito Santo reacts to Forest's last minute defeat to Everton
12/04/2025
City Ground, Nottingham, UK.
12/04/2025
City Ground, Nottingham, UK.
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00:00Okay, when you're ready, please.
00:18Yeah, disappointed, disappointed, and disappointed with the performance.
00:27I think we were not comfortable, we didn't play good, the game didn't flow.
00:34Everton creates a lot of problems to us.
00:37They win the duels, second balls, and keep us putting us under pressure.
00:43In terms of offensive game, we didn't create too much.
00:47Could you see this one coming? Obviously, you're so good at home,
00:50in front of your own fans, but defensively and defensively, just a bit, it's jointed today.
00:55Yeah, yeah, yeah. We didn't anticipate it.
00:59Credit to Everton, I think they were physical,
01:03they didn't allow us too much time on the ball.
01:06But we should do much better and disappointed in the end, the way we concede.
01:11When you cannot win because you don't play good, at least you keep what you have.
01:15I guess it's a day to look for the positives, you still?
01:17No positives, no positives.
01:19But you're still in the top 412 days, third in the league.
01:22Yeah.
01:23When it all settles down, that is still a factor.
01:26Yeah, it's what we mentioned in the previous match, it's in our hands.
01:30It's in our hands.
01:31It's in our hands.
01:32But nobody's going to give us nothing.
01:33We have to do it by ourselves and it's up to us to improve and compete much better,
01:39like we did before.
01:41Yeah.
01:42No?
01:43Yeah.
01:44Such an unusual mistake from Morello.
01:47I just wonder if you've spoken to him afterwards about his injury impact or maybe?
01:52I don't know.
01:53No.
01:54Not normal.
01:55Not normal.
01:56Not normal.
01:57Not normal.
01:58And the decision-making was not the best one, but it's not about the players, it's about
02:04us as a team.
02:06When someone makes a mistake, we always have someone to try and correct and help.
02:11It didn't work out today.
02:13But I'm disappointed because of an offensive corner in the last minutes of the game.
02:18Hopefully we want to try and score and be allowed.
02:22It's not even a counter-attack.
02:25Yeah.
02:26Difficult question to answer now, but do you need to remember what's got you to this point
02:31and all your strengths that have got you this far?
02:34Remember what you're good at in the next five or six games?
02:38It's not about remembering, it's about making sure that we are what we've been.
02:44And we've been a team that forces mistakes and doesn't make.
02:49And today was the other way around.
02:51Do you know if the nerves are a factor?
02:54Do you feel like nerves in the progress of the game or whatever?
02:57I think we cannot get away from the decisive moment of the season.
03:02Not us.
03:03Only realised that they were not comfortable.
03:05The fans also saw that the boys were struggling.
03:10Didn't quite well, but we cannot get away from that.
03:14But this is what we are in this position and we want to try and give it a go.
03:19But nobody's going to give us nothing.
03:21Nobody's going to give us nothing.
03:22It's out about now.
03:23This week I think it's going to be good for us to prepare better and compete well, hopefully.
03:30You went to Everton and won quite comfortably.
03:36Do you see much differences between that Everton side then and this one now?
03:41If so, what?
03:42No, we didn't win comfortably.
03:43There's no match in the Premier League that you won comfortably.
03:46That's a lie.
03:47The quality of the players of Everton are there and they are improving.
03:52They are intense, they are aggressive, so we have to credit them for the game of the day.
03:59Do you think you have any factor to the fact that you're playing a week on Monday
04:02and the last game of the matchday round, you have all the play,
04:05you don't know exactly what to do, you know where the table sits?
04:09Have any difference?
04:10It's a long way, isn't it?
04:11No, I don't think so.
04:13We have to look at the Tottenham game by himself.
04:16It's going to be very tough.
04:18It's going to be very tough and you must improve, you must react.
04:21Not only from today but even from Vila.
04:24We have to play better.
04:26How much of a boost to the players at Everton's World Cup?
04:29Chris, it's amazing to have him.
04:32Hopefully try to recover T, Holla.
04:35We need all the players to know what we've been doing and it's going to be hard work till the end.
04:40So all the players having available are helpful.