Postecoglou on taking over Nottingham Forest and 3-0 defeat

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Nottingham Forest manager Ange Postecoglou on taking over Nottingham Forest and 3-0 defeat  13/09/2025  Emirates Stadium, London, UK

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00:00Hi Ange. Despite the score line, did you see plenty of positives from your side today?

00:07Look, it's a disappointing result. Whenever you lose a game of football, it's disappointing.

00:16Fair play to them. They're a very good side, especially here at home.

00:22If anything's going well, it's still a difficult task to come here.

00:31To keep my disappointment in terms of the result in context, it's been a very disruptive week for the players.

00:39Seven days ago, their world was totally different from what it is today.

00:43You've got to understand that. I certainly do.

00:46I can't fault the players' endeavour and effort.

00:51I thought we hung in there. We never really had control of the game at any point.

00:56But we still, I thought, worked really hard in the first half.

01:01It was kind of small seeds towards the end of the first half of us, maybe being able to cause them some problems.

01:08But the second goal straight after halftime sort of killed the game.

01:12They're very good at controlling it from there and we weren't able to get back in it.

01:15So, yeah, you can't accept defeat and you've got to be disappointed by the context of what the week's been like.

01:25I can't fault the players in terms of what they were trying to do.

01:29You mentioned ahead of the game that you've got a very busy schedule coming up.

01:32Will you have the time on the training pitch with your players to kind of get over what you want?

01:37Yeah, I think so. I mean, you know, we've only had one training session together.

01:40Obviously, International Week made it more challenging.

01:42We only really had yesterday together as a group.

01:45So, even though we've got games, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing

01:49because there's a lot of the new signings who haven't really got the opportunity yet.

01:53You know, guys like, you know, Douglas Louise and, you know, you saw today,

01:58Dylan Bakwa and Colomiendo and Jesus, McAtee, Hutchinson, Jair.

02:05Yeah, there's, I mean, Savona's first game.

02:07There's a lot of players there who, you know, the beauty of being in Europe

02:11and I guess, you know, Carabao Cup Wednesday night is that along with training,

02:14we can actually bet in some match principles as well.

02:16So, I think it's kind of, you know, it's kind of good opportunity in this,

02:21between now and next international break, to sort of, you know, integrate the new players,

02:26but also start betting down some of our principles in terms of how we want to play.

02:30Thank you. Next. Yes.

02:33Hi, Ange. Can you talk a little bit about how, obviously, like, next to no time with the players?

02:39So, do you just try and push continuity or can you just talk about how you kind of,

02:44what, how do you own stuff out there? It's just no time.

02:47Well, not for this week anyway. Look, I mean, you know, who knows whether it's the right way

02:51or the wrong way, but, you know, like I said, you know, the players, they're all away on international duty.

02:57The other players had sort of, you know, the whole weekend off.

03:00They only got back in on Tuesday. So, you know, what they left, you know,

03:05when they left the club to what they inherited was totally different.

03:07You know, new face, new voices, new coaching, new training.

03:11And I just thought, you know, today I didn't want to make too many changes to the line-up,

03:16because, you know, I think it would have been unfair, both on the existing players,

03:20but on the new players to be thrown in in such a difficult game.

03:25But I think we can put a line through that now.

03:27I think now we kind of understand that's the week and that's the first week

03:31and the sort of first phase sort of we can put to bed and now start looking ahead.

03:37Like I said, we've got a game Wednesday. We've got two sessions before that.

03:40That's gold for us.

03:41Then we've got another couple of sessions before the next Premier League game.

03:46Opportunity to play some players.

03:47So, you know, I think whatever's happened this week

03:53and, you know, sort of how disruptive it's been,

03:55we can put a line through it and start looking ahead.

03:59What did you make of Elliot Anders?

04:01He's obviously coming from a lot of confidence after his two supporters' room.

04:05How much you've been able to work with him?

04:07Oh, that was brilliant, man. Outstanding.

04:08Yeah, just, yeah, ability.

04:11But, you know, we had the way we really are today.

04:14We didn't have a lot of the ball, but every time he was on it,

04:16I thought he was unbelievable.

04:18Really excited to work with him.

04:21He's still a young man, you know.

04:23But I've only had literally 48 hours with him,

04:27but already I can see he's very, very ambitious,

04:30wants to win, wants to be the best.

04:32Yeah, outstanding.

04:34And I'm very excited to be working with him.

04:36How much of a blow has he been on that?

04:39Yeah, again, just added to the disruption, then you lose Murillo.

04:43So it's kind of, you know, it's just added to the disruption, I guess,

04:48of, you know, we had to make some changes.

04:52And to the sort of line-up that meant, you know,

04:55Netgoa had to play on the right-hand side.

04:57Murata had to play as a left full-back, so that was a bit disruptive.

05:02But again, all that sort of stuff is kind of, you know,

05:06just a moment in time.

05:08Looking ahead, you know, we'll obviously have Alex Jenko ready for the next game.

05:13And it was great.

05:15Young Savannah got some game time today.

05:17We'll get some game time to guys like Jair as well.

05:19So we'll have some options at the back.

05:21And you said that you did see a few little seeds, I think you said.

05:25What were there?

05:26What did you see that you wanted to take forward?

05:28Well, I think, you know, the boys sort of hung in there.

05:33At no stage, I think they sort of, you know, gave up the fight.

05:38I thought Dylan Backwell, when he came on, was really exciting, you know,

05:43for his first sort of game.

05:45I really liked Dan and Doi's sort of ability to cause the opposition problems.

05:53Yeah, the kind of bedrock of the team, guys like Milenkovic and Matty Sells.

06:00I thought Nico Williams, you know, again, had a tough job today,

06:03but I thought when he went to the left-hand side, did a really good job.

06:05So there's plenty there, and there's no one I'm saying,

06:08well, that was disappointing, because like I said,

06:10it'd just be unfair on the players, you know.

06:12In any walk of life, if you have such a massive disruption

06:17and then you're facing such a massive challenge straight away,

06:20all I could ask for that was effort and a bit of endeavour.

06:25We tried to do a couple of things a little bit differently,

06:27and obviously they were trying.

06:29And as long as I see that, that's all I need.

06:32That's the encouragement I need.

06:33My job is now to give them clarity moving forward

06:36so that we can play our football.

06:38Last question?

06:39Jack on Murillo.

06:40Yeah, it's a knock.

06:41They obviously got a bit of a knock there,

06:43so I'm hoping it's nothing too serious

06:47and hoping to be available for next week,

06:49but I'll just wait on their report, yeah.

06:51Last one, Paul.

06:52And it's obviously very early days for you.

06:55How long do you think it will take before we do see a team

06:58that is a reflection of what you want?

06:59Are you talking weeks or months?

07:01Oh, no, mate.

07:02It won't be months.

07:03It won't be weeks.

07:04It will be Wednesday.

07:05You know, I can't afford to waste time.

07:08This is not a project.

07:10This football club had a strong season last year.

07:13It needs to be stronger this year.

07:14My job is to get us to where I want us as quickly as possible.

07:17So, you know, by Wednesday night we start seeing, you know,

07:21some real principles being embedded.

07:24It won't take long.

07:25And I'm not going to let it take long.

07:27I'll make sure that we turn it around

07:30because we've got an unbelievable opportunity this year

07:33to make an impact

07:34and I'm not going to let that slip.

07:36Thank you very much.

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