Nuno Espírito Santo reacts to Forest's last minute defeat to Everton

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Nottingham Forest boss Nuno Espírito Santo reacts to Forest's last minute defeat to Everton  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.

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