Nuno Espirito Santo put apart his frustration to reiterate that Nottingham Forest’s Champions League hopes are nonetheless in their very own fingers.
Forest have now misplaced back-to-back Premier League video games after a last-gasp 1-0 dwelling defeat to Everton on Saturday.
The Toffees had been the higher staff on the Metropolis Floor, the place Abdoulaye Doucoure grabbed a 94th-minute winner.
With Manchester Metropolis and Aston Villa each profitable, and Chelsea and Newcastle United in motion on Sunday, the strain is now firmly on third-place Forest, with the highest 5 securing Champions League qualification.
“Very powerful and really disappointing,” Nuno informed BBC Sport.
“The sport was not the perfect and we weren’t comfy. The start of the second half was the one time we had been capable of quiet down and play.
“Whenever you can’t win as a result of the opponent is having a greater sport than you, you continue to have the draw. You continue to should be strong and compact. As we speak, we had been punished by our personal errors.
“It will be powerful to the top of the season, however the optimistic factor is it’s nonetheless in our fingers and we’ve got to bounce again and play higher.
“No one goes to present us something, we’ve got to beat it. You will need to have a very good week of preparation for the Tottenham sport.”
Subsequent up for Forest is a visit to Nuno’s former membership Tottenham on April 21. Opta’s supercomputer nonetheless ranks their probabilities of securing Champions League soccer at 73.8%.
Everton, in the meantime, celebrated their first win since February, although David Moyes’ staff have solely misplaced twice within the league since he changed Sean Dyche in January.
The Toffees have misplaced simply one among their final eight Premier League matches towards opponents above them within the Premier League desk in the beginning of the day (W4 D3), this after shedding every of their earlier three earlier than this run.
Doucoure’s aim (93:03) was Everton’s newest profitable aim away from dwelling within the Premier League on file (since 2006-07).
The midfielder celebrated in entrance of the travelling followers by miming signing a contract. It has been reported Everton haven’t triggered an choice to increase the 32-year-old’s deal.
Doucoure, although, desires to remain.
“I can’t discuss an excessive amount of about that however it’s perhaps my final moments on the membership and for the time being it is vitally quiet on the membership facet. I really like this membership,” Doucoure informed BBC Sport.
“I really like this membership. Because the second I signed, all the time I need to keep. My contract is working out so let’s see what occurs within the subsequent couple of weeks however I really like this membership.”
