{"id":130203,"date":"2025-09-09T12:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130203\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:33:15","slug":"ange-postecoglou-named-nottingham-forest-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130203\/","title":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou named Nottingham Forest manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

How will Forest’s tactics change under Postecoglou?published at 13:10 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

13:10 BST<\/p>\n

Umir Irfan
Football tactics correspondent<\/p>\n

\"AngeImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Across his last three jobs, Ange Postecoglou’s sides have played in a 4-3-3 or 4-4-1-1 shape that aimed to dominate the ball, playing quickly with it, and pressing incredibly aggressively without it. The high intensity of his style in all phases has become a hallmark of his system, with both positives and negatives.<\/p>\n

Reading that, it is clear Nuno\u2019s counter-attacking style differs largely from Ange\u2019s approach, so what does this mean for Forest?<\/p>\n

Forest’s transfer business this summer appears to have been done with an eye on becoming a more technical, ball-dominant side. Interestingly, James McAtee, Douglas Luiz and Oleksandr Zinchenko are all players who have all developed at Manchester City, highlighting the change in intent.<\/p>\n

Big money signing Omari Hutchinson and fellow Chelsea graduate Calum Hudson-Odoi too might enjoy playing in a way that ensures they keep the ball more, with license to create. <\/p>\n

Questions arise when looking at the out of possession differences between both managers however. Nuno has often held the lowest defensive line in the league across his various clubs, with Ange playing the highest defensive line at Spurs. <\/p>\n

Ange has been reluctant to alter his system but there was a level of pragmatism seen in Spurs\u2019 Europa League win. Spurs were happier to defend their own box for large periods of time leading to success against Frankfurt and Manchester United.<\/p>\n

Without a preseason, and coming into a club that has been built on a counter attacking, five-at-the-back style, adopting an approach more in line with his Spurs’ knockout games might be a sensible thing to do early in his tenure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How will Forest’s tactics change under Postecoglou?published at 13:10 British Summer Time 13:10 BST Umir IrfanFootball tactics correspondent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-130203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}