{"id":140750,"date":"2025-09-13T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/140750\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T18:17:07","slug":"ange-postecoglous-nottingham-forest-takes-on-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/140750\/","title":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou\u2019s Nottingham Forest takes on Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ange Postecoglou got a harsh reintroduction to the Premier League on Saturday. Nick Woltemade\u2019s first taste of English soccer couldn\u2019t have been sweeter.<\/p>\n

A trip to Arsenal was among the hardest possible starts for Postecoglou following his hiring by Nottingham Forest this week and the former Tottenham manager saw his new team get brushed aside 3-0 at Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n

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Postecoglou during his first match managing Forest.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Arsenal\u2019s new signings did the damage, with defensive midfielder Martin Zubimendi scoring twice and Viktor Gyokeres \u2014 a prolific striker expected to transform the team\u2019s fortunes \u2014 delivering exactly what is expected of him with a close-range finish. It was a third win in four matches for Arsenal, one of the top title contenders.<\/p>\n

It was also a day when a slew of the Premier League\u2019s late-summer signings made their debuts and one of the them was Woltemade, who headed home Newcastle\u2019s goal in a 1-0 win over Wolverhampton.<\/p>\n

Woltemade is a lanky Germany international who joined Newcastle for a reported club-record fee of 69 million pounds ($93 million) to replace Alexander Isak. The 6-foot-6 (1.98 meters) striker became an immediate favorite at St. James\u2019 Park by leaping at the far post to plant home a powerful header.<\/p>\n

In other results, Fulham was gifted an own-goal in stoppage time to beat Leeds 1-0, Antoine Semenyo\u2019s penalty secured Bournemouth a 2-1 win over Brighton, Aston Villa was still without a goal this season after a 0-0 draw at Everton, and Crystal Palace and Sunderland also played out a goalless draw.<\/p>\n

Postecoglou\u2019s misery<\/p>\n

Zubimendi, the Spain midfielder recruited from Real Sociedad, volleyed home spectacularly from the edge of the area in the 32nd minute to put Arsenal in front before Gyokeres tapped in a cross from Eberechi Eze \u2014 another summer signing \u2014 to double the lead inside the opening minute of the second half.<\/p>\n

Zubimendi headed in the third in the 79th minute to complete a miserable return to English soccer for Postecoglou, the former Tottenham manager who was hired by Forest on Tuesday as a replacement for the fired Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis week, it\u2019s fair to say, was fairly disruptive for the players,\u201d Postecoglou said. \u201cInternational week as well, so they didn\u2019t get in until Thursday, Friday \u2014 they see a new manager and I\u2019m trying to implement new things.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s only understandable that they probably haven\u2019t got clarity of thought at the moment. But that\u2019s my job to try to bed that (in) over the next few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arsenal has won three of its first four games, losing the other to likely title rival Liverpool.<\/p>\n

Postecoglou was fired by Tottenham in June despite Spurs winning the Europa League title and securing qualification to the Champions League. Domestically, though, Tottenham finished 17th, just one spot above relegation.<\/p>\n

Forest offered little at Emirates Stadium aside from a chested effort from Chris Wood that Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya tipped onto the crossbar.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, it was all Arsenal despite manager Mikel Arteta being without star players Bukayo Saka and William Saliba because of injuries, starting with Declan Rice on the bench and seeing captain Martin Odegaard go off in the 18th minute with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n

AP<\/p>\n

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Arsenal\u2019s Mart\u00edn Zubimendi, right, scores.Credit: AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou got a harsh reintroduction to the Premier League on Saturday. Nick Woltemade\u2019s first taste of English…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-140750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140750","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=140750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}