told TNT Sports<\/a>. <\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s been a difficult couple of months here with all the change that\u2019s happened, the bad performances, so we\u2019re happy to get our first win out of (10) games. <\/p>\n
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\u201cThe gaffer came in and said \u2018last season, you (the team) had an identity \u2014 you had a real structure to how you wanted to play\u2019. And he wants to bring that in, and he wants to build on top of that, and I think we showed that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if Friday morning\u2019s result was a \u2018turning point\u2019 for Forest, Gibbs-White said: \u201cYeah, hopefully. But it\u2019s only been one game, we\u2019ve only had a few training sessions. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut definitely, you can feel the morale within the stadium, you can feel the morale within the group at the minute \u2014 it feels a lot higher, it feels a lot more energetic, it feels a lot more positive. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that\u2019s the way it needs to be, and it needs to stay like that for us to continue and try and push forward. So, that\u2019s credit to the manager that\u2019s come in, Sean, he\u2019s installed that into us. We\u2019ve got to keep going and keep maintaining that positive energy.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Not here to question the ex manager” | 05:01<\/p>\n
Forest, who sacked Postecoglou after just 40 days on Sunday, had not won in 10 games stretching back to the opening weekend of the Premier League season.<\/p>\n
But Dyche, who began his playing career at the two-time European champions, roused an immediate impact, even if Forest needed some fortune from VAR interventions to get the better of the Portuguese giants.<\/p>\n
Gibbs-White fired in from the spot on 19 minutes after Jan Bednarek had been penalised for handball.<\/p>\n
Former Southampton defender Bednarek thought he had equalised early in the second half, only for the goal to be ruled out after a VAR review for offside against Samu Aghehowa.<\/p>\n
The video assistant referee also came to the home side\u2019s aid when Nicola Savona was initially booked for diving, only for that decision to be overturned and a second penalty awarded 13 minutes from time.<\/p>\n
Igor Jesus this time slammed home for his first Forest goal at the City Ground. <\/p>\n
“Seen enough fashionistas” Dyche’s whack | 02:04<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Aston Villa was stunned 2-1 by Go Ahead Eagles. <\/p>\n
Villa boss Unai Emery said his side were taught a lesson in the difficulties of European football after their perfect Europa League start came to a surprise end in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
Emery\u2019s men had backed up their status as pre-tournament favourites by beating Bologna and Feyenoord to get their European campaign off to a flying start.<\/p>\n
The visitors started strongly when Evann Guessand fired in his first Villa goal. However, in wild weather conditions, the home side secured a famous win in their first ever experience of group stage European football.<\/p>\n
Mathis Suray\u2019s deflected shot levelled before half-time and Mats Deijl dinked over Emiliano Martinez to give the Dutch Cup winners the lead.<\/p>\n
Emi Buendia was Villa\u2019s match-winner at Tottenham on Sunday, but the Argentine went from hero to villain as he missed a late penalty with the chance to snatch a draw.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday showed us how difficult it is to play in Europe, to play away,\u201d said Emery.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the reason I love football, because football has a lot of different ways to win. You can dominate, like we did, you have chances to score, but if we are conceding a few chances, maybe you can lose. And we did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Nottingham Forest star appears to have delivered a parting jab at Ange Postecoglou after the club won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,13851,1208,6254,2057,122482,141797,53033,2105,141794,24270,53050,3231,141798,16255,12002,22688,3583,2638,36628,132248,141792,141799,141795,1614,141802,141448,85,141800,141796,141801,90941,45073,3586,141793,2062],"class_list":["post-236544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-emiliano-martinez","tag-england","tag-europa-league","tag-europe","tag-european-football","tag-eyebrow-raising-post-match-comment","tag-george-wood","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-go-ahead-eagles","tag-home-side","tag-igor-jesus","tag-jack-jovanovski","tag-jan-bednarek","tag-netherlands","tag-newcastle-united-football-club","tag-newcastle-upon-tyne","tag-northern-europe","tag-nuno-espirito-santo","tag-parting-shot","tag-penalty-spot","tag-portuguese-giants","tag-positive-energy","tag-pre-tournament-favourites","tag-premier-league","tag-real-structure","tag-sean-dyche","tag-sports","tag-stage-european-football","tag-star-fires-parting","tag-training-sessions","tag-two-time-european-champions","tag-unai-emery","tag-united-kingdom","tag-video-assistant-referee","tag-western-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236544","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=236544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}