If Nuno wants to prioritise defensive solidity initially, he may start with a five-at-the-back system, but it would be unsurprising to see him deploy his more commonly used 4-2-3-1.<\/p>\n
Despite having a general system he opts for, Nuno changes the roles of the players in his system based on their qualities.<\/p>\n
Using the wingers as an example, Nuno would ask Callum Hudson-Odoi and Anthony Elanga to play wide. <\/p>\n
Against Fulham last season the wingers were Elliot Anderson and Nicolas Dominguez, who were instead encouraged to move infield given their skillset.<\/p>\n
Nuno will look to his strongest players, looking to create a team that allow them to do what they do best.<\/p>\n
El Hadji Malick Diouf’s impressive quality as an attacking full-back this season will therefore likely be utilised, with Nuno opting for defensive security elsewhere on the pitch.<\/p>\n
Niclas Fullkrug, Summerville, Soungoutou Magassa, Mateus Fernandes, Paqueta and Max Kilman are all players who also make more sense being used in Nuno’s transition-heavy system.<\/p>\n
In analysing Nuno’s Forest, it is also important to recognise the intelligent tactical tweaks he opted for last season, dispelling the myth that he is strictly a park-the-bus-and-counter coach.<\/p>\n
Forest beat Brighton in the FA Cup quarter-finals last season using five midfielders: Danilo, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Ryan Yates and Dominguez.<\/p>\n
Elanga and Hudson-Odoi were benched for natural midfielders, which allowed Nuno’s men to block the central areas of the pitch, nullifying Brighton.<\/p>\n
These game-specific tweaks often within his general system are a sign of Nuno’s adaptability in recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Nuno wants to prioritise defensive solidity initially, he may start with a five-at-the-back system, but it would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-177423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}