{"id":236972,"date":"2026-01-10T00:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/236972\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:46:09","slug":"nottingham-forest-fa-cup-exit-boss-sean-dyche-rages-over-unacceptable-first-half-at-wrexham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/236972\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest FA Cup exit: Boss Sean Dyche rages over ‘unacceptable’ first half at Wrexham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean Dyche has called for some of his Nottingham Forest<\/a> players to “have a look in the mirror” after an “unacceptable” first-half performance in their FA Cup loss at Wrexham.<\/a><\/p>\n

Forest were the first Premier League side in third-round action and the first casualty at the hands of lower league opposition.<\/p>\n

Having made eight changes from Tuesday’s Premier League win at West Ham<\/a>, Dyche watched in fury as his side trailed their Championship opponents 2-0 at the break.<\/p>\n

They fought back to make it 3-3 and force extra-time at Stok Cae Ras, but were beaten 4-3 in the penalty shootout after Igor Jesus and Omari Hutchinson had their spot-kicks saved by home keeper Arthur Okonkwo.<\/p>\n

“The first half was completely unacceptable,” Dyche told TNT Sports.<\/p>\n

“I let the players know and there are certain individuals that certainly know and they have to look in the mirror.<\/p>\n

“But the strangeness of football, some players that came on in the second half were a credit and we went on and looked like a Premier League side.<\/p>\n

“You can’t do that in the first half, it’s completely unacceptable. It’s unacceptable to me, but I said you have to look in the mirror because that’s unacceptable to the badge as well.<\/p>\n

“They all knock on the door and say, ‘why aren’t I playing?’. Well the evidence is quite honestly there for some, not for all.”<\/p>\n

While Dyche praised those who came off the bench – including two-goal Callum Hudson-Odoi – for acting as a “catalyst” for their second-half comeback, he continued to berate his side’s efforts in a poor first 45 minutes.<\/p>\n

“I could have taken all of them off [at half-time],” he added. “The tempo, the mentality to take the game on was lacking so badly in the first half.<\/p>\n

“Slow, methodical, we have done a lot of work on that. There was basically no intent, no real desire to make a difference. Second half, the changes were terrific.<\/p>\n

“The facts of the matter are we’ve got to make changes. They showed their hand and won’t be knocking on my door saying, ‘why aren’t I playing?’ again, that’s for sure, that first-half group.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Dyche has called for some of his Nottingham Forest players to “have a look in the mirror”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-236972","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\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}