“But obviously we are still looking for improvement and we are not perfect. We are human beings and we want to do our best for the club.
“We want to be performing on the absolute highest level, and we need each other at their best and it’s a process, but we keep going and focus on the next one. It will be another difficult one at the weekend again [versus West Ham United], so onto the next.”
Read the rest of the post-match interview with the captain below…
On whether it felt like the ‘biggest win’ of the season…
It feels definitely nice to win here. It’s a very difficult ground, in my opinion, to come. A very poor first half from all of us with and without the ball. I think you saw the desire to not concede, that was obviously maybe the only positive thing. I think in the second half we turned it around and we were much more comfortable on the ball and without the ball as well.
We know Forest can be dangerous from set-pieces and the quality they have with the confidence they had from their midweek win. I think we did well, especially in the second half. At the end it’s just a great feeling to win and be on the good side of a late winner for once in a long time.
On whether being ‘braver’ on the ball made the difference in the second half…
It’s a combination of that, I think. Obviously, it all starts with winning your battles, winning the challenges and when you have the ball make the right decisions. It’s not always easy to do that, especially in a first half where a lot of players are still fresh and they run and they press and go one-v-one and if you are late in challenges or in possession or lose the ball too easily then they create momentum.
We did that much better in the second half and we found our triangles; we rotated well in the middle and had our wingers a lot of times in the one-v-ones. I don’t think we created real clear-cut chances, but obviously Hugo [Ekitike]’s was massive and he should have scored. In the end we got the winner and that’s the most important thing.