{"id":176420,"date":"2025-10-03T02:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176420\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T02:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T02:00:07","slug":"ange-postecoglou-remains-undaunted-despite-taunts-from-nottingham-forest-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176420\/","title":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou remains undaunted despite taunts from Nottingham Forest fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ange Postecoglou remained defiant as Nottingham Forest fans called for him to be sacked after barely three weeks in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cq65q824vm3t#Report\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">damaging 3-2 Europa League defeat by Midtjylland<\/a> means Postecoglou is winless in his opening six games in charge of Forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has become the first permanent Forest manager for 100 years to fail to win any of his first six matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Valdemar Byskov scored the visitors&#8217; late third goal at the City Ground, many Forest supporters chanted &#8220;You&#8217;re getting sacked in the morning&#8221; towards the former Tottenham boss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The fans are disappointed. They are allowed to have an opinion on it. I heard their opinion,&#8221; said a downcast Postecoglou, who was also jeered as he walked down the tunnel at full-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Nothing surprises me in football. It&#8217;s the climate we&#8217;re in. It seems that&#8217;s the way things are going. It&#8217;s nothing I can control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was just over four months ago when Postecoglou was lifting this competition&#8217;s trophy with Spurs, but he was dismissed 16 days later, paying the price for a dire domestic campaign. Now he is struggling to get results right at another club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first European game at the City Ground for 29 years ended in crushing disappointment, and the finger of blame was pointed at Postecoglou before the final whistle had blown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rubbing it in, fans then sang in praise of Postecoglou&#8217;s predecessor Nuno Espirito Santo, who is now with West Ham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nuno guided Forest to seventh place in the Premier League last season before being sacked as his relationship with owner Evangelos Marinakis broke down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defeat to Midtjylland came after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cx2jpplkn88t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday&#8217;s 1-0 home loss to Sunderland<\/a> in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These results have changed the mood at Forest, with supporters also turning to question Marinakis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My responsibility is to make sure we get some wins for this football club and progress it,&#8221; said Postecoglou.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would prefer if people were optimistic in their outlook of what I&#8217;m doing. I can only change that by winning games of football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Irrespective, that&#8217;s not going to change the way I&#8217;m taking things on. I really believe in the process of what we&#8217;re doing and I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re far away from being the  team that can eradicate the situation we&#8217;re in at the moment and get the results.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forest spent around \u00a3180m in the summer, looking to build on last season&#8217;s success, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c2en2xnpvlno\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nuno was sacked last month<\/a> after his relationship with Marinakis worsened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Postecoglou replaced him on 9 September, but Forest have failed to sustain last season&#8217;s momentum and struggled against their visitors from the Danish Superliga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Australian head coach believes his team remain close to a breakthrough. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Yes I do, nothing I saw tonight changes any of that,&#8221; Postecoglou said. &#8220;I get the mood around the place isn&#8217;t going to be great, and I understand people&#8217;s attitude at the moment, particularly towards me, but it&#8217;s not unfamiliar territory for me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I believe we are on the right track and when we get through this period of uncertainty we are in, we will be on a good path.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Wood&#8217;s stoppage-time penalty could not save Forest who earlier conceded first-half goals from Ousmane Diao and Mads Bech, either side of Dan Ndoye&#8217;s equaliser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forest drew 2-2 at Real Betis last week and go to Newcastle in the Premier League on Sunday before the international break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Postecoglou said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a really poor outcome from us. It was an important night for many reasons and [a] similar tale, us letting ourselves down in key moments and having a mountain to climb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you allow the opportunity to score every time they get near your goal, it&#8217;s going to be hard to win games of football.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou remained defiant as Nottingham Forest fans called for him to be sacked after barely three weeks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-176420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}