{"id":419755,"date":"2026-02-11T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419755\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:01:10","slug":"nottingham-forest-problems-or-solutions-forest-battle-the-drop-under-sean-dyche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419755\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest: Problems or solutions? Forest battle the drop under Sean Dyche"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dyche has not been helped by injuries with Chris Wood – who played for him at Burnley<\/a> – unavailable since his appointment.<\/p>\n

Last season’s 20-goal top scorer had knee surgery in December<\/a> with no timeframe given on his recovery.<\/p>\n

Matz Sels is also sidelined until March with a groin injury, meaning Forest have used four different goalkeepers in the league this season.<\/p>\n

Stefan Ortega made his debut against Leeds<\/a> after Angus Gunn replaced Sels mid-way through the 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gunn is now in line to play in the Europa League play-off at Fenerbahce next week with just the Scotland international – a free transfer from Norwich – and Sels included in Forest’s European squad.<\/p>\n

John Victor is out for the season with a knee injury<\/a>, having replaced Sels for five games before Christmas. It comes after Sels did not miss a minute last season, en route to winning the Golden Glove with Arsenal<\/a>‘s David Raya.<\/p>\n

Key centre-back Murillo has battled hamstring problems, the Leeds<\/a> defeat the latest game he has missed, while Nicolo Savona has a knee problem. <\/p>\n

Yet, despite any mitigating circumstances, Forest have failed to pull clear of the drop and there will always be questions.<\/p>\n

However, Dyche came out fighting on Monday<\/a>, railing against the suggestion his position was uncertain. <\/p>\n

“On the same day I was [nominated for] Manager of the Month, people are saying I should be sacked,” he said. “That is a new one on me – and I have been doing this a long time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dyche has not been helped by injuries with Chris Wood – who played for him at Burnley –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-419755","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419755","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=419755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}