{"id":424860,"date":"2026-01-23T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424860\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:11:07","slug":"nottingham-forest-europa-league-hopes-in-balance-after-55-costly-seconds-in-braga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424860\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest: Europa League hopes in balance after 55 costly seconds in Braga"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dyche had made seven changes from Saturday’s 0-0 Premier League draw against leaders Arsenal<\/a>. The last time he altered the side so drastically was at Wrexham in the FA Cup.<\/p>\n

After exiting the competition that night, the Forest boss was highly critical of the players who had come into the team but he more forgiving on this occasion.<\/p>\n

“There’s effort there but the cutting edge… we want more of that,” he added.<\/p>\n

“We are in a weird situation where I have to protect certain players. We know the Premier League is massively important but we wanted to do well in this competition and we still do.<\/p>\n

“It’s a fine line, it’s a juggling act. On one hand you want to protect some players and give everyone a chance.”<\/p>\n

Yates felt that Forest were slightly hard done by to lose and that the visitors “controlled the most part of the game”.<\/p>\n

“We are frustrated because I think we did enough to win the game,” he told TNT Sports.<\/p>\n

“We’ve missed an opportunity. Not that we were terrible but we can definitely do better. We have to move on quickly.”<\/p>\n

Former Manchester City<\/a> defender Joleon Lescott saw it slightly differently and highlighted the added blow of Elliot Anderson’s late sending off.<\/p>\n

“The perfect way to sum it up is a mess,” he told TNT Sports. “Collectively it wasn’t good enough.<\/p>\n

“To top it off and lose someone of the stature of Anderson when you have a massive game next week is devastating.<\/p>\n

“You often look at games and wonder if there are any positives. I don’t think there are any tonight.<\/p>\n

“A terrible night, terrible performance on what should have been a marvellous evening.”<\/p>\n

Anderson will miss next week’s final group game and Forest will hope the ban is not extended to include the likely play-off in February.<\/p>\n

Those extra games could be a problem for Forest at such a busy stage of the season as they chase Premier League survival – and going into them without their star midfielder would stretch the squad even further.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Forest will feel it is a situation they could have avoided.<\/p>\n

“You might come away with a draw, but you shouldn’t really lose that game,” Dyche said.<\/p>\n

But in “one minute of madness”, lose it they did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dyche had made seven changes from Saturday’s 0-0 Premier League draw against leaders Arsenal. The last time he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-424860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}