Forest head coach says win should boost confidence
Saltor says Spurs staff have ‘support from everyone’
Vítor Pereira wants his Nottingham Forest players to carry the feeling of “champions” after triumphing 3-0 at Tottenham but warned his squad victory does not ensure their Premier League status. The Forest head coach said his players should take confidence from damaging a direct rival’s hopes of staying up but stressed they must avoid complacency.
Tottenham’s assistant coach, Bruno Saltor, acknowledged his players cracked under the “weight of the game”. Saltor was on post-match duties after their head coach, Igor Tudor, was informed of a family bereavement after the defeat. With three weeks until Tottenham – who are now the only Premier League side without a victory this calendar year – travel to Sunderland for their next league game, Tudor’s future is in serious jeopardy.
“When you win a game, you get confidence,” Pereira said. “When you come here and you win 3-0, a clean sheet, of course it is something important for confidence. ‘We can, we can, we can.’ The big mistake is thinking that we came here and won and then the next game: ‘We won the [last] game.’ We have seven more games to win. We need to keep the mentality and the team spirit playing as a fighter, feeling like champions inside of us.”
