The team on BBC Radio Nottingham's Shut Up And Show More Football have unpicked defeat in the Europa League but ex-Forest defender Brian Laws wants to focus on the positive impact Vitor Pereira has made. Pereira joined the club in February, becoming their fourth manager of the campaign.
Adam Idah believes Swansea City will be better placed to push for promotion next season thanks to their experiences in 2025-26. Swansea are taking stock after an undulating campaign in which early play-off ambitions were replaced by relegation concerns, before an upturn in form under Vitor Matos led to a mid-table finish. The Swans ended up 11th for the second year in a row but Idah says they will aim higher now that a number of players within Matos' squad have got to know the Championship.
What does it say about Wolves that the two head coaches they have dismissed in the past 18 months, Gary O'Neil and Vitor Pereira, are both leading their new sides in European semi-finals? Perhaps that is an over-simplified view given both seemed to reach an untenable position by the time they left, having lost the hearts of supporters in a dramatically quick fall from a position of broad popularity. Pereira was present to oversee the recruitment choices last summer that proved so lamentable.
Mario Dorgeles punished a stoppage-time error from Noah Atubolu as Braga snatched a 2-1 win over Freiburg in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final tie. Substitute Dorgeles was on hand to prod home when Atubolu made a mess of what should have been a routine save from Vitor Carvalho’s shot, meaning Braga have […] The post Braga 2-1 Freiburg: Atubolu makes costly mistake in semi-final following penalty save appeared first on Soccer News.
