{"id":133397,"date":"2023-12-20T15:26:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/20\/forest-turn-to-nuno-in-bid-for-premier-league-survival\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T15:26:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:26:30","slug":"forest-turn-to-nuno-in-bid-for-premier-league-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/20\/forest-turn-to-nuno-in-bid-for-premier-league-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest turn to Nuno in bid for Premier League survival \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Nuno Espirito Santo has succeeded Steve Cooper as Nottingham Forest boss.<\/p>\n<p>Nuno, 49, made his name in English football by leading Wolves into the Premier League and then Europe during an impressive stint between 2017 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He also briefly managed Tottenham before a spell at Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese coach replaces Cooper, who was axed yesterday after a heroic period in which he led the club back to the top flight.<\/p>\n<p>But a run of one win in 13 matches saw the Tricky Trees fall to 17th in the league, just five points clear of relegation.<\/p>\n<p>And a 2-0 defeat to Tottenham last Friday was enough to convince owner Evangelos Marinakis that a change needed to be made.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek businessman will hope Nuno, who has signed two-and-a-half-year contract at the City Ground, can recreate his Molineux heroics in Nottingham.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to Nottingham Forest, Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo \ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nottingham Forest (@NFFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFFC\/status\/1737408769255002167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ALRygQVTwuc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sports News in Twi: Can Chelsea bounce back this season?\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ALRygQVTwuc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuno Espirito Santo has succeeded Steve Cooper as Nottingham Forest boss. Nuno, 49, made his name in English football by leading Wolves into the Premier League and then Europe during an impressive stint between 2017 and 2021. He also briefly managed Tottenham before a spell at Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia. The Portuguese coach replaces Cooper, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Forest turn to Nuno in bid for Premier League survival \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/20\/forest-turn-to-nuno-in-bid-for-premier-league-survival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Forest turn to Nuno in bid for Premier League survival \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nuno Espirito Santo has succeeded Steve Cooper as Nottingham Forest boss. 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