{"id":751595,"date":"2026-02-09T00:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/751595\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T00:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:03:12","slug":"nottm-forests-sean-dyche-under-pressure-after-leeds-united-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/751595\/","title":{"rendered":"Nott’m Forest’s Sean Dyche under pressure after Leeds United loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leeds United<\/a> put Nottingham Forest to the sword on Friday night, and it could lead to Sean Dyche answering with his position at the club soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

United\u2019s relegation scrap looks set to remain an incredibly tight race in the final months of the window. A huge meeting at home to Nottingham Forest<\/a> yielded all three points for Leeds against a direct rival.<\/p>\n

Leeds\u2019 hope of being further clear of the bottom three were dashed 24 hours later, though, as West Ham dispatched of Burnley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sean Dyche reacts with serious bitterness as Leeds United beat Nottingham Forest<\/p>\n

From minute one up until Lorenzo Lucca\u2019s goal, Leeds were comfortably the better side overall. The three goals we scored were proof, cutting the away side open three times to deservedly take maximum points.<\/p>\n

Sean Dyche, though, sounded incredibly bitter at full time. He lamented his defence rather than the quality of Ilia Gruev\u2019s ball to Jayden Bogle<\/a>, suggesting that Leeds weren\u2019t knocking on the door despite hitting the crossbar two minutes before scoring.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew they would start fast, we warned the players about that, how they\u2019ve gone about their business here,\u201d he said, per the YEP<\/a>. \u201cWe did suggest they would do that. The frustrating thing for me, we were having our best spell and it\u2019s such a poor goal. We were asking questions of them, Igor [Jesus] has a good chance, we\u2019re asking a lot more questions and concede such a poor goal. Straight ball over the top, we\u2019re trying to play offside, and distances are wrong, covering positions are wrong, and that\u2019s very frustrating for me as manager.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dyche then suggested his side responded well to Leeds\u2019 opener. Even though, we scored four minutes later through Noah Okafor.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The response was alright] it was just the second goal,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou can\u2019t concede another poor goal. The game was pretty, pretty even at 1-0 down. They didn\u2019t find that edge that they did so early in the game. Two nil down at half-time is not easy in the Premier League. And the third is the one that really kills you, because by then you\u2019re looking at it going, okay the biggest challenge is to nick the next goal but you go 2-1 down and all of a sudden everything changes. But we didn\u2019t do that. We gave away another really, really poor goal defensively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sean Dyche facing sudden sack pressure at Nottingham Forest after Leeds United defeat<\/p>\n

The shelf life of a Nottingham Forest manager appears one of the shortest in the division under trigger-happy owner Evangelos Marinakis.<\/p>\n

Already on his third of the season after ditching Nuno Espirito Santo and then Ange Postecoglou, the pressure is mounting on Dyche now.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to talkSPORT<\/a>, who report that Marinakis was expecting a better turn of results from Dyche\u2019s appointment.<\/p>\n

It leaves Dyche now looking to a midweek trip to Molineux against 20th-placed Wolves to turn his fortunes around. Anything but three points against the side sitting bottom will raise further questions over his position at the City Ground.<\/p>\n

Are Nottingham Forest staring at drop into Premier League relegation zone?<\/p>\n

A three-point gap to the bottom three is sure to have Forest fans looking over their shoulders, if they weren\u2019t already.<\/p>\n

Their performance against Leeds, despite the amount of quality they had on the pitch, is so alarming for them.<\/p>\n

If they can\u2019t establish any dominance against a Leeds side missing a couple of vital players, then you have to worry for them.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say we don\u2019t keep looking over our shoulders too. But, having confidently played Forest off the park, we should have optimism that we can build a bigger gap in the run-in.<\/p>\n

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