{"id":264186,"date":"2025-09-29T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/264186\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:02:11","slug":"premier-league-nuno-set-to-take-charge-of-first-west-ham-game-is-he-the-right-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/264186\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League: Nuno set to take charge of first West Ham game – is he the right man?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is Nuno’s style of play?published at 14:35 BST<\/p>\n

14:35 BST<\/p>\n

Everton v West Ham (20:00 BST)<\/p>\n

Umir Irfan<\/strong>
Football tactics correspondent<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

At Wolves, Nuno Espirito Santo was known for his five-at-the-back system. However, Nottingham Forest last season began most games in a 4-2-3-1 formation.<\/p>\n

Direct attacks are a hallmark of Nuno’s style and Forest would progress it centrally by launching it directly into striker Chris Wood.<\/p>\n

His hold-up play provided an ideal backboard to aim for before attacking midfielders, particularly Morgan Gibbs-White, picked up the knockdowns.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, Forest would play quickly down the flanks, overloading the wide areas. They often vacated the middle of the pitch, not risking progressing the ball through the midfielders.<\/p>\n

Whether direct into the striker or down the flanks, the message was the same – to play the ball up the pitch early and with speed.<\/p>\n

Last season Forest were the most direct side in the league, with a direct speed of play of 2.04 metres per second progressed upfield. However, they were weakest defensively in the last 15 minutes of games, conceding 12 goals last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is Nuno’s style of play?published at 14:35 BST 14:35 BST Everton v West Ham (20:00 BST) Umir…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":264187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-264186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115288431076281540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}