- Manchester City will face Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup semi-finals on Sunday
- The side of Nuno Espirito Santo can frustrate City by again exciting the midfielder
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A semi-final of the FA Cup is additional proof that the Nottingham forest is back in time. These special occasions were common at the clog’s peak, but this big club did not appreciate such exhilarating days for over 30 years.
It was an incredible season for the Nuno Espirito Santo team, fighting for a place in the Champions League, but also the chance to lift a trophy that even the big Brian Cloud never managed to Forest.
It is not only a day to go out in Wembley and signal the fans – it is a massive opportunity for the forest and a game they can win.
They must show their killer instinct and the way they occurred against Tottenham was the general rehearsal to face Manchester City.
It would have been a satisfactory moment for Nuno to take over his old club and he proves that he developed a lot tactically from his wolves while creating a huge spirit, desire and determination among his troops.
Against the Spurs, they showed once again how they are ready to suffer without the ball and bring their sea of red body to the edge of the ready to strike when the moment occurs.
A FA Cup semi-final is additional proof that the Nottingham forest is back in time
Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola, faces a tactical dilemma before Wembley’s confrontation
Nuno Espirito Santo can pack the midfielder if Guardiola uses full back Nico O’Reilly and Matheus Nunes (Center)
They are like a boxer who sits on the strings, but when they see an opening landing the ko.
Nuno made smart adjustments to put more bodies in the midfield to fight Tottenham’s backs in the process of going. He started sitting the fields of field Danilo and Nicolas Dominguez, and sacrificing the Callum Hudson-Odoi winger, Elliot Anderson and Morgan Gibbs-White picked up his full back.
When they attacked, Harry Toffolo gave them a width of the left back while Gibbs-White was moving on the front line, and the forest broke at a breathtaking pace. Rapid Anthony Elaga started at the top alongside the ruthless finisher Chris Wood in a pair of split attackers.
The forest forced spurs in large areas, which led to a record of 51 cross – most of a first league match this season – which were meat and drinks for the central back of the forest.
Nuno can seek to pack the midfielder again if Pep Guardiola uses complete files Nico O’Reilly and Matheus Nunes as he did during the recent victory of City against Everton.
They patrolled the center of the midfielder in Goodison and allowed Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin de Bruyne to operate on the front line, but have always found time and space so that Nunes advanced and crosses the winner of O’Reilly.
Guardiola adds more variety to the way he uses his full back and against villa, they stuck to the sidelines and gave the city width.
Bernardo Silva, who, in the last match, had started right, was sitting alongside Mateo Kovacic while Nunes has marked a very important goal.
The manager said that Nunes was not smart enough to play in the midfield, but it was essential to help and mark the winner in the last two games in the city to keep them in the mixture for a Champions League place. I expect him to be about confidence in Wembley.
There is still a vulnerability about the city that we have never seen before in Guardiola’s mandate. If its full backs go too far on the field, this will leave space so that the forest operates when they rise forward, as they have made with great effect all season.
