Nuno Espirito Santo fears that the shock between Newcastle and Chelsea Sunday Sunday to distract its stars of the Nottingham forest of their task of beating Leicester.
Forest, Newcastle and Chelsea are looking for a place in the Champions League for next season and the confrontation of St James’ Park could have a huge impact in Forest hopes.
The 12 -hour kick -off time means that the match will end shortly before the start of the forest against Leicester already linked to 2:15 p.m. and Nuno has recognized that the result will influence the mood of his team and that of the forest supporters.
He said: “The closing stages of their game will coincide with our pre-match warm-up. No matter what you say, the first thing the players will do on their return is to try to find out what happened.
“They will say” what was the scoring? “And it will only be the players and the staff. It will be nearly 30,000 people at the stadium that will be stuck on their phones. It is a big gap between the end of the Newcastle-Chelsea game and the start of ours.
Nuno Espirito Santo fears that forest players will be distracted by Newcastle against Chelsea
Forest, Newcastle and Chelsea are looking for a place in the Champions League next season
Chelsea and Newcastle are level on points because they come with the forest for the champions League squares
“You can say” OK, it doesn’t matter “but it is. With phones and televisions, it is impossible to keep the players’ information, so it is better to know. We cannot control it.
Planning of television matches is a constant frustration for managers, even the world broadcasting offers of the Premier League offer clubs a huge expenditure power.
Nuno added: “Since my arrival in the United Kingdom (in 2017), we have been talking about this problem – not only me, but all managers. But we are ignored.
