'We'll be unstoppable' - Gibbs-White waiting for Forest to click

"This is what comes pinch trying to get to nan top. You're ever going to person blips, but erstwhile we get that first triumph we'll beryllium unstoppable."

The assurance oozing from Morgan Gibbs-White suggests location is nary deficiency of belief astatine Nottingham Forest.

They are still waiting for their first triumph nether Ange Postecoglou aft his opening 5 games and look FC Midtjylland successful nan Europa League connected Thursday.

Postecoglou replaced Nuno Espirito Santo past month, Nuno having taken Forest backmost to Europe for nan first clip successful 30 years, pinch a stated purpose to triumph trophies.

Having won nan Europa League pinch Tottenham past play - earlier being sacked 16 days later - 60-year-old Postecoglou knows advancement successful shot is not ever linear, a sentiment shared by Gibbs-White.

"The measurement to nan apical isn't ever beautiful and it's not ever glory. You've seen successful nan past period and a half here, we've had a alteration of manager," says nan England international.

"There's been a batch that's happened wrong nan club. We haven't sewage a triumph yet, truthful it's not each emergence and glory. We've been done nan relegation times and we had a awesome play past play and we're successful Europe now.

"The head has taken good to nan group we've taken good to him. We judge successful him and his ideas. He's good respected wrong nan group and I deliberation you tin spot really we're playing retired there.

"It's evidently been a difficult moment, a difficult time. But erstwhile we get that first triumph we'll beryllium fine."

It is nan first European lucifer astatine nan City Ground since a Bayern Munich squad including Jurgen Klinsmann, Oliver Kahn and Lothar Matthaus thrashed them 5-1 successful March 1996.

Forest person not returned since that quarter-final, which Bayern won 7-2 connected aggregate earlier going connected to triumph nan competition.

Midtjylland get pursuing Forest's opening 2-2 tie astatine Real Betis past week.

That a constituent successful their opening European crippled could beryllium seen arsenic a disappointment - Anthony levelled for nan hosts pinch 5 minutes near - shows really acold Forest person travel successful nan 15 months since beating relegation connected nan last time successful 2023-24.

And aft a procreation away, European shot is what will beryllium demanded astatine Forest going forward, thing not mislaid connected Postecoglou.

"I'm really privileged. That's connected nan backmost of nan activity of guys for illustration Coops (Steve Cooper) and Nuno that person sewage america to this point. I'm nan beneficiary of that, and I don't return that lightly," he said.

"It is simply a privilege, but it's 1 I'm looking guardant to - nan work of starring nan nine backmost successful Europe for nan first clip successful 30 years and hopefully making it a run to remember. More importantly, it's thing this shot nine wants to do connected a regular basis, each season.

"The European nights are ever special. On nan backmost of a 30-year absence, I've sewage a emotion it is going to beryllium 1 of those nights."

Context is important successful looking astatine nan slow start.

Postecoglou's opening 3-0 conclusion by Arsenal past period came aft 1 afloat training convention pinch nan full squad pursuing nan world break.

There person been glimpses of nan free-flowing, high-tempo measurement he wants to play, but it has truthful acold been incapable to get results, a 1-1 Premier League tie astatine Burnley coming aft a precocious illness successful nan Carabao Cup astatine Swansea.

Regardless of nan 5 games, Postecoglou has been successful complaint only 22 days pinch constricted clip connected nan training pitch, meaning location are nary soul concerns complete nan winless run, pinch belief they conscionable request time.

"A cardinal point nan head said is, erstwhile everyone is connected committee pinch nan style of play and nan tactics, nan quicker nan results will come," full-back Neco Williams told Sky Sports past week.

"That is conscionable connected america now to get utilized to his strategies and nan caller style of play, which is evidently different from our erstwhile manager. The quicker that comes together, nan quicker we will get results."

Postecoglou himself remains definite of those results erstwhile nan squad get utilized to his style pursuing almost 2 years nether Nuno.

There is, truthful far, small quality erstwhile looking astatine nan statistic - moreover if nan expansiveness of nan squad is evident.

Under Nuno, who besides managed 3 convention games this season, Forest had 57% possession compared to 58% nether Postecoglou.

Forest person made 146 much passes complete nan 3 convention matches pinch nan caller head and person had 44 shots - compared to 31 nether Nuno - though they person scored only once.

They person faced much shots (39) successful Postecoglou's games than nether Nuno (30) but nan expected goals (xG) against has decreased from 5.0 to 3.9.

When looking astatine Postecoglou's Tottenham v Nuno's Forest past season, location is simply a clear quality successful immoderate cardinal metrics.

Spurs made 11 errors starring to goals, compared to Forest's four, while their xG against of 64.3 was nan 4th highest successful nan league, pinch Forest 12th connected 49.6.

Forest made 12,956 passes successful 2024-25, a convention low, while Spurs were sixth pinch 18,248.

Spurs besides had much possession, much expected goals and much crosses - showing nan attacking quality of Postecoglou's style - but Forest vanished seventh, 27 points up of 17th-placed Tottenham.

"We request to support processing our football," said Postecoglou. "It's not because it eases immoderate benignant of pressure, but I really judge erstwhile everything clicks and we're up and moving we're going to beryllium a apical squad and nan results will flow.

"I would dislike we get to nan business extremity of nan twelvemonth and we look astatine this shape and wish if we'd had a mates much wins we'd beryllium successful a awesome position. I don't want to beryllium chasing ourselves.

"I person nary uncertainty nan results will travel and we will beryllium a compelling squad to watch and successful nan measurement we play our football, and results will travel that.

"It's important successful this early shape you do triumph games, truthful erstwhile it does each click you are successful a position to person success."