That is the view of manager Nuno Espírito Santo, who spoke about his team’s 3-0 loss on Wednesday.
As they prepare to take on Manchester United next, Santo felt that Forest could have gotten something from the City game.
“When you lose 3-0 and you say it was a good performance, maybe people don’t understand. So I won’t say it was a bad performance because there are positive things for us in the game,” said the Portuguese head coach.
“Of course there were a lot of bad things and mistakes. But the idea of us facing City, knowing the difficulties we were going to face, we challenged ourselves to try to press and go for the game.
“We had chances. We didn’t achieve and we lost. But us internally, I think we come out proud of ourselves because we tried. For sure, this game will allow us to grow.”
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