On Thursday night, the first round of Championship play-offs get under way. Nottingham Forest will host Swansea.
Despite Forest’s poor performance against Blackpool in the play-offs last year the midlands team still look confident.
Forest manager, Billy Davies, has claimed that their defeat to Blackpool last year is not in their minds and that Forest are a different animal this year. “We all know what the play-offs are like- they are a lottery.” said Davies. “It is luck, it’s refereeing decisions and if you get the breaks you can get there. We won’t think about last year and take nothing away from Blackpool- they deserve an awful lot of credit for what they did and what they have done.”
When the press asked Brendan Rodgers, the Swansea manager, whether he will take a different approach to the play-offs he replied, “No, we will just continue with no pressure. Monday we will be back preparing.” he added “I just need to keep taking the pressure off the players because of how we play, trying to make 600, 700, 800 passes a game, you have to be confident and you have to want the ball. Thankfully I have players who do that. We play how we train and we’ll continue to train how we have been and focus on these two play-off games”
Swansea’s cool attitude may play in their favour as Nottingham Forest are bound to feel under pressure after their 6-4 play-off defeat last season.
Written by Thomas Munson
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