{"id":295075,"date":"2023-10-22T14:24:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T14:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=295075"},"modified":"2023-10-22T14:24:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T14:24:47","slug":"cooper-insists-luton-draw-showed-forests-best-premier-league-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/soccer\/cooper-insists-luton-draw-showed-forests-best-premier-league-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper insists Luton draw showed Forest&apos;s best Premier League football"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Steve Cooper insists Nottingham Forest played their BEST football since returning to the Premier League in Saturday&#8217;s 2-2 draw with Luton &#8211; and admits his side after &#8216;frustrated&#8217; after cheaply surrendering a two-goal lead<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Steve Cooper admitted his frustration\u00a0after Nottingham Forest drew with Luton<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Forest had taken a two-goal lead courtesy of a second-half Chris Wood brace\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>But the newly-promoted side rallied back in stoppage time to secure a point\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper said his side&#8217;s best performance since returning to the Premier League was ruined by Luton&#8217;s fightback in Saturday&#8217;s 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Forest were on course to snap a four-game winless run after Chris Wood&#8217;s second-half double at the City Ground had them 2-0 up with seven minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>But Chiedozie Ogbene threw Luton a late lifeline after Forest failed to clear Hatters debutant Andros Townsend&#8217;s free-kick and substitute Elijah Adebayo fired in a stoppage-time equaliser.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper, whose side are now winless in five, said: &#8216;If that game does not change on a set-piece, that&#8217;s what everyone would be talking about &#8211; how good we were, the football we played, the chances we created and the goals we scored, individual performances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But all of that, and rightly so, will get overlooked because of the way the game has ended and the score line.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/22\/13\/76858913-0-image-a-63_1697976342897.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Steve Cooper claimed Nottingham Forest&#8217;s performance against Luton prior to conceding two late goals was their best since returning to the Premier League<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/22\/13\/76859153-0-image-a-64_1697976404852.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chris Wood netted twice the second half to give the hosts a two-goal lead at the City Ground<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Everybody&#8217;s frustrated. Game-plan was great, the lads carried it out brilliantly. If it finishes 2-0 we&#8217;d be sitting here saying that&#8217;s the best we&#8217;ve played since we&#8217;ve come into the league. It&#8217;s a real pity.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A frustrating afternoon for Forest was compounded with news that absent pair Callum Hudson-Odoi and Divock Origi have joined fellow forward Taiwo Awoniyi on a growing injury list to leave Cooper short of attacking options.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper added: &#8216;(Hudson-Odoi) is out for six weeks, he&#8217;s pulled his hamstring and Divock&#8217;s got a hip injury, so that&#8217;s going to rule him out for another two weeks as well.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Luton, back in the top flight after a 31-year absence, notched their fifth point of the season to edge further clear of the bottom three.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Edwards&#8217; side registered their first league win since promotion via the play-offs at Everton at the end of last month before successive narrow home defeats to Burnley and Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>After Adebayo&#8217;s late leveller denied Forest, a delighted Edwards hailed his players&#8217; never-say-die spirit and insisted it came as no surprise to him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/22\/13\/76859155-0-image-a-65_1697976409147.jpg\" height=\"402\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>But Luton fought back in the closing stages and equalised in stoppage time through Elijah Adebayo<\/p>\n<p>The former Forest Green manager said: &#8216;We&#8217;ve got to keep doing that as what&#8217;s the point in being here if you&#8217;re just going to give up and roll over at 2-0 down?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That just shows we&#8217;re capable of coming back, we&#8217;re capable of sticking our hand in the fire and pulling out a result.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We can lean on that today and we can really use that going forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It doesn&#8217;t surprise me, it doesn&#8217;t surprise me at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I know we&#8217;re capable of it and it&#8217;s good we&#8217;ve shown everyone else we&#8217;re capable of it today.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12658977\/Steve-Cooper-insists-Nottingham-Forest-played-BEST-football-returning-Premier-League-Saturdays-2-2-draw-Luton-admits-frustrated-cheaply-surrendering-two-goal-lead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Cooper insists Nottingham Forest played their BEST football since returning to the Premier League in Saturday&#8217;s 2-2 draw with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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