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Nottingham Forest boss Cooper demands more after PSV defeat

Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper wants more from his players after their preseason defeat at PSV Eindhoven on Sunday.

PSV won 1-0 on Sunday, with Cooper admitting they need greater improvement.

Cooper said, "Some players were making their first start, Morgan, Woody, Ola played his first game for the club as well. it's still a good group, but certainly a sort of mix-and-match group in terms of player status and with all of that in mind, I thought we were definitely better than what we showed certainly against Leeds.

"I thought some of our build-up play was good. I thought we got in positions we didn't capitalise on and we didn't make the most of the good positions.

"It was a really poor goal that we conceded with, two clear headers from the set piece, and then the defenders there on the end of the box, but we've given a team that's going to play in Europe in the next couple of weeks not much, really.

"Defensively, I thought we were fairly sound on the whole and sticking to our pressing strategy so definitely positives to take from the game but I'll always want more and we need more for sure."

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