Having received a vote of confidence from owner Evangelos Marinakis last week, Steve Cooper would have been hoping for a response from his Nottingham Forest side against Aston Villa on Saturday.
However, the Forest boss got exactly the opposite. The Reds were comfortably beaten at Villa Park courtesy of second-half goals from Bertrand Traore and Ollie Watkins as they dropped back into the bottom three.
It was a damning afternoon for the visitors, who had just two shots on target and recorded 34 per cent possession, with errors costing Cooper's men in the defensive third. Jonjo Shelvey gifted Traore his second goal in as many matches with a sloppy pass, while some slack defending allowed Watkins to dink home late on.
