Head coach Steve Cooper was left frustrated by a number of Nottingham Forest players not making the most of the opportunity afforded to them in a woeful FA Cup defeat at Blackpool.
The Welshman named a completely different line-up to the one which had toppled Southampton in midweek. And that meant rare starts for some of his squad at Bloomfield Road, with the chance to catch the manager’s eye.
Few of those brought into the XI pressed their case to retain their places in the Premier League - or against Wolverhampton Wanderers in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night - however. And while Cooper won’t make snap judgements based on one performance alone, he was left “deflated” by what transpired in a dismal 4-1 thumping on the west coast.
