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Sky Bet Championship: Nottingham Forest coach Eastick calm over poor form

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Image: Brian Eastick: Confident Forest will improve

Nottingham Forest are coming under increasing pressure to address their stuttering Sky Bet Championship form - but first-team coach Brian Eastick is not too concerned just yet.

The Reds host Brentford on Wednesday night looking to halt a run of eight league matches without a win, following a dismal 3-0 defeat at Huddersfield at the weekend.

Eastick has been in the game long enough to know that there is increasingly less and less patience in football and he says manager Stuart Pearce is aware of the urgent need for a change in fortunes.

"There is more pressure now, the demands of the game are greater now and there is less patience," Eastick told local reporters.

"Things can change very quickly, but we have to give ourselves a chance. Conceding 10 goals in four games is relegation form.

"We are not a relegation side, don't get me wrong. We are a promotion team - when we are playing well.

"We have some good players in this team but the confidence has ebbed away just a little bit.

"It is nothing that a win would not put right. If we get a win on Wednesday, you watch, it will come back."

Despite Forest's poor recent run, Brentford boss Mark Warburton is under no illusions about the size of the task facing him and his players.

"They've had a rough time of late but we are very respectful of the size of club they are and the size and quality of squad they have available to them," he told the club's official website.

"But we are not playing their history, we have to go there full of confidence and self-belief and impose ourselves on the game."

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