Dyche: One minute of madness cost Forest the game

Sean Dyche believes “one minute of madness” lost Nottingham Forest the game against Braga in the Europa League.

Just 55 seconds after Morgan Gibbs-White saw his penalty saved, Ryan Yates inadvertently turned the ball home into his own net following a low cross from Ricardo Horta.

While Forest saw their chances of finishing in the top eight of the league phase slip away with a 1-0 defeat, matters were made worse when Elliot Anderson was shown a red card for dissent in second-half stoppage time.

The Tricky Trees became the first English club in Europa League history to miss a penalty and score an own goal in a single match.

Braga, meanwhile, became just the second side in the competition’s history (since 2009-10) to win a match despite failing to record a shot on target, after Lazio beat Nice in November 2017.

Dyche, who made seven changes from their last Europa League match, criticised the players who received rare starts in their FA Cup defeat to Wrexham, but he insisted that was not the case this time around.

“There is effort here, that killer edge, we want more of that. Of course, we are in that weird situation where we have to protect players who are playing a lot of football,” Dyche told TNT Sports.

“We want to do well in this competition, we still do, of course. It is a fine line - it is a juggling act. You want to give everyone a chance to showcase themselves.

“They are working ever so hard in training. To come here, we suspect to step on and that is the kind of thing we are waiting for, that feeling to take the game on, and it never really occurred.

“You might come away with a draw, but you shouldn't really lose that game.

“One minute of madness cost us the game. I don't think they hardly had a real chance, then we had a goalmouth scramble and even that can't go in.”