Nottingham Forest boss Oliver Glasner has been speaking to the media before Saturday’s Premier League game against Aston Villa at Villa Park (kick-off 15:00 BST).

Here are the key lines from his news conference:

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• Nicolo Savona remains the only player sidelined with his knee inury. The defender has faced a few set-backs but has “reacted fine” to slow rehabilitation.

• Glasner said he is not happy with the explanation given by the Premier League to rule out Forest’s goal against Tottenham last week for a handball by Neco Williams. However, the Austrian accepted the decision as it is a “democracy”, and says the incident is “in the past”.

• Forest have scored two goals in three Premier League matches, and Glasner says his team are missing “the final bit” in goalscoring situations and his solution is to create more of those situations.

• On squad depth, Glasner said: “Every position is occupied by two players. We have plenty of options which is positive, the new players are doing well and we can see they’re training well every week. We can see how much of a positive impact Xaver Schlager has had so far. We want competition everywhere.”

• Glasner also added that he was “surprised” by Schlager’s start to the season after a difficult end to the 2025-26 campaign for the midfielder, and that his biggest strength is “trying to improve”.

• On Jair Cunha receiving his first national team call-up for Brazil, he said: “It’s a huge achievement for him at 21-years-old. You can see how quickly things can happen in football. We’ve been together for around two months and from day one he was listening, working hard and asking what he can improve.”

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