Paul Williams delighted with dominant Nottingham Forest win over Fulham
Saturday 23 April 2016 21:58, UK
Nottingham Forest interim manager Paul Williams was pleased his side's improvement led to his first win as manager in their dominating performance against Fulham.
Goals from captain Henri Lansbury (two) and Robert Tesche were enough to secure a 3-1 victory for the travelling side as they moved up to 17th in the Championship table.
Williams said: "We've had some really good performances in recent weeks, I know results haven't shown it, but now we need to focus and to fight for the last two games.
"Today, the play [and the training] paid off, we deserved our result today. I thought the referee was fair to both sides."
Williams has been in charge of Forest since Dougie Freedman was sacked in mid-March, but he is not thinking about whether he will be given an opportunity to stay on at the City Ground after the season has finished.
He said: "I am tasked with taking the side to the end of the season and that is what I am concentrating on. I want to give the fans, who were fantastic today, a good end to the season.
"The players have been fantastic. We have made little changes to players' positions since taking over. I have a philosophy and thankfully it is beginning to pay off.
"It is all credit to every single player out there today, they deserved that performance.
"In training, we have been working on winning the ball. If we can win the ball further up the pitch then we can attack. The lads are getting us up the pitch now and that is really pleasing now."
Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic was disappointed by his side's display, which included Fulham giving away their 12th penalty of the season. But the Cottagers boss was not surprised by the "poor performance".
He said: "We don't show quality with the ball or without the ball. We make chances but generally we were very, very soft as a team. This is a habit for us. It is not strange giving a penalty, it is a bad habit.
"We give them so much presence. We tried in the second half to play in a different way but during the game we scored and made chances. Right now, we are far off how I want my team playing.
"We are sleeping when passing the ball back. We need to concentrate and be stronger.
"We tried to attack in wide positions, but we don't show quality behind the ball.
"If we are a little bit more concentrating then we can stop letting goals in.
"We are working on this always but we have not found the balance between the defence and the attack."
