A 3-time Champions League winner, throughout a glittering profession, Navas is anticipated to remain in aim for the doubtless pivotal residence sport in opposition to Southampton per week on Monday.
When requested if Navas may have completed higher for Brentford’s targets, Cooper replied: “I simply assume that now is just not the time to discuss anybody. It is about actual togetherness and about sticking collectively.”
Forest are battling plenty of accidents, with £16 million signing Danilo set to endure a scan on the hamstring concern which compelled him off late within the Brentford defeat.
Cooper is already with out Scott McKenna, Chris Wooden, Neco Williams, Willy Boly and Omar Richards for the rest of the season.
Forest proprietor Marinakis livid at newest abysmal defeat
By John Percy on the Gtech Neighborhood Stadium
If Nottingham Forest’s tour of the Premier League goes to final for only one season, the autopsy from Steve Cooper will focus solely on their poor away kind.
Forest have secured 24 of their 30 factors at residence and this was a thirteenth defeat of the marketing campaign away from the Metropolis Floor, leaving the membership deep in relegation hassle.
Josh Dasilva’s contentious injury-time winner sentenced Cooper to a different chastening expertise within the capital and retains Brentford’s hopes of European qualification faintly flickering.
Forest stay at risk of dropping into the Championship and they’re only a level above the relegation zone, forward of a monumental showdown at residence to Southampton per week on Monday.
With away outcomes so abysmal, the strain is all the time on Forest to select up victories in entrance of their very own supporters.
This felt like one other self-inflicted defeat, with late controversy, and Forest proprietor Evangelos Marinakis was understood to be livid.
Although Marinakis is extremely unlikely to dismiss Cooper at such a crucial stage of the season, he was seething with the pinnacle coach’s substitutions and his administration of the squad.
Brentford’s winner was confirmed after a Var assessment, with substitute Yoann Wissa showing to be in an offside place, and got here at a time when Forest had solely ten males on the pitch, with goalscorer Danilo off the sector and Cooper having used all his of substitutions.
