Nottingham Forest begin Glasner era against Leeds | OneFootball

Nottingham Forest begin the Oliver Glasner era at the City Ground against Leeds today.

According to Telegraph, Glasner is the fifth head coach in 12 months and there is a genuine sense this appointment could be a game-changer. The Austrian arrives after highly successful spells with Crystal Palace and Eintracht Frankfurt, and early signs suggest he means business.

One to watch is James McAtee, a £24m signing from Manchester City last summer, whose first season stuttered but who has been revitalised under Glasner. The head coach has called him the "winner of pre-season", and Forest will not pursue a replacement for £116m midfielder Elliot Anderson.

Elsewhere, Hull City, who scraped into the Championship play-offs on the final day last season and won promotion with a 95th-minute Wembley winner, have stunned Michael Carrick’s Manchester United 2-0 at the MKM Stadium.

At Portman Road, work to install electronic turnstiles sits behind a temporary black facade, and the match programme features Gary O’Neil. With Kieran McKenna gone after leading Ipswich Town back to the Premier League following a one-season return to the Championship, uncertainty hangs in the Suffolk air.

Ipswich fans are making their way to Portman Road for their Premier League opener against Sunderland. For Forest, history is unkind, the last six permanent managers lost their first Premier League match with the club, and the last to win an opener was Dave Bassett in 1997.

Source: Telegraph

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