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Nottingham Forest will 'attack' Manchester United Cup semi, vows Steve Cooper

Steve Cooper says Nottingham Forest "really want to attack" their Carabao Cup semi-final against Manchester United that will see them play the two legs back-to-back over the next fortnight.

Forest host United in the first leg on Wednesday, then will head to Old Trafford for the second encounter a week later having not had a game in between due to exiting the FA Cup in the third round 4-1 at Blackpool.

Boss Cooper said today: "It's not been an easy ride for sure to get to the semi-final, and we’ve treated it like every other game, one we want to do well in and win.

"Unfortunately we’re out of the FA Cup, we’re not very proud of that and the way we went about it, but these two games now fall in a two-week Premier League break.

"There’s enough recovery and preparation time to be ready for these games, there’s no doubt about that. The two games have actually come at a good time.

"It’s a semi-final, we really want to commit to it, we really want to attack it. Obviously it’s Man United, it’s over two legs, incredibly tough games – but ones we want to have no regrets about.

"We’re in the semi-final of an important cup. I think we should go into it thinking they don’t come along very often, so treat it like it might be the last one.

"There’s a real good feeling about the semi-final in the city, the stadium will obviously be the atmosphere that it’s been every single game so far this season, which has been incredible, and we should really embrace that."

Forest played Erik ten Hag’s United away in the league in December, losing 3-0, and Cooper added: "We felt that we didn’t play with enough belief and courage in the game.

"It was going to be hard whatever, and we might have played better and still got nothing out of the game. But we did

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