Nuno Espirito Santo acknowledged Nottingham Forest were taught "a lesson" by Newcastle United, even if he did not criticise his side following a 3-1 defeat at the City Ground. (More Football News)
Forest had won their previous three matches to climb to th♛ird in the Premier League, and Murillo's opener had them on course for another victory.
But that goal came against the run of play, and Newc♕astle continued to dominate, eventually equ🌃alising through Alexander Isak.
Forest, who have been so solid at the back this season, went chasing victory and were instead caught🧔 out as both Joelinton and Harvey Barnes scored on the break.
Those counter-attacks have been a large ꦆpart of Forest's own attacking identity previously, and Nuno was full of praise for how ruthlessly Newcastle executed that tactic.
"I cannot say that was a bad performance, th🎀at is totally out of the question," the Forest boss told BBC Sport.
"We played against a very good team that was able to control us a🥂nd then hurt us in the way we've been doing. It is a lesson f🐬or us to learn.
"I just have to recognise that today we played a good team, who wer🌞e better than us in🌺 many, many moments.
"There's nothing to say about the [Forest] players. The cha♕racter and belief was ther꧑e."
Newcastle were a little unfortunate to trail at half-t𒀰ime, having had seven shots to Forest's three and 60% of the possession.
Yet Eddie Howe, the Newcastle coach, still saw plenty of room for improvement, which his side delivered on afꦗter the restart.
"It was difficult, but we knew it would be," he said. "They are a difficult team to play against because they don't concede many chances and you'✤re left fearing the worst when you go behind.
"We had work to do at half-time, but credit to the pla✃yers because the second half was up there with our best performances this season.
"Everything we didn't do in the first half, we did at the start of the se☂cond half. We were intense and direct with our attacking. We asked more questions and could have scored.
"I'm really🍎 pleased with the se💧cond half."
Newcastle have won three in a row inꦏ all competitions for the first time in over a year, helped by a return to form for their attacking starsജ.
Isak had netted only once this season ꦆbefore scoring in the past four successive matches, while Barnes again showed his quality from the bench. Six of his nine Newcastle goals have come as a sub💦stitute.
Howe added: "We need our attacking players to contribute goals, and Alex has done that in the past few weeks with massive moments, then Joelinton and Harvey Barnes pop up with moments, t🌄oo.
"We know we have players who can make that difference, and I'm really pleased with that side of our gam🌱e.
"Harvey Barꦫnes did what he does. He's an outstanding player♕. Trying to find room for him in the team is something that I am conscious of.
"I'm really pleased he got that goal – I thought it was a fantastiꦕc finish."
