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Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche is looking to avoid a potential Europa League play-off and hopes a win over Braga will take them one step closer to automatic qualification.Forest have won three out of their last four matches in this competition which has put them in a realistic position of qualifying without the need of a play-off, and victory on Thursday will put them inside the top-eight positions with a game remaining.Forest will take confidence into the game after they were able to get a draw against Premier League leaders Arsenal at the weekend.The Portuguese outfit have won four of their last six matches and currently sit above Dyche's side in the standings and will prove a tough side to beat at Estadio Municipal.Dyche told a press conference: "Braga are a very impressive team and so is their coach (Carlos Vicens), who worked with Pep Guardiola."We are prepared with our mentality and we are organised and ready to win. I know Braga can change that style of play depending on how the match goes."Ideally, we want to go through automatically, but it's complicated. We have to maintain this momentum and the objective is to win tomorrow. "We know it's a challenging place to come and they are going well in the Europa League."We don't take any game for granted and are taking it very seriously."
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