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Oct 3 (Reuters) – Nottingham Forest manager Ange Postecoglou was not surprised fans were calling for him to be sacked after their 3-2 Europa League defeat by Midtjylland on Thursday but the Australian says he is focused on getting results and improving the team. Postecoglou has endured a torrid start at the Midlands club since replacing Nuno Espirito Santo last month, becoming the first permanent Forest manager in 100 years to fail to win any of his opening six matches. The 60-year-old former Tottenham Hotspur manager faced chants of, "You're getting sacked in the morning" from frustrated Forest fans after the loss to the Danish side at the City Ground and Postecoglou understood their disappointment. "They are allowed to have an opinion on it. I heard their opinion," Postecoglou told reporters. "Nothing surprises me in football. It's the climate we're in. It seems that's the way things are going. "My responsibility is to make sure we get some wins for this football club and progress it. I would prefer if people were optimistic in their outlook of what I'm doing. I can only change that by winning games of football. "I really believe in the process of what we're doing and I don't think we're far away from being the team that can eradicate the situation we're in at the moment and get the results." Forest are 17th in the Premier League table with five points from six matches and their October fixture list includes a trip to Newcastle United on Sunday, a home game against Chelsea and an away fixture at Bournemouth. "I get the mood around the place isn't going to be great, and I understand people's attitude at the moment, particularly towards me, but it's not unfamiliar territory for me, Postecoglou said. "I believe we are on the right track." (Reporting by Pearl Josephine Nazare in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)

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(Recasts with credit forecasts) HANOI, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Vietnam's central bank expects credit to increase by 19% to 20% this year and will prioritise economic growth while maintaining stability in the face of global uncertainties, senior officials said on Friday. Deputy Governor Pham Thanh Ha also said at a press conference that commercial banks' lending interest rates were on a downward trend and called for further cuts. "The global economic and political situation has so far this year evolved in an unpredictable manner, with market concerns about the U.S. tariff policy, the risks of a global trade war and geopolitical conflicts," Ha said. Pham Chi Quang, who heads the monetary policy department, said the State Bank of Vietnam would focus on stopping non-performing loans from rising, and said lending to risky sectors would be tightly controlled. Vietnam is targeting gross domestic product growth of 8.3%-8.5% this year, faster than the 7.09% rate last year. Credit growth is a key driver of the economy. Last month, prominent academics warned its lawmakers that breakneck credit expansion may fuel asset price bubbles. The central bank said bank lending has risen 13.37% as of September 29 compared to the end of last year. (Reporting by Khanh Vu; Writing by John Mair; Editing by David Stanway)

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(Adds details, background throughout) Oct 2 (Reuters) – BlackRock-owned Global Infrastructure Partners is in advanced talks to acquire Macquarie-backed Aligned Data Centers in a deal valuing the technology infrastructure company at $40 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. The companies have yet to finalize a deal, but an agreement could be announced within days, Bloomberg said, citing people familiar with the matter. Mubadala, an investor in Aligned and a backer of MGX, an Abu Dhabi AI investment firm, is also involved in the talks and would invest independently as part of the transaction, the report said. Blackrock declined to comment on the report. GIP, Aligned, Macquarie, and Mubadala did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The enormous uptake of AI, both in business and personal use, has prompted a host of companies to invest in AI data centers. McKinsey estimates those investments to reach $6.7 trillion by 2030 to meet computing power demand. Texas-based Aligned, which specializes in AI-related infrastructure, raised more than $12 billion in January. (Reporting by Rhea Rose Abraham and Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by Sonia Cheema)

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Orlando City and the Columbus Crew will meet in Central Florida on Saturday night in a match that will be critical for both teams' playoff positioning. All nine Eastern Conference MLS Cup Playoff participants have already been finalized more than two weeks ahead of the final day of regular-season play on Oct. 18. But both seventh-place Orlando (14-7-10, 52 points) and ninth-place Columbus (13-8-11, 50 points) are still fighting to avoid the East wild-card game, which will be between the teams finishing in eighth and ninth. For much of the season, Columbus looked on track to be competing for the higher East positions. But after a stretch of only one win and six points earned in the last seven matches, manager Wilfried Nancy's side would face a must-win wild-card match on the road if the postseason began now. With only two games left on the schedule, Nancy is trying to impart to his team that it still has the quality of the side that took 24 points from its first 11 games. "We are qualified for the playoffs," Nancy said, "because of the way we started the season. And this we have to think about it. … We are qualified because we had the best start of the season in the club's history. So they can not forget that." Nancy also suggested leading scorer Diego Rossi is questionable this week after missing the last three matches. Orlando's trajectory has been the reverse, with the Lions at one point winning four straight league games through July and August. More recently, the team has used stoppage-time goals from Duncan McGuire and Alex Freeman, respectively, to earn dramatic late results in a 3-2 home win over Nashville on Sept. 20 and a 1-1 draw at FC Cincinnati last Sunday. Orlando City have also won three in a row at home and could move as high as fifth with a fourth consecutive home victory and other favorable results Saturday. Orlando also has a match in hand on Charlotte and Nashville, the current fifth- and sixth-place sides. "It's something that at the beginning of the season was a challenge, but now we have that record that inspires us," Orlando manager Oscar Pareja said of that recent home form. "The boys were talking about it … how important the game is, but how important it is to play it in front of our people." –Field Level Media

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