Match Thread | Notts Forest vs Man City (28/04/24)

[Keeper!]

Haaland & Kova please pep

Haaland did not start, on the bench for emergency only

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

Reminds me a lot of Adam Johnson as a player actually. He always looked exciting but flattered to deceive and was never that good as a starter because his decision-making was never consistent.

I think it's fair to say Adam Johnson's decision making wasn't the best!

 

[Gorbachev]

Doku is not a starter in these title run in games.

Grealish needs to be quicker in his decision making for me.

 

[Gordyola]

What the fuck is this system Pep has taken “inverted” to the extreme
Walker has been poor all season and today he is worse than ever
Bernie poor again seems to have lost his strength
Doku Absolute liability but where is he playing?

Certainly got away with it that half but, it won’t last
We are a better team with Rico but once captain Walker was fit Pep for some reason had to bring him back
What does Bobb have to do to get more time

 

[Tolmie scores]

My Forest mate frustrated that they haven't done this before

Not all opposition look so nervy and at times lost as we do today. Need players to accept that and go into nowt shall pass mode 2nd half. Grab steal a 1 nil. League champions do thiis.. and we are in that champions bracket

 

[JTFactsPlz]

Pep was a total genius v Brighton. Today he’s got it totally wrong. WALKER CAN’T PLAY INVERTED FULL BACK!!!! He’s not clever enough. If he doesn’t change it we could be in trouble here.

Brighton were on the beach, complete with sun umbrellas, lotion and deckchairs. Forest are not.

 

[Bluemoon dan]

Well Arsenal were brilliant in the first half earlier and pretty poor in the second. Hopefully we'll do the same sort of thing!

 

[69FACUPfinal]

100% all he has to do is play Kova & leave walker to go down the wing if need be and take doku off

When I saw the team I knew we would have control problems ( n
o Kova) and no creativity ( no Phil - although realise he is poorly). Give some of the young ones a chance- at least they bring a bit of zip.

 

[jimharri]

In fairness Forest have created more chances. We have not been at our best and even worse after scoring.

Not much point, if they're not getting them on target. One on target out of eight efforts isn't a great percentage. We've had two out of seven on target. Not spellbinding, but better.

 

[Metal Biker]

The match thread never (always) disappoints.

Could it start doing so? Pretty please!?

 

[moomba]

Not been great so far, think we need a lift in the second cause an equaliser for them doesn't seem too far off.

I'd give it 10, then Doku off for Kovacic and Bernie moved across to the right.

 

[Bluemanc100]

Got to say, I really wasn't expecting such a twitchy arsehole game against a team that's lost 19 games this season.

Yet another team who raise their game for their “cup final”

 

[clarion]

Get Doku off for Kova and put silva out wide before they eventually score from that side of the field!

So obvious.

 

[Gabriel]

Understandably nervy performance, but there’s nothing on the bench that will make us demonstrably stronger. We just need to dig deep and ride this one out. Many of their better chances have stemmed from us turning over possession and not tracking runners.

 

[citytill1die84]

I watched man utd v burnley yesterday and this is not better and that's the biggest insult I can give our team. Absolutely diabolical. And yet winning so I guess we'll take it.

We played Thursday night, players wouldn't have got home till early hours Friday we've had only Saturday to recover. Forest have had a week.

 

[Norbert D]

Sky HT basically the Arsenal fan club, surprised Micah hasnt got his red shirt on, again.

 

[Man-chester copperpot]

Right, half time.
My advice would be to kick the ball in their net again and don’t let them kick in ours.

Got that? Let’s go City!!!!!!

 

[Millennium]

Something wrong with Walker.

 

[Bald fraud]

Got to say, I really wasn't expecting such a twitchy arsehole game against a team that's lost 19 games this season.

Never goin to be easy this one same as last season

 

[Brewster's millions]

Very poor half and we’re extremely fortunate to be ahead.

Rodri, Ake and Gvardiol have turned up, but that’s about it.

Not sure what Bernado is doing out there but he’s been terrible and we’re wide open in midfield.

We can’t keep relying on them missing open goals.