Nottingham Forest (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Ken92]

The next two sentences you've wrote after "Haaland is ineffective" sums up exactly why Haaland is ineffective.

Two wingers that can beat a man buy yet they've both end product like Adama Traore.

Haaland makes his move, Yet both wingers have an opportunity to put one across the face of goal but will decide to take more touches and then put it in to no man's land.

We've possibly the most ineffective wingers in the league. Absolutely zero goal threat.

Genuinely couldn't give two fucks what age they are, They are a huge drop in class to what we used to have. Mahrez would walk straight back into this team.

jep. Look what Barcelona , Liverpool or PSG wingers are playing. They are scoring loads of goals and being very effective , our wingers are so far off it. Stop using that`` they are still young` stuff, Yamal at 17 is already 2x better doku will ever be.

 

[samuelyeboah]

This is not important, but i legit thought we were pretty good defensively for most of the game!

 

[Rammy Blue]

Rico is shite, Bernie is finished, Kova is not good enough, Phil is pathetic.

 

[Roachy]

I'm sad to see us play so passively, of course, and I know this all has context re injuries etc, but I'm growing more worried about how generally out of touch we look compared to other more direct teams around Europe.

Getting left behind, no disputing that.

 

[skillman]

Amazed we took Nico off. Kovacic isn’t good enough to be the sole centre midfielder - as all season has shown - so that switch opened our midfield up entirely. Mad.

 

[Beanhead]

Wow

Why? He was the only one penetrating and created a good chance and occupied two players. Second half he was gash. Should have stayed on the left.

 

[Zenmanc]

In all honesty we know full well now the following are not coming back and I'm happy to wave them off at the airport and rebuild.

No disrespect to these who have given us so much:

KDB
Bernie

These simply too injured to afford to rely on:

Stones
Ake

These Im ready to help pack:

Gundo
Kova
Nunes
Lewis

And Jack is so deep in the doghouse there's no point in him staying if he actually wants to play the game.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

I'm really not understanding what Rico did wrong today? I thought he was a big improvement on Nunes. Pretty pathetic scapegoating going on from some people.

 

[Paulmcfc2703]

Got to give credit to Forest. Their defensive structure was superb.

Thought we played well up to a point. We looked far more in control until the subs came on.

Fortunately, we only have 10 more games to endure seeing Kovacic as a 6. He just can’t play there.

That’s our tricky run over now. Hopefully we can win most of the remaining games, finish top 5 and maybe win the cup.

You say that the tricky run is over but of the teams that are left we have only managed to beat Leicester, Southampton, Wolves and Fulham

 

[comiskey33]

Is Nico not fit to play 90mins? seems bit heavy to me.
Only completed 90mins twice since arriving

 

[Lee the Blue]

In a nutshell, our Subs gave Forest a lift - not ourselves. Even by just standing there Gonzalez makes us far harder to beat - he goes off, and we are back to November again. We cannot play our system without a genuine holding midfielder.

 

[noseve]

Gvardiol did the right thing. Slowed him down. Left him a tight angle and attempted a good block. Eddy just didn't do a good job

Di you really think so? Inviting the attacker into your area before 'attempting a good block'?

How about going straight to the player and stopping the cross/shot at source? Get right on top of the player with the ball and there is nothing to block in the first place.

What's so annoying - repeatedly - is that in every match we are presenting the type of chance that no other teams ever offer us.

 

[eastmanc]

What does Bernardo actually bring to the starting 11 nowadays?
Very little if you ask me

He's a legend but sadly he's at the end of his career at City.

 

[lefty goldblatt]

One nil down with 10 minutes to go....

Prime dippers, tarquins and rags (of old) would've PEPPERED their goal with shots.

We had one from Kova.

Dire

 

[Toney’s bookie]

We didn’t ‘control’ or ‘dominate’ the game. They just happily let us have the ball and pass it between the wingers and fullbacks ad nauseum. Haaland had zero service it was walking pace turgid boring rubbish. Let’s be honest, if Nuno had written the script it wouldn’t have been much different to how it actually panned out.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Amazed we took Nico off. Kovacic isn’t good enough to be the sole centre midfielder - as all season has shown - so that switch opened our midfield up entirely. Mad.

I know Nunes and Nico both had bookings but that double sub cost us the game.

 

[ShaunMCFC]

Rico is shite, Bernie is finished, Kova is not good enough, Phil is pathetic.

Gutted Phil’s in your list but I have to agree.

 

[heslops barnet]

I'm really not understanding what Rico did wrong today? I thought he was a big improvement on Nunes. Pretty pathetic scapegoating going on from some people.

Rico comes way down the blame list…..

 

[Beanhead]

Rico is shite, Bernie is finished, Kova is not good enough, Phil is pathetic.

Sums it up perfectly for me. Those 4 have been our biggest issues this season imo. For said reasons.

 

[LesBleuMiserable]

A dreadful performance, absolutely no goal threat all match. Sideways and backwards all game. Bernardo is finished along with quite a few others.
Regarding Forest, if they're the third best team in the league I'll show my arse in Burton's window, they're shite. I think the league is going full circle when the tactics of Pulis and Allerdice gets you the result.

Have all their shops not shut down?

Or unless you want to inflict irreparabile psychological toil on one Burton household!