Nottingham Forest (A) | Post Match Thread

[havefaith]

The build up came from our left mate, laporte had to come over to fill the gap and was left in no man's land, we should've scored 4/5 but we didn't but I find it strange how Ake has covered that area yet he sticks with Bernardo ? Hard to moan at the performance it's just the one incident which ultimately cost us.

Laporte acted like he was in no mans land, theres no excuse for not putting a challenge in, shocking defending.

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

Sometimes Pep can't see what needs doing to see a game out

 

[azza105]

Laporte acted like he was in no mans land, theres no excuse for not putting a challenge in, shocking defending.

Your right mate but he's come over because he knows we're weak in that area, If we brought Ake on I'm convinced we are more composed and comfortable.

 

[RayCTID]

I’m really not understanding your point here now, your initial post was that ‘normally we would be happy with 4 points from two tricky away games’ my points are the following:

Forrest away is not and should not be a tricky away game for city, I don’t mean to sound arrogant or entitled but a team of citys quality should be winning the game comfortably and any team with aspirations of winning the league should never be satisfied with a point there. Calling it a tricky fixture afterwards is a poor defence of a terrible result which is made worse after such an important win on Wednesday. I agree the performance wasn’t terrible today but the result was, it feels like a massive kick in the teeth and as if that arsenal win means next to nothing now as they take it back out of our hands 3 days later

They are decent form at the minute and have only lost once since January in the league. It had the potential , and was proven to be very tricky despite the players we had at our disposal. Especially after the first clash with Arsenal where had to put a lot in that performance to get a result as well. Forest had one or two players who had Champions League and Premier League experienced in their defence (despite completely riding their luck).

 

[HamannCheese]

Sweet Jesus, just watched the highlights. We missed some amount of sitters today. Still believe Arsenal will continue to drop points and we'll tip them at the end. Right down to the wire.

 

[oakiecokie]

In a one on one Laporte would get brushed aside by a 12 year old girl.

Spot on.

 

[colorado blue]

Not sure if it's been mentioned but even when crusing surely with ten left we bring Ake or Lewis on to fill the gap at left back ? If we had any weakness it was always the covering Bernardo playing outta position in that area, pretty naive from us but we go again.

Spot on. Especially when they brought on another attacker for a defender. Seems so obvious now. kill the game and protect what you have.

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

It took 84 minutes to expose Peps decision not to play Ake

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

They are decent form at the minute and have only lost once since January in the league. It had the potential , and was proven to be very tricky despite the players we had at our disposal. Especially after the first clash with Arsenal where had to put a lot in that performance to get a result as well. Forest had one or two players who had Champions League and Premier League experienced in their defence (despite completely riding their luck).

We should have been out of sight at h/t

 

[azza105]

Spot on. Especially when they brought on another attacker for a defender. Seems so obvious now. kill the game and protect what you have.

Trying not to dwell too much but we do need to see games out better, carrying on playing an out of position Bernardo when we have Ake or Lewis on the bench to see the game out is a baffling choice.