Nottingham Forest (A) | Post Match Thread

[oakiecokie]

Bernardo going walkabout caused it, Laporte doing standabout assisted it and Rodri doing fallabout contributed to it. The initial error was Bernardo

You might as well have said that initially it broke by a forward losing the original ball in the Forest half !!

 

[eyalluvitt]

Teams play a different style when playing City. I cannot see Leicester playing such a high line against us like they did against the rags

Yes , it’s not like United have a fast pacy offside immune forward to exploit the high line tactics, good job Brendan

 

[Stephen230]

After the initial disappointment, I’d normally quite happily write a result like that off as a freak occurrence, where a perfect storm of unlikely events all conspired against us on the same day.

But that’s what, about four times now this season, we’ve dropped points in similar circumstances? Freak occurrences don’t happen that often. As I’ve said elsewhere I think it’s time to accept this isn’t an exceptional City side, by recent standards. But it’s still a good enough side to win the league in a year with no outstanding side. We need to keep our nerve. Put these bad days behind us as quickly as possibly. And hope we can edge up towards a points total in the mid 80s and pray Arsenal fall short of that.

 

[Bentheblue]

The rags are utter shite, but they have the refs, var and the media backing them up. They are miles away from our level but it doesn't take much to change the course of football results

Their goalie is a big plus, according to rag aquaintances he makes top saves most games. May not be too hot with his feet but he regularly wins them games.

 

[Vic]

The other thing that I was thinking about why this keeps happening is analysis and coaches of opposition teams that are not mugs.

We've seen a number of teams focus on just staying afloat against us for 60-70 mins then launching a quite high intesity gear change as we tire.

Peps systems are pretty well understood now and there are a lot of very professional coaches and analysts trying to come up with ways to play against us. This is inevitable and for years now Pep has made tweaks that have moved the game on and we've stayed ahead.

This weakness is something I'm sure Pep and his team are working on and I have faith that we will move forward again.

I did think in the first half that we were expending more energy trying to create openings than Forest were in covering them. There was one moment late in the half where Kev, on the right, passed the ball but made no attempt to look to go forward for a return.

And can someone tell me, when we get a free kick near goal, everyone is in the penalty area, and no-one on our team can move out toward the wing to offer another option? But then that's the main problem generally - the player with the ball seems to have fewer options than in previous seasons and I don't think that's just to do with bus-parking opponents. It's simple lack of movement, for either wanting the ball or drawing opponents out of position.

 

[Trojan1962]

Their goalie is a big plus, according to rag aquaintances he makes top saves most games. May not be too hot with his feet but he regularly wins them games.

The fucking officials and VAR are what wins their games

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I was working the weekend so didn't see the game 'live', on;y got as far as Haaland's miss on the OS highlights this morning and was so annoyed by the 6 or so mins I'd seen I just binned it off.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Those misses on Saturday were absolutely criminal, Haaland's, Laporte's piss poor, and wtf Foden was trying to do when he made that awful pass to Haaland is anyone's guess, you have to shoot in that position. Where is this City of the last few seasons, because at present we look a shadow of those title winning sides

 

[LongsightM13]

The other thing that I was thinking about why this keeps happening is analysis and coaches of opposition teams that are not mugs.

We've seen a number of teams focus on just staying afloat against us for 60-70 mins then launching a quite high intesity gear change as we tire.

Peps systems are pretty well understood now and there are a lot of very professional coaches and analysts trying to come up with ways to play against us. This is inevitable and for years now Pep has made tweaks that have moved the game on and we've stayed ahead.

This weakness is something I'm sure Pep and his team are working on and I have faith that we will move forward again.

Yep if we haven’t killed teams off then they are quite happy to sit in deep, even with a 1-0 deficit, to try and make it a 15 minute game at the end.
Pep didn’t react to this obvious tactic until it was too late

 

[pride in battle]

Those misses on Saturday were absolutely criminal, Haaland's, Laporte's piss poor, and wtf Foden was trying to do when he made that awful pass to Haaland is anyone's guess, you have to shoot in that position. Where is this City of the last few seasons, because at present we look a shadow of those title winning sides

Aside from the misses that's the best we've played in a long time mate