Nottingham Forest Match Thread

[LoftusRoadLad]

Ball is so poor , Field is wasted in a back 3 .

That I agree. Jan was totally alone in midfield. Bettache should have been on not Ball.

[Stainrod]

Sorry, but that's not all true. The much simpler solution would have been moving Kakay (a defender) into the centre of defence and reinstall Kane at RWB. Leave the centre of midfield (the engine) alone.

Kane wasn’t even on the bench today .

[gator]

I guess the play offs are slipping away from us? A bad day all round, we did look unbalanced, there wasn't much in the 1st half and we gave up a poor goal right near the end, we have been fortunate the CB's have stayed reasonably fit because we don't have much depth there!

[Kit]

We are a truly inconsistent side, really depends which side turns up, tactics totally wrong today.

[QPRDave]

No surprise, and not unexpected.
But it doesn't matter

[shanns]

Yep. Move on.

[QPRDave]

Have to say just seen the gls, a bit poor from our pov.
Grabban hit it well, but two players not closing him down.
And the 3rd? mistake by Dieng.

[Stainrod]

Have to say just seen the gls, a bit poor from our pov.
Grabban hit it well, but two players not closing him down.
And the 3rd? mistake by Dieng.

Dieng shouldn’t have been beaten from there and Barbet gifted them the first goal .

[knocker]

Start Albert at right wing back..

[Rebel R's]

We had nothing really to play for but pride,safe from relegation, no chance of reaching play offs so not too surprised.
what has surprised me this season is our reaction to bad performances, we usually bounce back (since early January anyway).
hopefully that trend continues against Rotherham on tuesday as it would be nice to finish this season higher than last .

[MINCER]

Start Albert at right wing back..

Totally agree.It was obvious both Wing Backs today were ineffective and denied space by forest dropping deep.Kakay seemed the obvious candidate to fill in for Cameron and Albert at Right Wing Back.

[Stainrod]

Totally agree.It was obvious both Wing Backs today were ineffective and denied space by forest dropping deep.Kakay seemed the obvious candidate to fill in for Cameron and Albert at Right Wing Back.

He hasn’t started Albert at RWB all season , it’s clear he believes he doesn’t have the stamina for a whole game in that position, hence him only having a few cameo appearances towards the end of games . I don’t know why we signed him as he will only ever start in a 4 4 2 system which we don’t play anymore.

[MINCER]

He hasn’t started Albert at RWB all season , it’s clear he believes he doesn’t have the stamina for a whole game in that position, hence him only having a few cameo appearances towards the end of games . I don’t know why we signed him as he will only ever start in a 4 4 2 system which we don’t play anymore.

That may well be the case due to Warburtons skewered opinion on Albert, but nobody can deny that in nigh on “every single game “ that Albert has had pitch time he has created clear cut chances for teammates to score and has scored the odd goal himself.

More importantly with Albert being able to put accurate crosses in the box we may start playing to our Strikers strengths instead of purely relying on W/Bs and Chair.

[Abseits]

It's not reasonable to judge Adomah based purely on 20 minute cameos against tiring opposition. He clearly hasn't got 90 minutes in him, especially as a wing-back, so it's ridiculous to suggest he should start. With 5 subs it's a 16-man team, the concept of a 1st XI is obsolete - AA is a very useful member of the 16 who does his best work coming on in the final quarter. Trying to eke anymore than that out of him wont work in my view.

[dave58]

Very poor performance . Awful defending especially from Barbet on 1st goal just had to clear it.right on half time , go in 0-0 becomes different game not having to chase the game, Dien at fault for 3rd and poor defending on 2nd not closed down,