Unai Emery

[Sexual Ealing]

Its quite alarming that suddenly people think Nottingham Forest have morphed into prime Barcelona over the past week.

They don't need to morph. They just need us to be Aston Villa when the pressure's on.

[Dante Lavelli]

I’m hoping the nervousness focuses the mind. It was never going to be easy, so respect for the opposition can only help.

[eamonn]

Its quite alarming that suddenly people think Nottingham Forest have morphed into prime Barcelona over the past week.

I mean they kinda have.

[Somniloquism]

Well they scored 9 of their 10 shots on target the last two matches and of 20 overall shots. Seems they either have definitely hit on a way to guarantee goals or they have just been lucky to play two leaky defences.

[Rory]

They're still Nottingham Forest, and it's still the case that if they beat us over two legs, it'll be because we haven't turned up.

[frank black]

Its quite alarming that suddenly people think Nottingham Forest have morphed into prime Barcelona over the past week.

I mean they kinda have.

A combination of this and the fact we choke in Semis

[walsall villain]

They're still Nottingham Forest, and it's still the case that if they beat us over two legs, it'll be because we haven't turned up.

Their current form is much better than ours so it’s hard to call. They are playing so much better than when Dyche was in charge.

[PaulWinch again]

They're still Nottingham Forest, and it's still the case that if they beat us over two legs, it'll be because we haven't turned up.

Their current form is much better than ours so it’s hard to call. They are playing so much better than when Dyche was in charge.

They are more solid. I suspect the last two games are anomalies as they weren’t exactly prolific goalscorers before. But let’s be clear, we should have been out of sight when we played them. Rory’s point stands, across 180 minutes if we don’t go through it’ll be because we’ve underperformed.

[Mister E]

Well they scored 9 of their 10 shots on target the last two matches and of 20 overall shots. Seems they either have definitely hit on a way to guarantee goals or they have just been lucky to play two leaky defences.

A few weeks' ago, Forest fans were complaining that they were having 15-20 goals-attempts and not scoring; presumably they had a high xG. Now, performance vs the xG is normalising as they are scoring more freely.
However, the Blunderland game was a bit 'out there' in that the home side massively underperformed vs their home-form trend.

Forest will have renewed confidence against us, and that can be a pretty powerful plus: we have to ensure that we are not bullied or over-run early in the game; make it tight and force them onto the back foot. If we serially concede possession and appear uncertain in our gameplay, they'll beat us.