Nottingham Forest vs Aston Villa post-match thread

[Smirker]

FFS.

[kippaxvilla2]

Only we could bring more defensive players on and lose a winning position.

[kipeye]

Disappointing but Kamara was outstanding again.

[villadelph]

How could you bring on Onana and Watkins up a goal and lose.

Still stunned, didn’t really deserve to lose that. We’ve got to spend on some proper players come January.

[Villan82]

Players are letting us down in the league. Simple as that. They are all weak at the knees for the champions league and can't get up for it in the league. Reminds me a bit of 1997-98 when we saved our best for Europe

[RichardBatchelor]

Forest fouled their way to victory and ref did nothing. Clear foul on Cash for the winner - just shoved over.

[AlexAlexCropley]

That was a crippler. Strange tactics after we scored. Shit the bed when Elanga came on.

[usav]

Here’s the thing, Emery will probably say we were in control of the game and they didn’t pose much of a threat and he’s mostly right. However, we all knew this would probably happen and the fact that it does and it’s all so predictable and we can’t change it is the most frustrating part.

[ChicagoLion]

Not good enough to put a sustained run of form.
We lacked leadership, energy and control.
We were a shambles after we scored.
Totally bottled it.

[Jon Crofts]

Weak as piss, officials, Emery, our defence, everyone, shite.

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

WANK

[Risso]

Shit defending, as per fucking usual. Maybe Emery will actually do something about it at some point. Twats.

[supertom]

We really need to stop dropping to the ground at every challenge and waiting for the whistle. Every single fucking game. All game today. Play to the whistle. Keep after the ball.
There were 2-3 challenges just before the one on Cash prior to their winner. Every time we just let Forest carry on hoping the ref would blow. He didn't.
Stop trying to fucking cheat and play the game.

Yes the Rogers penalty incident was arguably a foul but he could easily have kept on his feet and got a cross in. No, he falls to the ground and Forest retrieve it.

Really frustrating way to lose a game that we'd taken control in with the goal.

That's my biggest bugbear about todays game. It's one of the most annoying things we continue to do every single game too. Are other teams this bad? Because we don't tend to see the opponents doing this anywhere near as much as we do.

[KevinGage]

One shot on target all game I think it was.

Got what we deserved, really.

Forest looked a bit flat for the first 70 mins or so.

But they found - like so many teams before them - that if they applied any pressure at all we'd wilt. Business as usual.

Last season we found ways to win in tight games. 

This season we're finding new and interesting ways to throw them.

[PaulWinch again]

It’s a poor bloody loss from the position we were in.

One thing we have really lost is the ability to read a game. When we conceded we should never have been losing that game - spoil, get on the ball, whatever just stop their momentum. And then when we did concede there was absolutely zero intensity when chasing it. Really poor.