Nottingham Forest vs Aston Villa post-match thread

[coreyfeldman]

Personally I thought they were very good, they kept the ball well, very physical and direct. At times we were ok, but we seem to lack ideas going forward. They are a very good side this season and have impressed me numerous times.

Not sure what you were watching. Forest looked like rubbish. Possession, sure, but little else.

This is a garbage statement, forest played pretty well, good in wide areas and put us under a decent amount of pressure.

If you think they're rubbish then we must be fucking league 2

[Goldie.7]

Only consolation is I won £90 on Duran scoring, booked, 3 shots and Cash 1 shot.

When Forest equalised I put £10 on them winning and won a further £70.

Good stuff. I had Duran to score or get booked, Cash SOT with McGinn to win 2 fouls. Nice little £34 from a freebie.

I had a few others as well but the referee was Coote's level corrupt so it is what it is.

I'm only interested in football these days to make money and that's it. That non-penalty decision mixed with an entire 90+ minutes of the worst officiating I've seen is why.

[Brend'Watkins]

Emery completely outdone by Nuno.

We absolutely weren’t. We were outdone by ourselves. We were outdone by our shit decision making, we were undone by VAR, again. Why we brought off Kamara I’ll never know? absolutely ridiculous. He wasn’t knackered, we haven’t got a game mid week so there was no need when he was running the show. This is as much on Unai as our players. With Mings there we win that easily. He commands the area. Our back three/four can barely head the ball. 3 points frittered away. Wankers!

[ez]

We can't beat the top sides. We are rubbish at seeing the game out. That offside goal should have been a warning but they were able to play the same ball again and it led to a goal.
We need to ditch the walking football.

[cheadlevilla]

Konsa seems to have improved his “pointing at other people” skills to the detriment of everything else . I really think he has an attitude issue and when he’s in the same defence as Carlos, I think we have problems!

[brontebilly]

Forest won it doesn't mean it was a Nuno master class.

They were horribly conservative I thought until we scored. Brought on likes of Elanga and finally had a go at our flimsy defence.

[Ian.]

We didn't create anywhere near enough today chances wise.

If we’d have had the same intent as in the week we’d of had a chance. I wonder if these mid-week games are a step too far for us at the moment? Not quite the squad depth in terms of quality for where we are.

[Rudy65]

No that’s just it, the league position is ok. But no one watching us, particularly tonight, can look at that and think we’re a side who’s going to compete at the top. We need to improve a lot at both ends of the pitch.

It was always going to be a big ask with combining CL especially with two extra games.

Do people think Newcastle just dropped off last season because Howe is a terrible manager?

Last season going 1-0 up in this type of game we either see it out or get a second and control things from there.

This season we had a tough midweek away game and at 1-0 it was certainly a mentality of conserve energy and try to get the 1-0 just holding positions behind the ball.

I do think we could've made the second double sub change earlier, good time to do it would've been after their goal was disallowed.

We were in Europe last season. We’re now a worse team

[pauliewalnuts]

Forest won it doesn't mean it was a Nuno master class.

They were horribly conservative I thought until we scored. Brought on likes of Elanga and finally had a go at our flimsy defence.

However shit they were or were not, they had enough to take three points off us.

[Rudy65]

Personally I thought they were very good, they kept the ball well, very physical and direct. At times we were ok, but we seem to lack ideas going forward. They are a very good side this season and have impressed me numerous times.

Not sure what you were watching. Forest looked like rubbish. Possession, sure, but little else.

This is a garbage statement, forest played pretty well, good in wide areas and put us under a decent amount of pressure.

If you think they're rubbish then we must be fucking league 2

they only woke up after we scored

[Risso]

We didn't create anywhere near enough today chances wise.

If we’d have had the same intent as in the week we’d of had a chance. I wonder if these mid-week games are a step too far for us at the moment? Not quite the squad depth in terms of quality for where we are.

There were three players in Barkley, Onana and Maatsen who could have started if players were tired.

[villadelph]

We didn't create anywhere near enough today chances wise.

If we’d have had the same intent as in the week we’d of had a chance. I wonder if these mid-week games are a step too far for us at the moment? Not quite the squad depth in terms of quality for where we are.

There were three players in Barkley, Onana and Maatsen who could have started if players were tired.

You just said that they lost us the game..?

[pauliewalnuts]

We didn't create anywhere near enough today chances wise.

If we’d have had the same intent as in the week we’d of had a chance. I wonder if these mid-week games are a step too far for us at the moment? Not quite the squad depth in terms of quality for where we are.

There were three players in Barkley, Onana and Maatsen who could have started if players were tired.

The tired argument only really has any traction if you think it would have been any different if we hadn't played in mid-week. It wouldn't.

Talking of midweek, we managed to concede two goals - one a clear defensive brainfart, yet again - against a truly shite Leipzig team who are the whipping boys of the competition, and needed a massive deflection to get out of jail.

Yes, I know we largely played well in that match, but like today, it matters for absolutely fucking nothing if you're going to have yet another defensive mental breakdown and spunk away goals.

[Demitri_C]

Just seen the goals fuck me this defence us fucking embarrassment.  If they had 9-5 jobs they would be sacked for being so shit.

Ill happily  replace the lot of them come the summer.

Can someone please bring back the team of 2023 to replace this Blues one of 2024 that cant defend to save their lives please?

[dave.woodhall]

No that’s just it, the league position is ok. But no one watching us, particularly tonight, can look at that and think we’re a side who’s going to compete at the top. We need to improve a lot at both ends of the pitch.

It was always going to be a big ask with combining CL especially with two extra games.

Do people think Newcastle just dropped off last season because Howe is a terrible manager?

Last season going 1-0 up in this type of game we either see it out or get a second and control things from there.

This season we had a tough midweek away game and at 1-0 it was certainly a mentality of conserve energy and try to get the 1-0 just holding positions behind the ball.

I do think we could've made the second double sub change earlier, good time to do it would've been after their goal was disallowed.

We were in Europe last season. We’re now a worse team

Last season's European competition was more like a series of friendlies. This time we're playing with the big lads.