Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Ianu]

Can’t believe our players and management didn’t make more of the Anderson challenge. Shocking

[ez]

My worry is we went full strength and struggled. We are going to have to find the net somehow at Villa Park.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Well, we have another chance to redeem ourselves  and prove we aren’t bottling another big moment again, but we had nothing up front tonight.

Really don't understand why we bothered buying Abraham. Surely he can't be that bad? Less than zero can only be.

[brontebilly]

We were doing more or less OK until Onana went off. He was making loads of interceptions with his telescopic legs.

After that, we just sort of scrapped our way to the end without creating a single chance.

Play like that again next week and it'll be curtains.

Watkins missed a sitter!

[kippaxvilla2]

Forest will score on the break next week.  We won’t score 3.  That was a fucking shite performance. 

[LeonW]

Well, we have another chance to redeem ourselves  and prove we aren’t bottling another big moment again, but we had nothing up front tonight.

Really don't understand why we bothered buying Abraham. Surely he can't be that bad? Less than zero can only be.

You’d be going to the manager in the summer and asking for a transfer.

[Brown, Arce, Hole]

Too many shit performances

Digne
Tielemans
Glass legs Onana
Mcginn
Bogarde   fuck me
Buendia   abysmal

Not over but we will need an early goal

Ref atrocious

Mc Ginn was decent.
Buendia awful

Watkins and Rogers didn’t cover themselves in glory either

[Beard82]

Not the worst result.

Var is bollocks - I don’t understand it.  I don’t understand how the Anderson tackle is not a red.  When the video shows it was high over the ball and studs up.

I then don’t understand how the on pitch referee gives it out of play and then var says it wasn’t.  Both are subjective views we don’t have the technology to know iif it was out or not  - we don’t have the lines like we do for offside or the goal line tech.

I think it was an even game - the ref had a shocker and we were on the wrong end of it.  Play at our best and we’ll still go through comfortably   

[Mister E]

Blimey, there's been some shite on the match thread and on here. In the first away leg  ofa 2-leg semi-final, the plan is to close down the opposition and minimise goals-conceded. That's what we did, and actually we played quite well, too.
Most of our players played well: Buendia was poor and I'm surprised he started (he's better as a sub), and Bogarde was slack and unreliable. For the rest, we did fine.
Bring in next Thursday!

[BoVillan esq]

We need to PSG them without conceding the early goals. We can do this.

That's it, put another way, its half time we are 1-0 down, against a team very limited in what it can do, they either bludgeons you to death or nothing, I don't think their is anything to be dejected about.

[itbrvilla]

Watkins

People losing their minds when there's a second leg at home. Look at the teams we've beaten at home in Europe over the last three years. We're still in the tie which is what you need in Europe. Goid teams are still in the tie when the lose by 2/3 more often than not.

We failed to support anyone who received the bal up the field. No one near them after 4-5 seconds after they've received the ball every fucking time.

[LeonW]

Blimey, there's been some shite on the match thread and on here. In the first away leg  ofa 2-leg semi-final, the plan is to close down the opposition and minimise goals-conceded. That's what we did, and actually we played quite well, too.
Most of our players played well: Buendia was poor and I'm surprised he started (he's better as a sub), and Bogarde was slack and unreliable. For the rest, we did fine.
Bring in next Thursday!

How did we play quite well?

[kippaxvilla2]

The ball wasn’t out.  It was a monumentally Keith Curle decision from Digne.

[Ianu]

Well, we have another chance to redeem ourselves  and prove we aren’t bottling another big moment again, but we had nothing up front tonight.

Really don't understand why we bothered buying Abraham. Surely he can't be that bad? Less than zero can only be.

That is the crucial question. We don’t have the resources that the teams above us have, yet we have the strange Elliot situation, the strange Tammy situation and the strange Malen situation.

If we don’t achieve our goals this year, whoever sanctioned those deals should be held accountable

[Smithy]

We were doing more or less OK until Onana went off. He was making loads of interceptions with his telescopic legs.

After that, we just sort of scrapped our way to the end without creating a single chance.

Play like that again next week and it'll be curtains.

Watkins missed a sitter!

And Youri's shot at the end - neither was a gilt-edged chance, but a chance nonetheless.  Not much else though.  (I wouldn't call Sancho's shot a 'chance', really)