Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[itbrvilla]

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!

We were poor and with the help of the weaknref, gifted them the game.

[ez]

Next week, they are absolutely going to park the bus and protect the 1-0.

And that is precisely what we struggle against.

Exactly what i'm thinking. Forest can smell the final.

[KevinGage]

With our tenancy to bottle big games in recent years and Forest seeming to come into better form and scoring loads in the last couple of games I expected a complete embarrassment and an unreversable scoreline so the fact that we're still in the tie is something.

Same as that.

[Villatillidie1982]

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.

Hopefully the noise of the crowd will inspire more energy at home. They were allowed too much space but apart from the Emi wonder save did nothing with it.

[Ian.]

There was lots of tired, ropey performances, but Buendia was absolutely appalling.

I’m not one to criticise a player but Buendia had a right stinker tonight and was driving me nuts.

[Clampy]

Disappointed with the way we played more than the scoreline. Hopefully a rocking Villa Park will see us through but it needs to be better.

[curiousorange]

We're hoping two insipid attacking performances becomes razor sharp again. The only difference we have is what is fans can provide at Villa Park. We will step up, but do I have faith the players will?

[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!

How did we play quite well?

Defended well, moved the ball well, created chances, caused them problems ... conceded an unfortunate penalty.
It's halftime!!

[kippaxvilla2]

We’ve been poor for about half the season.  Just a great purple patch after the shocking start until just after new year has got us even close plus other teams inconsistencies.

[Aldridge Villa]

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!

This takes the biscuit from a talking drivel perspective.

[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!

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)

Tielemans was a shit effort, make him save it anyway. He's miles off it in my view. Sancho, Rogers etc efforts you expect the keeper to save them. Our set pieces were shit tonight too.

I think Maatsen into the team can give us a lot more legs in second leg, no idea why Digne is playing so much last couple of months. Buendia might be dropped too. Clear Emery hasn't much faith in Luiz but give him 60-70 mins at weekend with Tielemans at 10 and see how they go. Give Rogers a breather.

[itbrvilla]

Next week, they are absolutely going to park the bus and protect the 1-0.

And that is precisely what we struggle against.

Exactly what i'm thinking. Forest can smell the final.

Thank fuck they didn't go down to 10 as IMO were the worst team with aan advantage I've ever seen and that extends back to the late 90s.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Next week, they are absolutely going to park the bus and protect the 1-0.

And that is precisely what we struggle against.

The way they saw the game out they should be fairly confident of succeeding. They reminded me of us first half of the season.

[Pat McMahon]

I’m in Asia so have been out till after 4 am watching that so apologies for emotion.

Fuck me Digne what an idiot. Firstly I’m
Not sure he knew blonde boy was going for the ball and was slow to react. Secondly don’t wave your pissing arms in the air like a Honolulu dancer. Absolute amateur shite making the refs life simple when the ball just needed shepherding out.

They won all the midfield duels and were first to every second ball. We were tepid and off the pace all round the pitch. I honestly couldn’t name an outfield MOM.

[Vegas]

I thought we didn’t get much from the ref, they didn’t create much but neither did we. Buendia and Bogarde had shockers, but lots of our players a bit flat.  I’m just gutted to be honest. We’ve been better than Forest for a couple of years, but when it mattered we didn’t get big performances out of Rogers, Tielemans, Watkins, McGinn, just like Olympiacos.  Hopefully we pick things up next week but only Konsa, Martinez and Onana pre-injury come out with much credit tonight in our biggest game of the season.