C.G Tuesday 1945
I had to search the table to find Luton, a sort of invisible team. I found them two places above us on 41 points, they have the worst goal difference of any team in the top half of the table.
Their top scorer, James Collins [10] seems to be out of form at the moment and only made the bench for their come back triumph against the Wendies.
After a very poor first half manager Nathan Jones shuck things up a bit.
'Nathan Jones made three changes at half-time whilst changing to a diamond formation in an attempt to turn the tide in the second half, introducing Glen Rea, Harry Cornick and Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu in place of Martin Cranie, Joe Morrell and Tom Ince.
In a breathless second half where the Hatters dominated every aspect of play, Elijah Adebayo completed an unbelievable comeback by giving Luton the lead with five minutes to play. Harry Cornick raced down the right flank, clipping to the back post to Adebayo who rose highest to head home at the near post.'
Elijah Adebayo is the man in form up front, he's played 2, scored 2 with 1 assist. He scored the 86th minute winner.
Forest will need to find a sharper cutting edge against Luton, than they managed against Derby, squandering two points again by failing to finish the game off. Two goals would have won the game, however two goals are not guaranteed to beat Luton on current form.
I suspect we will need to score more than one goal to get anything from the game. Luton concede a few so we need to capitalise and convert chances into goals
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posted on 3/3/21
comment by Morninchile (U18154)
posted about 10 hours ago
2 mistakes in a row for Figs. He needs dropping again. The David Luiz of the Championship.
Taylor - ineffective again. Lolley also.
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Taylor talks the talk, be he ain’t the answer to our goals plus tally. He’s just not good enough.
posted on 3/3/21
comment by reddave (U8660)
posted about 13 hours ago
We’ll be lucky to get more than 4 points out of the next 15 and that’s being optimistic. We won’t get dragged back into the relegation scrap because the teams beneath us aren’t good enough to capitalise, the problem is we are not moving forward, in fact we are only just treading water, can’t see the Mad Greek putting up with that beyond the season.
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I can Dave. Unless he unearths a Nuno Espirito kind of manager then Hughton is the best we can hope for.
posted on 3/3/21
I guess we are all deflated perhaps we were starting to dream of sneaking in at 6.
We need to remain calm and get to the end of the season the main objective is to avoid relegation.
We are in a much better position than the start of the season.
Let start with a point at Watford and move on.
posted on 3/3/21
Agree Doha. We need to manage our own expectations. Mid-table is the best we can expect this season but we are in a decent position to plan for next season.
Hopefully we can keep Knockaert and Garner next season. If not we can still be OK.
The back 5 is fine with some good cover: Smith, Bong, Mbe Soh, Figs.
DM - If Garner does not return we have Yates and Cafu.
The front four badly needs boosting; more goals and more pace. It will be expensive, and we need to get it right. Sirike Dembele, Charlie Wyke, Luke Jephcott would be good targets
posted on 3/3/21
One of the biggest disappointments of last night, apart from losing, was the lack of impact from any of our subs, I often think we have one of the strongest bench’s in the Championship, but their impact last night was negligible. From the moment Luton scored we were like Rabbits in headlights, completely clueless. Don’t know whether CH got the substitutions wrong it the players just couldn’t be bothered. Until we find someone to convert some of our chances we are going to struggle. We are going to become Nottingham Forest Nil, again.
posted on 3/3/21
Leaving Murray on when he was clearly a spent force was bizarre. He fluffed a simple chance after two minutes so I didn’t expect him to score in the last half hour. Knockaert should have stayed on. I would also have changed to 3-4-3 formation
posted on 3/3/21
comment by Redfor60yrs (U2973)
posted 12 hours, 47 minutes ago
comment by Morninchile (U18154)
posted 7 hours ago
2 mistakes in a row for Figs. He needs dropping again. The David Luiz of the Championship.
Taylor - ineffective again. Lolley also.
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It was Cafu not tracking back for their goal.
The chance was similar to Murray,s in the second minute. He took his chance Murray didn’t.
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Cafu and Figs - just looked at the replay again. I'd drop both. Bring in Soh and Yates.
posted on 3/3/21
comment by Redfor60yrs (U2973)
posted about 3 hours ago
Leaving Murray on when he was clearly a spent force was bizarre. He fluffed a simple chance after two minutes so I didn’t expect him to score in the last half hour. Knockaert should have stayed on. I would also have changed to 3-4-3 formation
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Knockart didn’t look happy to be subbed.
posted on 3/3/21
Knockaert was excellent in the first half but went AWOL in the second, along with quite a few others. Cafu offers little threat in the final third, in fact it’s becoming obvious how integral Yates is to us, he is one of the few midfielders who offer a route to a goal. Too many sat back and meekly accepted defeat.
posted on 4/3/21
Yates is also the only midfielder to be brave enough to get in the opponents box. He has been knocked by some for putting headers over the bar more than once; but have any other midfielders been getting in there to be on the end of balls into the box. He's a different player to Cafu though; at the moment Cafu is asked to stay in front of Figs and Worrall. Garner is the one getting more advanced