Through to the 5th round following an exhausting penalty shoot-out, we return to the business of staying up.
Bristol City:
The Good: our penalties.
The Bad: 120 minutes.
The Ugly: MGW injury? Hopefully nothing serious.
Special Mention: Gardner our academy player showed promise. A good loan for him Aguilera and Powell next season.
The Last Time we played (Newcastle (A) - a 3-1 win - this will be as close to full strength as we’ve been all year)
Turner
Montiel Niakhate Murillo Aina
Sangare Danilo
CHO MGW Elanga
Wood
Proposed Lineup:
Sels
Williams Omobamidele Murillo Tavares
Dominguez Yates
MGW
Elanga Awoniyi CHO
Subs:
Turner, Vlachula, Niakhate, Toffolo, Danilo, Gardner, Reyna, Origi, Ribeiro
Injuries: Montiel, Wood (possibly Felipe & MGW).
AFCON: Aina, Boly and Sangare.
Laughing @ Derby: The East Midlands.
Form:
Forest (H) - W1 D0 L5 GF7 GA12 - 16th (20th in the Home Form table)
Newcastle (A) - W1 D0 L5 GF6 GA15 - 9th (17th in the Away Form table)
Prediction:
Newcastle have a bit of an injury crisis, missing Pope, Gordon, Joelinton, Isak and about 5 others.
Since we beat them, they have only lost to Liverpool and Man City, but the 4-4 draw with Luton says there will be chances for us to win the game.
However, they have scored nine goals in 3 games with those injuries!
A 3-2 Forest win.
Final Words:
COYRs!!!!
Forest v Newcastle - Match Thread
posted on 10/2/24
It is if you keep gifting goals at the rate we are.
posted on 10/2/24
comment by reddave (U8660)
posted 2 minutes ago
It is if you keep gifting goals at the rate we are.
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To be fair this result is down to the Ref getting 2 big decision wrong
posted on 10/2/24
We offer absolutely nothing in the last third of the pitch, when the ball goes into the penalty area, we never seem to have anyone near the ball.
The performance may have been decent, but that won’t keep you in the prem, i have serious doubts that we have the ability to stay up. All 3 goals conceded were so easily preventable, but we just keep gifting the opposition. I even doubt that Nuno will see the season out.
posted on 10/2/24
Don’t for a minute think this was a good Newcastle team, it certainly wasn’t, we just have NOTHING to offer up front, Awoniyi had two wonderful chances, similar to last week, but just fluffed his lines. Origi is anonymous, Wood missing for a couple of months, where are we going to get the goals to stay up ??
posted on 10/2/24
Now SKY have changed their view on the pen and saying Newcastle got away with one. During the game they were saying Awoniyi should have stayed on his feet
posted on 10/2/24
What is the point of VAR, like FoF, above, I’ve been watching Sky analyse the ‘penalty’ shout, it took them less than a minute to show the angle that proves it was a penalty, the keeper definitely takes Awoniyi’s feet, surely they should at the very least asked Taylor to have another look. VAR really is a waste of space. It’s not fit for purpose, scrap it.
posted on 10/2/24
comment by reddave (U8660)
posted 18 minutes ago
What is the point of VAR, like FoF, above, I’ve been watching Sky analyse the ‘penalty’ shout, it took them less than a minute to show the angle that proves it was a penalty, the keeper definitely takes Awoniyi’s feet, surely they should at the very least asked Taylor to have another look. VAR really is a waste of space. It’s not fit for purpose, scrap it.
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What makes it worse is there was less contact for Newcastles pen at their place.
posted on 10/2/24
Come the end of the season, that result could prove massive. Even the Sky pundits are starting to ‘fear’ for Forest, and i for one have to agree.
Nuno sounds very calm and level headed, but then again so did Cooper.
posted on 10/2/24
comment by reddave (U8660)
posted 26 minutes ago
Come the end of the season, that result could prove massive. Even the Sky pundits are starting to ‘fear’ for Forest, and i for one have to agree.
Nuno sounds very calm and level headed, but then again so did Cooper.
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Those same ‘pundits’ feared for us until we beat Arsenal last season, despite our progress in the second half of that campaign and the uselessness of the teams below us being obvious from January onwards.
We’ve got a lower home points haul but don’t see why the current malaise (started under Coops) has to be terminal plus we have already doubled our away wins tally. We’re clearly a bigger threat on the road now which I think will be telling, especially in the remaining matches against teams in the bottom half. Let’s see what Nuno can do against those sides with today’s squad growing in fitness.
posted on 10/2/24
If you want absolute confirmation of how poor VAR really is, or the crettins interpreting it, even Shearer and Keown on MOTD feel it was a penalty. You really can’t get greater confirmation than that.
I don’t understand why the VAR operator didn’t send Taylor to look at the monitor at least, another strange and baffling VAR decision.