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the second goal wasn’t great from okoli - needed to be tighter the third goal wasn’t great from faes - needed to make a decision I’d say our CB pairing was light years behind theirs

Their second goal wasn’t faes’ fault ? very strange to bring Ricky in and play an inverted full back - has cooper ever done that before ? It was almost as if he said to the players - ‘ok, you’ve moaned about not being allowed to play enzo’s formation from last season so go ahead and show me’. whilst we looked competent in the first half, they created marginally the better openings. to play an inverted full back against such a decent winger was odd indeed. Last season we’d play the settled full back on the side where the opposition had their best winger. Problem tonight is that forest have two v good wingers.

Chasing the game and they’ve looked way more likely to get a fourth

Fats has proved that he’s still as inconsistent as we expect probs better as an impact sub for now

Bomb scare this evening it happens from time to time with him when he seems to think he’s better than he is How any of our defenders can think that with our goals against is ridiculous but that wout for you

Winner of most disingenuous post of the evening 😄

Fair to say that we won’t see this enzo formation again this season would think the players have been asking to play this way and cooper possibly allowed it on the basis that we’ve won two the consequences may not be down to the formation but no one can argue a negative

It does make it a little easier to find winks but they have definitely got another midfielder pushed up into that press position than would be expected

No way is cooper going even more attacking unless we go behind and into the last twenty

Not with the number of corners they’re getting we’ve already got facundo having to mark Chris wood

I’m sure that @StriderHiryu will pick this up on his tactical analysis but it looks to me as though they’ve set up perfectly to cut off all passing lanes into Ricky how would they have prepared for that ?????.

Must have a knock cos Thomas is on the bench

Have sky finished talking about liverpool yet ?

Nah - cambiasso picked the team

It used to be released to the media 75 mins ahead of k/off and us mere mortals 60 mins now it’s 75 mins for everyone clearly some of the media get info

Half an hour extra planning for nuno theres absolutely nothing to be gained by leaking line ups and there’s plenty to lose As an example, if we’d known for sure that Everton were short at left back so would have to play young there then we might have made some plans re bringing fatawu on earlier than planned. Of course it’s only 39 mins but too level coaches can use that time productively

He scored for Burnley and he did celebrate - though it wasn’t a full on knee slide job

Politicians deciding how to run things outside politics is scary the independent regulator (assume won’t be one person ) should be looking at things and making judgments - not being prompted by politicians. If it looks like this then I doubt we’ll get anyone decent putting themselves forward for the regulator role.

You drank it all ???

Mate - it was the proper champions cup - every team a league winner. before all the ‘big teams’ bought all the best players Whilst malmo were clearly not the strongest team in the tournament, that’s what sometimes happens in cup competitions. (Remember tranmere?)

I have a feeling that if we stay up then mads may not get his move until the following summer - buying club may not be ready till then and he will want to be no1 for Denmark going into the World Cup. (If the buying club is Chelsea then could well be next summer.)

Not sure yet mac - more than tight enough for events over the next ten days to play their part

I hope this season doesnt end up with us having stuck him in the shop window ahead of his sale next summer to help psr

MGW makes a big difference no idea if he’ll be fit enough to play on Friday Hudson Odoi limped off aswell they’ll be a very good test playing wood means they’re happy to ‘stick it in the mixer’ (which we’ve never been great at dealing with)

No director of football worth their salt would have agreed to that ………