Forest post match 3-1 loss

[Mendi]

Bad lost.

[enmac]

Why wasn't Skip brought on? Would have at least helped defensively.

[kenny]

3 minutes ago, J. James said:

Yep, a shambles, the very team that the majority of the Cooperout simpletons were screaming for!

And it was useless!

 

And if you lot had been picking the team instead of "the worst manager"?

 

We'd be bottom with no points.

 

I'll take Cooper over armchair experts any day of the week.

It needs vestergaard no doubt. Whilst both faes and okoli have positive qualities vestergaard and coady to an extent have a calmness and passing ability that they don't.

 

What's clear as well from today, is that it doesn't matter how well you set up, even the most mid table of premier league manager will come up with something to counteract it. Unfortunately for Cooper, he doesn't have the skills to deal with a mid table tactician.

[burleighfox]

Inverted fullback tactic 🤢🤢

[LCFCfoxes12]

Other than the goal were all our other attempts speculative efforts from distance? We simply don’t look like we know how to attack other slinging it wide and a hopeful (hopeless) cross comes in and drifts out or to their GK. The second half was abysmal. How do they suddenly come out so bad (credit to Forest, they looked so up for it after the break, and should have had more goals, as much as it irks me they’ve recruited well, with some bargains in there and are well coached - we can dream of that once more!). 

[Gamble92]

6 minutes ago, LCFCfoxes12 said:

Other than the goal were all our other attempts speculative efforts from distance? We simply don’t look like we know how to attack other slinging it wide and a hopeful (hopeless) cross comes in and drifts out or to their GK. The second half was abysmal. How do they suddenly come out so bad (credit to Forest, they looked so up for it after the break, and should have had more goals, as much as it irks me they’ve recruited well, with some bargains in there and are well coached - we can dream of that once more!). 

Still rather have had our last 10 years than theirs thought wouldn't you lad 

[Patrick]

15 minutes ago, enmac said:

Why wasn't Skip brought on? Would have at least helped defensively.

I still can't believe the clown brought Soumare on.

[Kasey Keller]

Viktor was jettisoned I see…

[Tuna]

17 minutes ago, Kasey Keller said:

Viktor was jettisoned I see…

Injured

[BlackFox]

What a shit show 🤦🏿‍♂️

[Gamble92]

1 hour ago, Patrick said:

I still can't believe the clown brought Soumare on.

That was me done. I had to go for a walk 

[Gamble92]

As a recovering alcoholic I'm pleased to say Cooper made me unrecover and I'm laying in a skip close to Frog Island if anyone wants to rescue me in the morning. 

 

I have a chicken kebab on my head and a bit of chilli sauce 

 

AND I STILL CANT GET OVER BRINGING ON SOUMARE 

 

IS HE TAKING THE PISS?

 

I was willing to accept him. I lived in Nottingham all my life. I still accepted you. Soumare? 3-1 down? Soumare? Really? Really?

 

 

[BenTheFox]

Every goal we conceded was preventable. However, the difference in quality between the two managers was very evident. They shut us down perfectly in the second half. It's no coincidence that they've gone from strength to strength and haven't looked back since sacking Cooper and replacing him with a decent manager at this level.

Edited 26 October 2024 by BenTheFox

[trabuch]

2 hours ago, enmac said:

Why wasn't Skip brought on? Would have at least helped defensively.

We were losing - we had nothing to bring on. (we do - but they weren't on the bench) - sorry - I forgot we brought Soumare on. Who really doesn't want to be here. Unlike the talented youth we have from the academy..

 

Edited 26 October 2024 by trabuch

[Leeds Fox]

Watched it in the pub, in Leeds. Locals had us down as massive value at 2/1. When the team came out it seemed like what we’ve been waiting for. 
 

Not sure what or how but we got dominated (from watching on TV). 
 

Just grateful to see another Vardy goal. I feel like I’m watching a close relative pass with Vardy this season… and this is coming from a very cold man who doesn’t show emotion. I’m sad about this. I’m gonna miss him, his goals, his personality, him being our identity.

 

Need 3pts next time out before a horrid run in! 

Edited 26 October 2024 by Leeds Fox

[Dan]

If there's any game that encapsulates just how far backwards we've actually gone its that. We are just miles off a team like Forest now - and that is ridiculous, unthinkable probably 2/3 years ago. They were brilliant and that pains me to say it. We did well in the first half but that second half - good ****ing god. That's about as dire a half as I've ever seen from us. Like unforgivably bad.

[Tom12345]

6 hours ago, hejammy said:

You said it here, the first half it worked, Nuno figured out how to combat our box 4 and Cooper just stuck to it without a clue as to what to do. That's why Forest were better in the second half as we actually have a manager who is tactically inept 

Yeah, just watched a post match interview with the Forest captain Yates. He said Leicester surprised them first half, playing a box in midfield with Ricardo and Winks both being “comfortable on the ball” and there were just the two of them (on the Forest side) in midfield not knowing who of the deep lying midfielders to press, so both Ricardo and Winks got to be freer to run our midfield.  So again, it reinforced the notion that having Ricardo inverting is good and not having Ndidi there is logical - it is something that opposition teams are very conscious of. Yates said they talked about it at halftime and made a few tweaks with their fullbacks coming in to help. I guess we didn’t really know whether that really was the reason why we failed the second half in fairness to Cooper - as Cooper and Nunos both said post match the early second half goal put us on the back foot straight away.

 

What I want to really say is I think we were on to something first half. We just need to rid ourselves of our self inflicted implosions with our individual defensive lapses. 

Edited 26 October 2024 by Tom12345

[nnfox]

We were bereft of creative attacking ideas against a well organised defence and made Sunday League errors at the back.  It's a fatal combination.

 

Second half, can't deny that Forest were better than us.

[nnfox]

6 hours ago, J. James said:

Yep, a shambles, the very team that the majority of the Cooperout simpletons were screaming for!

And it was useless!

 

And if you lot had been picking the team instead of "the worst manager"?

 

We'd be bottom with no points.

 

I'll take Cooper over armchair experts any day of the week.

On paper, that was about our best team.  For me it highlights the lack of depth.  There's not much on the bench that can come on and change a game.  You always need a plan B.  When you set up with a strong Plan A, but it doesn't work, it's done.

[Pliskin]

A team with no clear plan, playing with no identity makes poor choices and poor mistakes.

 

 

We have got to drop this mindset that individual errors are entirely the players fault. Is the team isn’t set up correctly and there’s no structure plan in place the players will make errors. Tonight you could just see it, every time a player put their foot on the ball there was no real idea as to what they wanted to do next. Forest knew this, first half out shape caught them by surprise, but second half Nuno clearly told them we’ve not got a clue what we’re doing both in and out of possession, they applied a bit of pressure and we folded like a deck chair. 
 

Cooper can’t be defended after tonight, it just proves how out of his depth he actually is, and then to add insult to injury he brings on Soumare over Skipp??

 

He’s got to go, it’s a gamble keeping in his post, his tactical inadequacies are glaringly obvious, and it’s clear this team isn’t well drilled or well coached. 
 

I think our game play literally is get the ball to Buonanotte and just hope he can run through the entire team, we play football like an under 12’s team.  
 

Furthermore, why is a lad on loan from Brighton look like the only one who gives a shit? All round an embarrassing evening, and it’s the start reminder of how badly this club has been run….

 

Cooper should have got back on that coach to Nottingham at full time.

Edited 26 October 2024 by Pliskin

[VintageFox73]

Cooper given a backhander by the fat greasy greek to throw the game !

[Beachyboy]

8 hours ago, JimJams said:

Bad enough that a struggling Wolves didn't want him.  Bad enough that he couldn't get into a very nearly relegated Everton side who didn't want to keep him on in a cut price deal despite having other defenders leave the club and needing reinforcements.  Bad enough that one of the most maligned players in recent memory took his place for the entirety of a championship campaign and he never got a look in.  Bad enough that under a new manager he still couldn't force his way into the side despite that manager favouring premier league experience.  Bad enough that his only contribution this season has been to come on and give away a penalty in a 7 minute cameo preventing our first win of the season.

 

 

So, how bad does that make him?  Michael Jackson bad?

Contract expires June 2026, you'd expect at this rate he will just be released. I don't see any transfer fee being retrieved.

[AKCJ]

6 hours ago, Chrysalis said:

Sorry need to call this one out, the first goal conceded happened in the period of play after Ricardo lost possession, I will also add it was an unforced error as he wasnt even under pressure.

 

The first goal has been really interesting, as despite Ricardo being at fault many people blamed JJ anyway.

 

A few have admitted they did see it after I pointed out Ricardo's mistake but they let it go, I expect people are watching JJ like a hawk every game now as well.

So much happens after Ricardo's mistake.

 

We recovered and then Facundo tries to dribble out of our box.

 

Then we recovered again and Justin shanks a clearance straight to Yates.

[Phenom]

7 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

Jordan Ayew was utterly useless today.

When hasn’t he been?

[winteriscoming]

Actually thought Edourd was coming on for Ndidi. Which should of been done earlier and play 2 up front. No not with this prat. Soumare ffs. 
Villa got Emery in with them 3 points above the drop zone. Get him gone asap. 
Plenty of better options available.