Barnsley - Nottingham Forest

[optimistic_red]

Part of the reason for the poor level of pass accuracy is that we are playing longer percentage balls, we were very direct yesterday.

I’m not convinced we have the height and dominance in the final third to make that pay consistently.

Against Barnsley the midfield do not look for the ball in possession. We have 1 tactic, which is to advance down the wings. Barnsley would get extra bodies there to stop us, and we very rarely switched the play. It often looked like we hadn't played together (which they hadn't).
DaCosta was one of the few players who had energy, L Taylor also when he came on, but as a whole Barnsley wanted it more. Styles for Barnsley was a pest when we had the ball but also effective for them when they had the ball, hopefully Colback can emulate.

Thought that was Ribero's worse game.
Carvalho is so ineffectual. Why he isn't the worse player we have ever signed, he could be the worst signing.

[wassy04]

Part of the reason for the poor level of pass accuracy is that we are playing longer percentage balls, we were very direct yesterday.

I’m not convinced we have the height and dominance in the final third to make that pay consistently.

Against Barnsley the midfield do not look for the ball in possession. We have 1 tactic, which is to advance down the wings. Barnsley would get extra bodies there to stop us, and we very rarely switched the play. It often looked like we hadn't played together (which they hadn't).
DaCosta was one of the few players who had energy, L Taylor also when he came on, but as a whole Barnsley wanted it more. Styles for Barnsley was a pest when we had the ball but also effective for them when they had the ball, hopefully Colback can emulate.

Thought that was Ribero's worse game.
Carvalho is so ineffectual. Why he isn't the worse player we have ever signed, he could be the worst signing.

Carvalho played fine, he made some interceptions and some decent forward balls. I feel like some people just want him to be bad. If we had won that game with the same performance for him, he'd be praised this week

[kez007]

The main problem's came form samba having the ball. The 1st 15/20 he played it out short and we looked o.k.
Then Ribeiro and blackett kept giving the ball away that often that samba would no longer pass to them and started aimlessly hoofing the ball down field.
We desperately need a defender who is comfortable with the ball, and is able to work it into midfield.

[optimistic_red]

Part of the reason for the poor level of pass accuracy is that we are playing longer percentage balls, we were very direct yesterday.

I’m not convinced we have the height and dominance in the final third to make that pay consistently.

Against Barnsley the midfield do not look for the ball in possession. We have 1 tactic, which is to advance down the wings. Barnsley would get extra bodies there to stop us, and we very rarely switched the play. It often looked like we hadn't played together (which they hadn't).
DaCosta was one of the few players who had energy, L Taylor also when he came on, but as a whole Barnsley wanted it more. Styles for Barnsley was a pest when we had the ball but also effective for them when they had the ball, hopefully Colback can emulate.

Thought that was Ribero's worse game.
Carvalho is so ineffectual. Why he isn't the worse player we have ever signed, he could be the worst signing.

Carvalho played fine, he made some interceptions and some decent forward balls. I feel like some people just want him to be bad. If we had won that game with the same performance for him, he'd be praised this week

I would love Carvalho to be great. But I have to disagree about his performance. That said in fairness no-one was great.

[wassy04]

Part of the reason for the poor level of pass accuracy is that we are playing longer percentage balls, we were very direct yesterday.

I’m not convinced we have the height and dominance in the final third to make that pay consistently.

Against Barnsley the midfield do not look for the ball in possession. We have 1 tactic, which is to advance down the wings. Barnsley would get extra bodies there to stop us, and we very rarely switched the play. It often looked like we hadn't played together (which they hadn't).
DaCosta was one of the few players who had energy, L Taylor also when he came on, but as a whole Barnsley wanted it more. Styles for Barnsley was a pest when we had the ball but also effective for them when they had the ball, hopefully Colback can emulate.

Thought that was Ribero's worse game.
Carvalho is so ineffectual. Why he isn't the worse player we have ever signed, he could be the worst signing.

Carvalho played fine, he made some interceptions and some decent forward balls. I feel like some people just want him to be bad. If we had won that game with the same performance for him, he'd be praised this week

I would love Carvalho to be great. But I have to disagree about his performance. That said in fairness no-one was great.

I'm not saying he set the world alight, he just wasn't one of our weakest players. Genuinely felt he had a solid performance, and showed more fight than previous

[Username]

The main problem's came form samba having the ball. The 1st 15/20 he played it out short and we looked o.k.
Then Ribeiro and blackett kept giving the ball away that often that samba would no longer pass to them and started aimlessly hoofing the ball down field.
We desperately need a defender who is comfortable with the ball, and is able to work it into midfield.

That was down to Sabri, Samba wasn’t following his instructions for the first 15/20 minutes and then did.