Barnsley - Nottingham Forest

[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