Nottingham Forest - Burnley

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

To be played on Monday 18 September 2023.

At the world famous City Ground in Nottingham.

Kick off is at 19:45.

COYR!

[McDurban]

The most keenly anticipated team sheet in a while. 
Lots of questions.
Dominguez & Sangare, who will start, who will be on the bench?
Possible debuts off the bench for Origi.
Will Murillo make the bench?
Does Hudson-Odoi still have work to do on the training ground?
Will Niakate dislodge McKenna who had a great game v Chelsea?
Will we see a 4 or a 5 at the back?

[northeastred]

One of the strongest squads now. Should be no excuses not to play our strongest team, and attack and win the game, no way should we be going defensive 5 at the back at home

[Salvatore Matrecano]

Who is your midfield 3 then?

Who is dropped from Yates Mangala and Danilo (if fit).

[Salvatore Matrecano]

One of the strongest squads now. Should be no excuses not to play our strongest team, and attack and win the game, no way should we be going defensive 5 at the back at home

What’s suddenly wrong with 532 or 352 whichever way you want to call it?

[northeastred]

One of the strongest squads now. Should be no excuses not to play our strongest team, and attack and win the game, no way should we be going defensive 5 at the back at home

What’s suddenly wrong with 532 or 352 whichever way you want to call it?

Just think at home we should be scoring as many as possible, and save our nitty gritty stuff away from home against big teams, and try to see off overs away from home with more than scrappy draws or 1.0 wins. I can't handle been on edge and nerves for 80 mins after scoring first ha. We have a top ten squad now. Hopefully we start playing like one

[Reds73]

Who is your midfield 3 then?

Who is dropped from Yates Mangala and Danilo (if fit).

Sangare should be a certain starter, and I think Mangala is the one likely to be on the bench.
If playing a 3 then it’s Sangare, Danilo plus either Yates or Domingues 

I think Danilo is likely to be out with his hamstring, so depending on how we set up I think Sangare, Yates and Domingues would be the likely 3

[Forest1970]

Who is your midfield 3 then?

Who is dropped from Yates Mangala and Danilo (if fit).

Sangare should be a certain starter, and I think Mangala is the one likely to be on the bench.
If playing a 3 then it’s Sangare, Danilo plus either Yates or Domingues 

I think Danilo is likely to be out with his hamstring, so depending on how we set up I think Sangare, Yates and Domingues would be the likely 3

That would be my choice of 3 in the midfield with Danilo coming back in for Yates when fit but either way what a strong midfield we have now and I think some teams will worry about it now.

[Salvatore Matrecano]

One of the strongest squads now. Should be no excuses not to play our strongest team, and attack and win the game, no way should we be going defensive 5 at the back at home

What’s suddenly wrong with 532 or 352 whichever way you want to call it?

Just think at home we should be scoring as many as possible, and save our nitty gritty stuff away from home against big teams, and try to see off overs away from home with more than scrappy draws or 1.0 wins. I can't handle been on edge and nerves for 80 mins after scoring first ha. We have a top ten squad now. Hopefully we start playing like one

That’s fine
But are you saying 4231 at home?

[Reds73]

One of the strongest squads now. Should be no excuses not to play our strongest team, and attack and win the game, no way should we be going defensive 5 at the back at home

What’s suddenly wrong with 532 or 352 whichever way you want to call it?

Just think at home we should be scoring as many as possible, and save our nitty gritty stuff away from home against big teams, and try to see off overs away from home with more than scrappy draws or 1.0 wins. I can't handle been on edge and nerves for 80 mins after scoring first ha. We have a top ten squad now. Hopefully we start playing like one

That’s fine
But are you saying 4231 at home?

From what Coops is saying he wants to be able to go from 3-4-3 to 4-3-3 during games.
There are certain players that are instrumental to this, such as Niakhate and Sangare.

So I don’t think we will be shoe horned into a specific formation.

[wassy04]

One of the strongest squads now. Should be no excuses not to play our strongest team, and attack and win the game, no way should we be going defensive 5 at the back at home

What’s suddenly wrong with 532 or 352 whichever way you want to call it?

Just think at home we should be scoring as many as possible, and save our nitty gritty stuff away from home against big teams, and try to see off overs away from home with more than scrappy draws or 1.0 wins. I can't handle been on edge and nerves for 80 mins after scoring first ha. We have a top ten squad now. Hopefully we start playing like one

Since when do we have a top ten squad? We sold our best attacking player and replaced him with a plethora of unproven (but potentially good players). We strengthened in midfield but are weaker at LB than last year, we're weaker in goal and we're weaker at CB right now until Felipe is fit. 

How has our squad suddenly gone from relegation battlers to top 10?

This isn't being negative btw, just trying to reign in some expectations.

[wassy04]

One of the strongest squads now. Should be no excuses not to play our strongest team, and attack and win the game, no way should we be going defensive 5 at the back at home

What’s suddenly wrong with 532 or 352 whichever way you want to call it?

Just think at home we should be scoring as many as possible, and save our nitty gritty stuff away from home against big teams, and try to see off overs away from home with more than scrappy draws or 1.0 wins. I can't handle been on edge and nerves for 80 mins after scoring first ha. We have a top ten squad now. Hopefully we start playing like one

That’s fine
But are you saying 4231 at home?

From what Coops is saying he wants to be able to go from 3-4-3 to 4-3-3 during games.
There are certain players that are instrumental to this, such as Niakhate and Sangare.

So I don’t think we will be shoe horned into a specific formation.

I would imagine we'll start every game as 343 and switch to 4 if we are looking for a goal. Ideally we can play attacking, winning football in 343 then we don't have a problem!

Elanga in for Danilo is already a big attacking change (if fit)

If we're predicting teams (based on the assumption that everyone is fit):

Turner
Worrall McKenna Boly
Aurier Sangare Yates Aina
MGW Elanga
Taiwo