Nottingham Forest - Manchester United

[willdared]

f*****g afcon.. trust it to be our players that get to the final, play in the final yet come back injured..

Shout out to Felipe by the way.. did something we all wish we could.. god knows how he wasn't sent off though

[Salvatore Matrecano]

Positives
Didn’t have to do extra time and knacker the team for Saturday
Don’t think we picked up more injuries
We matched them for about 70 mins
Almost everyone played well even if as a whole we could have done better

Negatives
We let them have a number of clear chances when they carved us open
Seemed to run out of steam badly last third
Ground full of tourists again and flat atmosphere

[The reds]

Positives
Didn’t have to do extra time and knacker the team for Saturday
Don’t think we picked up more injuries
We matched them for about 70 mins
Almost everyone played well even if as a whole we could have done better

Negatives
We let them have a number of clear chances when they carved us open
Seemed to run out of steam badly last third
Ground full of tourists again and flat atmosphere

Thought the midfield was very very open, could’ve put a lorry in the gap at times. What was the point of Reyna and Ribeiro. Also thought there was a lack of desire at times non of the players look like that are fighting for the shirt imo, probably a bit harsh but that’s my overriding feeling.

[Jacksbadhobbits]

Positives
Didn’t have to do extra time and knacker the team for Saturday
Don’t think we picked up more injuries
We matched them for about 70 mins
Almost everyone played well even if as a whole we could have done better

Negatives
We let them have a number of clear chances when they carved us open
Seemed to run out of steam badly last third
Ground full of tourists again and flat atmosphere

Thought the midfield was very very open, could’ve put a lorry in the gap at times. What was the point of Reyna and Ribeiro. Also thought there was a lack of desire at times non of the players look like that are fighting for the shirt imo, probably a bit harsh but that’s my overriding feeling.

Nagative
Nuno does not seem to be able to change tactics quickly enough during the game. Second half Utd pushed higher up the pitch and we had no answer

[ozzyten10]

Nuno worries me a bit as a one trick pony - 4231. Against Villa he was too slow to recognise the box midfield issue. Today amrabat started to dictate play from 60 minutes so he swapped over Elanga only to fail to recognise Dalot going with him- should have adjusted and pushed CHO inside but didn’t. Gave United an extra man in midfield.
Awonyi had another poor game and elangas brain fart for the free kick was poor. That said - we score that goal and what’s the betting we don’t get the VAR?
Feel he should have put Kouyate and Dominguez on early too. Kouyate would have been useful at that free kick!
His 4231 is starting to become very predictable and teams are just overloading it - this left MGW with amrabat and cassimero to try and press. It’s a shame Origi ran out of steam. Also why not give Reyna more than 5 minutes?

[Fumanchew]

Anyone else feel awoniyi isn’t letting himself strike the ball with full force yet?

[ozzyten10]

Shout out to Neco though - becoming very consistent and reliable with a great engine - looks a bit more pacy this year too.

Turner- thought goal was his fault but on watching it not at all. Decent saves tonight and only 2 mins kicks and one mid control

Neco - MOTM for us
Filipe- better than Villa
Murillo - passing radar not quite as good on his cross fields today - good pace
Toffolo - solid enough - lacks physicality for the Premiership
Danillo - very good first half and good with the ball- awful for the goal
Yates - decent - Marshalled McTominay and Fernandez well
MGW - industrious - good first half - still think we are missing a trick not playing him deeper
Elanga- frustrating today - didn’t back himself against Dalots pace
Origi- would have been MOTM if he didn’t fade so much
Awonyi - poor
CHO - not the same without Nuno

Reyna- surely worth 20 minutes tonight?
Rodrigo - maybe should have replaced Taiwo to have a decent look too.

[Reds73]

Think we're missing Chris Wood.....do we know when he's back??

After intl break, so 30th March

[Reds73]

Anyone else feel awoniyi isn’t letting himself strike the ball with full force yet?

He certainly did with the one that nearly cleared the Bridgford Stand
He’s not a clean striker of the ball anyway TBH

Needs minutes to get his sharpness

[BadDog]

Think we're missing Chris Wood.....do we know when he's back??

April

[Marco Polo]

Very questionable January transfer window yet again for me. The keeper seems better - let’s hope he’s not injured.

The other two are barely getting a kick - what was the point?

January is a tough window but we’ve signed benchwarmers that we already had

[Marco Polo]

HOWEVER

Look how far we’ve come - we’re containing Manchester United and disappointed we didn’t beat them

Imagine that two years ago