Nottingham Forest - Luton Town

[Strawberry Avenger]

Ribeiro  was poor last match. Chema deserves his place

Ribeiro (like Dawson who had his 'off' match) was coming back from no small injury and no surprise he did'n't perform well at Chelsea or the last match played out of position.  I suspect Rib' will be on the bench along with Dawson.

Chema deserves his place.  He's quite robust in the tackle.  We would do well to keep him if we can.

ThePromisedLand

I would like to believe we’ll be on the front foot.
Chema offers nothing going forward.
Hence Ribeiro to reclaim his place.

Whilst he offers 'nothing' going forwards, what's the point of offering 'something' going forwards if you leak goals by being out of position?  When you're 2-0 down offering 'something' going forwards is not enough.  Better Chema than either Jack or Rib' in that context. I believe our fullbacks are quite 'soft', particularly on the left side and we're operating with a converted RB on the other for 'practical' reasons. It's cost points by players being unable to 'stop the cross', being out of position or unable to defend their position or ball watching. Right now, I think Cash has been the best of our fullbacks. But he's serving his apprenticeship there and has done reasonably well. I think having some robust experience on the left back position balances the youth of Cash on the other side. Given Chema or Cash. You'd think they'd more likely target Cash vs a bone crunching tackle from Chema.

Our left side has been consistently targeted with Robinson playing at LB.  And, I'm quite sure, the opposition will be aware Rib' is coming back from injury and the opposition always 'gets at' players who've been out of injured.  Why?  Because they're not fully match fit.

Better to start out with 0-0, keep 0-0 and then 'pinch' the result.

That makes even more sense against teams like Reading or Luton who are...well, 2 dimensional to put it politely.  And using Huddersfield as example, they rattled Forest by using tactics and playing style 'worthy' of the Championship.  Forest have to be street wise.  it's already cost them 9 points tossing 'last minute' points away by being green around the ears instead of using their street smarts.

If that is what it takes with the current playing staff.  So be it.

SA.

[Turkish]

Chema will keep his place whilst they get minutes into Riberio legs good thing is you can keep him out of defense and use him as an offensive substitute, longer term what makes him so dangerous is going forward he is the secondary problem for the opposition, imagine a really good wide player in front of him, the more you get that right the more you neutralize his defensive shortcomings which aren't that much of an issue once he is match fit

Treated correctly he'll be flying in 2 to 3 weeks

[Jean_claude_killy]

Ribiero is not in the same class as Chema; not even close

I like Ribeiro and genuinely think he will be our Left Back of the future and is a decent prospect.

At the moment he plays second fiddle

[zicorice]

Ribiero is not in the same class as Chema; not even close

I like Ribeiro and genuinely think he will be our Left Back of the future and is a decent prospect.

At the moment he plays second fiddle

As left back, I would say it's the other way round.

[PsychoStanleyStone]

For us, This game is it, this is the big easy, this is going to be the very one sided classic where everyone gets on the scoresheet and the confidence infused by the ruthless, classy display will influence the teams results positively for months to come

For Luton, there is a players revolt simmering, they will concede early and capitulate, they want Nathan Jones and Paul Hart back, they worked an unprecedented miracle, loads and loads of goals and points only losing 37 games out of more than 170 over sllghtly more than 3 years including a play offs and 2 promotions, if they will change manager it will be after this game, they still have enough games to save themselves and some transfer window left

we are due a team in absolute full on capitulation mode, a team that needs to lose big, all had a late night saturday, got up late sunday and out the wrong side of bed, slow out the blocks, fighting with each other all that sort of stuff, surely we are due 1?  Welcome Luton Town FC

Can't see anything other than a thumping 6 Nil

[Rusty mechanic]

I really hope the team come out today with their sleeves rolled up and ready to crack on now as this is the perfect game to put in a dominant performance. West Brom and Leeds keep dangling that carrot as to say catch us if you can and it’s in our own hands now to do that and put ourselves in an auto spot. Massive game today in front of the cameras and it’s bloody freezing so wrap up ?

[wassy04]

This is way too early for a game!

[Username]

Luton: bottom of the league, not won away in ten. Match on tv. Opportunity to look like we might really be in the mix = guaranteed Forest win????

[Mad Squad]

Luton: bottom of the league, not won away in ten. Match on tv. Opportunity to look like we might really be in the mix = guaranteed Forest win????

No excuses today. We should/must win this game full stop.

[ThePromisedLand]

This is way too early for a game!

Try telling that to all the punters in the Larwood & Voce  :P

[wassy04]

This is way too early for a game!

Try telling that to all the punters in the Larwood & Voce  :P

Haha its been a good morning for the maccys I can tell you that much

[Joe Baker Legend]

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