Great start, Forest been more in the game since and probably deserved the goal, Bowen up top has not worked IMO so far, he's hardly been involved, in all honesty apart from the early goal and the other chance Paqueta had we have hardly troubled their keeper. Elanga playing Coufal off the pitch also......
They’ve had more efforts on target than us and would have been leading but for the Areola save. Another instance of a post EL game where we don’t seem to be at it for long. What worries me more is we’ve conceded a lot of goals in the second halves of games but not scored many.
A very scrappy pedestrian game with no intensity. We are not pressing and are letting ?Forest have the ball. The experiment with Bowen as CF is not working and by the time Kudus gets the ball he is surrounded by three players. Need to change formation, tactics, players.
The Bowen experiment 10 games in shows how poorly we mucked up the transfer window.
The guy who the manager had said he sees as an option up front several times over the past few seasons is playing up front and that means we mucked up. Got it.
Our last league win was in September and unless we wake up quick it’s looking like it may be December before our next one. I’ve not done any checking but I wouldn’t be surprised if our league form over the last 7-8 games is one of the worst in the league.
Seeing as they have had more attempts, more on target, more corners than us it would seem ripe for counter attacking as we are not trying to break down any defence.
That was scary, thought they had us, especially as it looked suspiciosly close to a handball by the keeper as he seemed to leave it late to kick the ball as he reached the edge of the box (woulda been a suspect goal imo).
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What worries me more is we’ve conceded a lot of goals in the second halves of games but not scored many.
Need to change formation, tactics, players.
Not enough efforts on target.
Should be 2-1 down...fortunate...
Down the other end, Emerson shoots just wide.