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Forest vs Villareal match thread

Pope John XXIII said:
I thought we looked really good. Second half was better, but I have no idea what Villereal did to their team with he subs and how strong their team was at different points.

We certainly took control and had some outstanding one touch passing in that second half, with decent play in the first half

Negatives

- rusty passing
- too easy to shut down our wide players in the first half
- Elanga wide right was meh.
- Williams had one of his games where he just didn't look good enough. Worried me.
- couldn't score, obviously
-Dominguez's hair, which I can only describe as mid 90s David Beckham

Positives

- Anderson looked outstanding. As in, better than MGW outstanding. Some of the things he can do I have rarely ever seen a forest played do. Really drove us forward when he came on. Not sure how you accommodate both him and MGW

- Danilo and Sangare were a promising partnership in midfield. Sangare continued his good pre season and really ran the show.

- Milenkovic showed really good international experience and complimented Murillo well

-Aina was excellent. He is a great, physical PL fullback

-Yates I thought was brilliant when he came on.

- Awoniyi immediately put the shit up them as soon as he came on. He missed a chance, got muscled out of one (barely) but as soon as he was on, they had problems. One ball in to him and he's in and their defence shits itself.

- Wood also had chances and it took a point blank reaction save to stop him scoring a great volley.

- I liked the new RB. He looked more assured than Williams did.

- Toffolo did really well when he came on.


We should have scored at some point. Should have had a penalty too. We had them penned in for the final third of the game. We still have options to integrate into the wings. I thought we looked good.

First experience of the away end and I inadvertently got to be one of the first people to try the new safe standing
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Pope did Miguel come on ? Do we lack a cutting edge?
 
Pope John XXIII said:
I thought we looked really good. Second half was better, but I have no idea what Villereal did to their team with he subs and how strong their team was at different points.

We certainly took control and had some outstanding one touch passing in that second half, with decent play in the first half

Negatives

- rusty passing
- too easy to shut down our wide players in the first half
- Elanga wide right was meh.
- Williams had one of his games where he just didn't look good enough. Worried me.
- couldn't score, obviously
-Dominguez's hair, which I can only describe as mid 90s David Beckham

Positives

- Anderson looked outstanding. As in, better than MGW outstanding. Some of the things he can do I have rarely ever seen a forest played do. Really drove us forward when he came on. Not sure how you accommodate both him and MGW

- Danilo and Sangare were a promising partnership in midfield. Sangare continued his good pre season and really ran the show.

- Milenkovic showed really good international experience and complimented Murillo well

-Aina was excellent. He is a great, physical PL fullback

-Yates I thought was brilliant when he came on.

- Awoniyi immediately put the shit up them as soon as he came on. He missed a chance, got muscled out of one (barely) but as soon as he was on, they had problems. One ball in to him and he's in and their defence shits itself.

- Wood also had chances and it took a point blank reaction save to stop him scoring a great volley.

- I liked the new RB. He looked more assured than Williams did.

- Toffolo did really well when he came on.


We should have scored at some point. Should have had a penalty too. We had them penned in for the final third of the game. We still have options to integrate into the wings. I thought we looked good.

First experience of the away end and I inadvertently got to be one of the first people to try the new safe standing
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Anderson sounds promising then
 
toms said:
Pope did Miguel come on ? Do we lack a cutting edge?
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Miguel came on but had nothing to do. He is huge.

I wouldn't say lack of cutting edge. They had a good defence. They finished 8th in La Liga and have only finished below that once in about 10 years. We should have scored, but we had players who were rusty, ball not dropping for us, good defending and a bit of bad luck at times.

One shot in the crowded area was clearly blocked by a hand.
 
finbar70 said:
Could we accommodate Anderson and MGW mainly in away games by dropping Elanga and having a 4-3-3..?
Anderson, Danilo, Sangare and MGW floating behind Taiwo or Wood?

How did Sangare look? PL ready at last?
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Not really, that would involve MGW being on the wing and it doesn't work. Anderson might actually do that better

Sangare missed his passes a couple of times but that languid style of his just looked calm and assured. Once he latched on to one of their attackers they had very little chance of shrugging him off. Looked potentially dangerous on the edge of their area.

Think of the Declan Rice role for England, but without always passing it sideways or back
 
flipleflem said:
This is a different Forest from previous years. We are still looking to counter attack but play with a lot more possession. What I find encouraging is that every player is comfortable on the ball, not just the starting 11, but all 9 subs looked capable.
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Yes they all looked comfortable on the ball in previous friendlies I thought

Some more than others though still of course
 
Thewolf/jimmygordon said:
That would immediately explain Williams and Aina looking poor as I saw people saying on twitter

Assuming they were the full backs

They always look half as good when playing in a 4
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Thought both Williams and Aina did well. Murillo didn't have a good game, his long range passes didn't come off but was still very combatative.
 
Only a friendly but Villarreal are a good side. Given the new players we were bedding in and the players like Sangare and Awoniyi reintegrating, we looked like we were a match for them.

Awoniyi showed in 10 minutes why we need to keep him fit. He causes absolute chaos in defences with his power and pace.

Sangare looks quality but I can’t decide who should partner him. Anderson is finding his feet, building confidence and he could be a huge player for us.

Milenkovic is a massive upgrade on what we have had before.

Can’t wait for the friendly against Oly and am really up for this season…
 
flipleflem said:
Thought both Williams and Aina did well. Murillo didn't have a good game, his long range passes didn't come off but was still very combatative.
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Wolf would have liked it. Apart from the pen, he defended very well and did little going forward.

Except... He went on a very direct driving run but the ball just got away from his and he ended up body checking their #8 who then went off injured. Probably just winded. It was a highlight though. 😂
 
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