AdebolaCornflakes
Vital Football Legend
After my last match fred brought us endless good luck, let's keep this bitch going as we head into our second game of the season against dirty Leeds.
Match:
Leeds v Forest
Location:
Bellend Road
Kick-off:
12:30pm
Sausages:
Battered
Weather Forecast:
Highs of 20C with strong winds of up to 42mph forecast for lunchtime on Saturday. I'm hoping that we win the toss and kick with the wind, establishing a 20-0 lead at half time by simply shooting from anywhere.
Last League Meeting:
Forest 4-2 Leeds, 01st January 2019 - The final league game of Aitor Karanka's reign. After Jack Colback's opener, Leeds got a man sent off but we still did our best to throw it away, going 1-2 down in the second half. But another from Colback and goals from Murphy (yes, he actually scored) and our best midfielder of the last 10-years Ben Osborn sealed the victory.
Form:
Forest: L
Leeds: W
Last time out:
Forest 1-2 West Brom
Bristol City 1-3 Leeds
Injury/Suspension news:
Forest - Joao Carvalho may return to the bench after resuming training. Ryan Yates and Benalouane remain injured, and it will be a while before we see Darikwa again.
Leeds - TBC. I hope their squad is hit with a stomach virus tonight.
Pre-match ramble
After a wonderful opening 10 minutes to the season, the following 80 were dreadful and we limped to a 1-2 defeat at home to West Brom on opening day. I think most people were in agreement that we struggled to get players forward in numbers and generally were lacking in the final third, which makes our lack of signing a striker yesterday more bewildering.
It is still very early days and hopefully things will gradually improve as a new Manager and a fresh set of 150 new players bed in.
It's been a busy few days for us in the transfer window, bringing in Carl Jenkinson, John Bostock and Chema, plus we strengthened our goalkeeping options with the signing of Brice Samba. Everyone was mocking us but Lamouchi will have the last laugh when our first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth choice keepers get injured and we need to call upon Samba.
Leeds started the season with an impressive 3-1 win at Bristol City and they looked very good. Whilst they sold Kemar Roofe *cough* TWAT *cough* to Anderlecht (has there ever been a bigger match made in heaven?) they replaced him with Eddie Nketiah on loan from Arsenal, who could be an astute signing.
Predicted Starting XI:
Muric; Jenkinson, Worrall, Dawson, Robinson; Watson, Semedo; Adomah, Silva, Lolley; Grabban.
Prediction:
This is going to be a tough game. Leeds looked very good against Bristol City and I've got them tipped for promotion. I think it's going to be a long 90-minutes and I look forward to seeing this Fred reach an unprecedented 50 pages when the final score is:
Leeds 3-0 Forest
Sponsor:
Marco Polo PM'd me late last night asking if he could sponsor this Fred (along with several images containing some disturbing nudity) after his own request for a new forum thread was removed by The Fear.
Let's help find Marco a new home. Please PM him directly with suggestions for a new forum.
Je Suis Frontiers you bunch of pseuds!!