Match thread - where is it.

[pebble]

First half got very scrappy.

Started well and should have had 2 or 3 shots on target but final ball has let us down again.

Figs started really well, shame he trod on the ball and picked up a booking for deliberately handling it on the ground.

Colback one stupid foul near their penalty area, but their player has since caught Colback twice, both likely yellow cards - ref has just given 2 free kicks. Lucky lad.

Lolley not really taking defenders on as he can, Ameobi not really on song, Grabban two half chances blocked. If we can step up a gear when we attack, we can win this.

 

[Basha73]

We are looking pretty solid without particularly threatening. We have made Blackburn look pretty toothless too though which bodes well.

If we hadn’t collapsed so often I would be fairly confident of a clean sheet.

 

[Calvin Plummer]

I guess at least we are still in the game for once.

 

[paz1967]

Colback is having a good game imo

looks sharper than he has done for sure

 

[InvincibleBrianMan]

Like SL never left. Reasonably solid, very little end product, boring as fuck.

but without the stupid goal(s) given away so far.

 

[MaltaRed]

This is a Sabri formation nd a Sabri performance, minus the goal conceded. To be honest, it seems to compensate for the no goal conceded we lost that bit of creativity ( tiny bit), that we had in the last game.
It's like Hughton is using this games a friendly after all he is still learning to know his squad.
On the players, quiet disappointment with Freeman, pretty much anonymous, same as Lolley ... Grabban is still on pre season form. Defence looks better ( apart fro that comic act by Figi, when he fell over nd started clutching his face ... lol ) ... Yates nd Colback covering well but dont expect defence splitting passes from them ... Ameobi...not innit and probably will be one of the first to be subbed.
As things stand I take a point ... if they nick a goal, I doubt we can claw a goal back...buf if it remains nil nil ....we might nick one...

 

[Lienking]

1 - who uses cash these days?

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Aston Villa ?

 

[NQ's Finest]

Mistake ridden first half from both teams. Pretty awful viewing but we‘re looking solid at the very least. Colback and Freeman have been the two best players on the entire pitch. 7m for Brereton!! Christ, we certainly had their pants down there...

 

[paz1967]

2 weeks prep i thought would be about scoring, i dont carre if we dont have a clean sheet all season personally , i want goals and thats the issue needed fixing for 6 months.

 

[MaltaRed]

Well we haven't conceded, probably best chances to us isn't pretty but we are looking more organised.

What chances? Only shot on goal was Christie's cross that hit the bar ...

 

[weejockmcplop]

We're away against a team at the top end of the table, focusing on attack when we haven't had a clean sheet in yonks would be silly.

 

[mr ron]

What chances? Only shot on goal was Christie's cross that hit the bar ...

More than they had. It's his first game he's not had long to work his ideas in so keeping it more or less the same, we seem to be pushing further up the pitch though to stop them pressing us in our final 3rd.

 

[paz1967]

We're away against a team at the top end of the table, focusing on attack when we haven't had a clean sheet in yonks would be silly.

its shit blackburn lol

 

[Lienking]

Passing terrible from both teams. We are playing longer ball, which Grabban will never win, but presumably hoping to pick up the second ball.

 

[mr ron]

We've dropped deeper for some reason.

 

[mr ron]

Colback was injured first half FFS, he's been playing much better.

 

[mr ron]

Yates best chance so far, couldn't keep it down.

 

[Pope John XXIII]

Can see us conceding a typical forest goal, a header from the big man Gallagher they've just brought on

 

[radfordinlondon]

I'll take a turgid 0-0 considering we rarely do well here and taking account of the team's comparative start to the season

Exactly, better than brian laws is giving credit

 

[mr ron]

Good defending Christy, Lolley is really not fit he's hardly run all game.