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N Forest v Swans

keith margam

Vital Football Legend
League Form Guide last 6 matches:

Forest D W L W L D. W2 D2 L2 F6 A6 Pts8

16/3 Ipswich 1 - Forest 1
13/3 Forest 1 - Villa 3
9/3 Forest 3 - Hull 0
2/3 Stoke 2 - Forest 0
25/2 Forest 1 - Derby 0
16/2 Preston 0 - Forest 0

Swans W L L W L L W2 D0 L4 F5 A9 Pts6

13/3 WBA 3 - Swans 0
8/3 Norwich 1 - Swans 0
2/3 Swans 2 - Bolton 0
23/2 S Wed 3 - Swans 1
13/2 Leeds 2 - Swans 1
9/2 Swans 1 - Millwall 0

Our league form isn’t too clever. Our away results have been very poor with five straight defeats.
 
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Pantilimon at 6’8” stopped everything in the air, boy could we do with him in our side. Nordfelt made one great save but failed to dominate his area. Two late goals, both corners, both headers told the story. We cannot defend set pieces, same all season.
We dominated possession but often hesitated to get shots on goal. One rare shot and McBurnie missed a sitter, shooting over when it was easier to score.
The ref was crap again and allowed play to go on as James was upended several times. McBurnie was tripped in the box and the ref booked him for diving.
Our full backs cannot stop a cross, we need a striker badly, McBurnie looked out of sorts.
The game changed with our introduction of weak players as subs. The inept McKay came on for Dyer and within 5 mins Forest were level.
We were by far the better side but just couldn’t turn our possession into goals.
Six straight away defeats, 13 goals conceded, 3 scored, and a bit of a crisis that needs sorting, or we’ll be playing pretty football in League 1.
 
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Potter: “We did everything right apart from the last 10 minutes. We didn't defend two actions in the box and you come away losing.”
 
Goalscorer George Byers commenting on the Forest game :
“It’s very disappointing to have come away without three points.
We dominated the game for 80 minutes and got ahead, but two set-pieces have let us down.
We must be more switched on because it has cost us.
We’ve dominated the last four games and come out on the losing side each time.
There are little things which are letting us down, but this group of players is determined to bounce back and I’m confident we will.”
 
Just watched the goals back on the Swans App, having only seen the match live previously.
Sub Murphy unmarked at the near post for the first and Wague unmarked at the centre of the goal for the second. Defenders allowing the scorers to get in front of them and goalkeeper static on the goal line.
 
Disappointing yet again, we should be seeing these games out when Forest didn't really threaten us from open play.

We drop everyone back for corners and I don't understand why we don't leave James and Dyer further up field, they're very unlikely to help to defend the corner and would force the opposition to drop an extra player or two back. Though I noticed we outnumbered Forest in the box and they still managed to win the corners to win the game.