Jinky
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One of those days. Fair play to Nuno for changing things around and having a go in the second half but Forest did a real job on us today so fair play to them.
Without wanting to be accused of "pant-wetting", several things worried me today - Costa's performance after he came on, the lack of cutting edge chances (well actually, any chance at all) created, even with Mir, Bonatini, Jota, Costa, Cav & others on the field we could still be playing now and wouldn't look like scoring, the way Saiss faded, the way some of our big name players dropped their heads after we went behind, the fact the simple things - like passing to a player 5 yards away, were made to look difficult... but this group of players and the management have earned our trust and it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to see us bounce back like we did after losing to Cardiff earlier in the season.
We are still 9 points clear - but I feel we are in the middle of a very important period of the season for Nuno (probably his most challenging period since taking over) because we've not quite been 'on it' for a number of weeks now. The goals and chances have dried up, and it's ok to lob as many attacking players on the pitch at once if we're behind but they still need to find a way of breaking teams down.
Perhaps a couple of new players will be brought in before the window closes now. I'm not crying out for signings and wholesale changes, but a few players have looked leggy recently (Douglas, Doherty, Saiss, Bonatini) so it would be good to have a few more options.
Without wanting to be accused of "pant-wetting", several things worried me today - Costa's performance after he came on, the lack of cutting edge chances (well actually, any chance at all) created, even with Mir, Bonatini, Jota, Costa, Cav & others on the field we could still be playing now and wouldn't look like scoring, the way Saiss faded, the way some of our big name players dropped their heads after we went behind, the fact the simple things - like passing to a player 5 yards away, were made to look difficult... but this group of players and the management have earned our trust and it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to see us bounce back like we did after losing to Cardiff earlier in the season.
We are still 9 points clear - but I feel we are in the middle of a very important period of the season for Nuno (probably his most challenging period since taking over) because we've not quite been 'on it' for a number of weeks now. The goals and chances have dried up, and it's ok to lob as many attacking players on the pitch at once if we're behind but they still need to find a way of breaking teams down.
Perhaps a couple of new players will be brought in before the window closes now. I'm not crying out for signings and wholesale changes, but a few players have looked leggy recently (Douglas, Doherty, Saiss, Bonatini) so it would be good to have a few more options.