PreMatch | Nottingham Forest vs Liverpool | FA Cup Quarter Final | Sunday March 20th 18:00h | City Ground

watching this, one can see why some players are not starters in the first eleven

Ox off, Diaz on, Elliot back into midfield.

Bobby off Diaz on, Jota plays central. Let either of Ox/Harv be the wingers.

Why? They aren’t


I reckon that when Brendan O’Carroll retires, Roy is a shoo-in to take over as Mrs Brown.

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If only to send those crosses across and track back and help defensively.

Like in the Arsenal match, that first half was frustrating. Unlike the Arsenal match, we had plenty of chances but we’re nowhere near clinical enough.

Like a Panenka, bobby’s chip looks class when it goes in but you look a bit of a muppet when you miss. He had enough of the goal to slot it into the corner so it was a disappointing miss.

I’ve been pretty consistent in calling Pawson the most incompetent referee in the game and he hasn’t disappointed. Knowing he’s calling every Notts dive and nothing for us I hope we don’t rue Bobby’s miss.

Like always, i assume Notts can’t keep the pressure up for 90mins so we just need to be patient, forget about our sloppiness in the first half and try again. The defence has been solid. Gomez and Ox the standouts.

Diaz is going to be important.

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Disagree his touch and bringing in players today has been very good, his only casual play unfortunately was on his chance

Must be watching another match because to me we are average at best.

Don’t agree Jota has been poor and coughed up possession too much take, Bobby off and there is no link up play

Don’t think we’re doing much wrong to be hoenest.

The goal will come.

Ox, Harvey and Gomez playing well considering lack of playing time recently

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it still amazes me that even after all these years Brendan Rodger’s teams cannot play defence. you would think, he would have learnt something about setting up a defence by now

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Mo and Sadio don’t play until Friday but given tonight off?

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think mo re aggravated the foot

They both look jaded so it’s needed

Forest are a decent team but we should be beating them.

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Come on Reds, raise hell :clap:

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HT 0-0:

Good game in a proper stadium with a proper atmosphere and proper chants. Nottingham are obviously a big club, hopefully they’ll soon join us in the PL. The league needs such an atmospheric, big tradition club.

Some good stuff from Nottingham today in their build-up, they want to play proper football as well, and that brings the crowd up on their feet. Good stuff, although our lads have managed to keep them off our goal most of the times.

As for us, we dominate possession 70% of the time, but in terms of doing something with our chances, are quite harmless to be fair. That is quite natural, as the trio of Bobby, Jota and Elliot have never played together upfront, so it’s not surprising that our attack looks a bit dysfunctional for the time being. Ox should be the fourth player to bring danger, but doesn’t look sharp enough yet.

Let’s see how it goes. I wouldn’t be surprised to see our lads pick up a faster pace during the second half, and that could then be too much for the opposition. Let’s hope that we can score that first goal, then things will likely become easier for us. Fingers crossed.

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Ali unfortunately has that in him

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Offside and offside and offside.

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