I’m not sure, but leave it to us to get probably the hardest draw for this round. It’ll be tight, however it goes. Do I have a gut feeling? No. But I’d like to think Emery has this.
Me, I’ve been in annual deadline hell and traveling today, so I’ll miss the match. Actually standing line to board a flight to NYC. Hope I’m not glad I missed this one. And I’m hoping the short week suits us better and that we’ll be wanting it. I’m sure Forest will.
So, quick from me, just wanted a fresh page for everyone.
COYVB
Over to you.
Team News:
Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Torres, Digne, Tielemans, Onana, McGinn, Buendia, Rogers, Watkins.
Subs: Bizot, Wright, Bogarde, Maatsen, Lindelof, Mings, Garcia, Luiz, Bailey, Elliott, Sancho, Abraham.
Forest:
Ortega, Williams, Morato, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Wood, Dominguez, Jesus, Hutchinson, Milenkovic, Aina.
Subs: Sels, Willows, Lucca, Yates, McAtee, Bakwa, Abbott, Whitehall, Sinclair, Hanks, Blake.
Bullshit call. Hands up, but that’s not what a peno is about.
It’s a semi final. You HAVE to score goals. Two away games now where we don’t even look like scoring. We looked way too cautious. A 0-0 was always looking unlikely. It only needs a bad referee decision or stupid mistake and we perish. So it proved.
The last 5 minutes of normal time and 5 minutes of overtime, it looked like we had settled for taking a 1-0 defeat away with us. A huge mistake. Where was the urgency to attack them? Are we able to attack anyone these days? Massively gutted.
This is not the first time Digne has given away a penalty with hand ball over his head. He did it just a few weeks ago FFS. Folks will say the tie is still in the balance. I make Forest firm favourites to go through now.
Yes. That was pretty lame. Too many given-away chances. Of course, Anderson should have watched the second half on television after his studs-up attack on Ollie’s ankle.
We got nothing from VAR. That foul on Watkins by Anderson was disgraceful. Can’t believe how much luck Forest have had. Porto gave them an own goal from the half way line. Digne gave them a penalty. The ref and linesman gave a goal kick. VAR decided the ball was still in without any clear proof otherwise. They guessed it.
Onana was a big loss. Bogey not at the races. Pau very ineffective. But rather than pick on individuals….. I was most disappointed with our approach to the game. Semi final against Palace last season, no goals. Semi final today no goals. We’ve got to take a few more risks if we want to win a knock-out game.
Another limp performance, but the ref and var were awful Anderson pull on mcginn no card his tackle on watkins not even a free,red card everytime
Emery finally giving out about var