Nott'm Forest vs West Ham | PL | 31.08.25 | Prediction & Match Thread

[stubbo-admin]

Next up in the Potter disaster class ...Forest away.

Looks like we'll be bolstered by Fernandes arrival in the squad, but Magassa won't be signed in time. 

Prediction: 3-1 Forest (Wood 2, MGW 1; Bowen for us)

Lineup:

Hermansen 

Todibo Mavropanos Aguerd

Walker-Peters Fernandes Rodriguez Soucek Diouf

Bowen (c) Paqueta

Usual match day gubbins to follow.


Match Centre: 

 Odds: 
WHU: 17/4
Draw: 16/5
Forest: 7/10

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[stubbo-admin]

Credit to Diouf. Sticking to task well.

[nychammer]

we're way to deep

[honky cat]

mads

[nychammer]

wilson coming on for Fulkrug - he's been pretty ineffectual 

[Keep dreaming]

Soucek is glued to the ground. Get him off ffs

[stubbo-admin]

Getting a bit squeaky here. Potter needs to start thinking subs.

[stubbo-admin]

Need to score first here 

[nychammer]

Games opening up. we're getting forward more, good to see. Get Summerville on.

[goose]

Who is this midfielder making forward runs & winning the ball back???

[Mad Ferret]

Shit player. Is Potts really that bad he can't shift him out the team? 

 

 

Yes.

[threesixty]

Why is a 40m CB watching the ball rather than the no.9 he is marking? Ffs… 

got lucky there. 

 

 

Type of thing Jose would sub you off for..
you need to make a point that that shit is just not on at this level. 

[camel-with-3-humps]

Good chance to break. JWP passes it straight to them.

Shit player. Is Potts really that bad he can't shift him out the team? 

[goose]

Kilman is a lucky boy. Simple bit of movement & Wood lost him completely.
Calling it movement is a bit rich.

[stubbo-admin]

I do feel a bit for Fullkrug, the service is largely shit and he’s often isolated.
I get wanting to keep it tight, but the balance feels a bit off.

the Midfield are playing 3 yard passes to each other, we could sacrifice one of them or push Paqueta further forward.

 

He isn’t helping himself, though, Goose, because he doesn’t have the movement to regularly put himself in spaces and channels in between defenders, and to create a half-yard of space. He’s astonishingly immobile. Old skool #9 who prefers to back into his marker. But they’re a rare breed for most tactics these days.

 

 

He needs to be nastier on the pitch. Joker off of it, cսnt on it. He's playing the victim against the centre backs too often.

[nychammer]

Why is a 40m CB watching the ball rather than the no.9 he is marking? Ffs… 

got lucky there. 

[Maverick180180]

That’s some of the worst defending I’ve ever seen

[threesixty]

Why is a 40m CB watching the ball rather than the no.9 he is marking? Ffs… 

[southbankbornnbred]

I do feel a bit for Fullkrug, the service is largely shit and he’s often isolated.
I get wanting to keep it tight, but the balance feels a bit off.

the Midfield are playing 3 yard passes to each other, we could sacrifice one of them or push Paqueta further forward.

 

 

He isn’t helping himself, though, Goose, because he doesn’t have the movement to regularly put himself in spaces and channels in between defenders, and to create a half-yard of space. He’s astonishingly immobile. Old skool #9 who prefers to back into his marker. But they’re a rare breed for most tactics these days.

[Vexed]

Watch us concede early after half time. 

[Full Claret Jacket]

Well it's been a very defensive performance so far. We have defended better but are too slow or lack runners in transition. I understand playing on the counter if you are the away side but we just look devoid of ideas. Best move came from Lucas coming over to the left. He has been our best player by a mile. I'm still not seeing what JWP is offering. Soucek at least has defended well so far. 
if we continue to think we just need to defend then it's very risky and the likelihood is that he home team will bundle something in. 
 

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

He's wasting Fernandes out wide. Should take off JWP,  put AWB and KWP as the full backs and push Diouf up at LW. He won't though.

[claypole]

Why can't we find a decent striker? Every striker we sign turns to shit apart from
Diafra Sakho

Demba Ba

[goose]

I do feel a bit for Fullkrug, the service is largely shit and he’s often isolated.
I get wanting to keep it tight, but the balance feels a bit off.

the Midfield are playing 3 yard passes to each other, we could sacrifice one of them or push Paqueta further forward.

[fraser]

Has Fullkrug completed a single pass yet?

 

I also noted that 2 corners swung in inch perfect by Ward-Prowse for Fullkrug at the back post which was clearly a training ground move he pings the ball in to Row Z with his 50p shaped head.
 






<Row Z 

One of them was perfect for Dinos coming in behind 

[Massive Attack]

Has Fullkrug completed a single pass yet?

 

 

I also noted that 2 corners swung in inch perfect by Ward-Prowse for Fullkrug at the back post which was clearly a training ground move he pings the ball in to Row Z with his 50p shaped head.
 






<Row Z