I know its not on until 5th Feb but no harm in having ones homework done early.
Well like many on here the point on Sunday feels tainted felt we left two behind us rather than winning one.
Anyway Bull lives to fight another day so here goes
BOMBSHELL
Samuel Widdowson played for Nottingham Forest in the 1870s and invented football shin pads in 1874 - F*cking softy.
Famous Forest Fans
Forest can lay claim to a number of famous supporters, including
England cricketer Stuart Broad,
golfer Lee Westwood,
figure-skater Christopher Dean
and Brazillian football manager Luiz Felipe Scolari
(but i reckon that last one b0LL0*)
Games in the past
Played 101
Leeds won 31
Drew 35
Lost 35
We have played Forest on the 5th Feb once before in 1955 and the game was played in their pad in front of 14,074 finishing 1-1 - Old Division Two
Last time we played Forest in the Top flight was on the 3rd April 1999 - Elland Road 39,645 saw Leeds win 3-1 (Jimmy Floyd, Ian Harte & Alan Smith with the goals).
So far this season
Forest are 13th - 21 points -19 GD after 20 games
Leeds are 15th - 18 points -7 GD after 19 games
Forest @ Home This Season
Played 10
+1 of a goal difference
15 points
11th on the Home Table
Leeds away from Home This Season
Played 9
-8 GD
5 points
19th on the Away Table
Form (past 6 league games)
Forest Played 6 - 11 points Won 3, Drew 2 & Lost 1 (city) are 8th in form table +1 of a Goal Difference
Leeds Played 6 - 3 points Won 0, Drew 3 & Lost 3 and we are 18th in form table with -4 of a Goal Difference
Looking at above and considering Forest had a putrid start they seem to be in better form than us. But our performances against Villa & Brentford is giving me hope plus Paddy power has them priced at 8/5 and we are 13/8 so according to them there is nothing between us. I think we are far superior in attack and can definitely score more goals than them, if we hold onto the ball more we ease the pressure off our backline. We have score 26 goals this season H&A Forest have only scored 16 but 13 of those have come at the City Ground where we have scored 11 on the road.
If we can come out of the dressing room all guns blazing that quietens the crowd im hopeful we can take all 3 points away. Rodders & Willy are sky high on confidence and we should try and get these two lads onto the ball early and often. fck this c*ap of flicks and tippy, tappy football in the middle of the park. Get them on the back foot early and the minute the ball gets anywhere near midfield press hard and stop those red shirts in their tracks.
After a clean sheet against Brentford (who arguably are a better team going forward than Forest) im thinking / hoping for another cleansheet for Meslier but Rodders to add to his tally of 10 goals.
Forest 0-3 Leeds (Rodders x2 Willy)
No rain
a Balmy 9 DegC
Over 9 corners
1 yellow card each
29,676
Win this game lads and with Foxes playing Villa we could be 13th and i feel we need to be on 21 points facing into the filth double header.
Yeah great strike by the Forest player but there was nobody anywhere near him to either WIN the fkn ball, BATTLE for the fkn ball or BLOCK the fkn ball....
The game is in the next phase and STILL not over after winning the first ball and still only on the edge of our box....
Fkn poor finishing and fkn crap defending.... as usual
This was another typical Leeds performance and once again we end up with zero points.
Who's to blame?
It remains so damn difficult for us to secure a point, let alone three.
And yes, we don't get the results & points that our performances deserve, but how long have we been saying that.
It's just like everything single thing needs to our way in order to get a win.
Obviously sticking the ball in the net would be a start.
Team need to turn things around quickly & can't start to feel sorry for themselves.
In the second half we still dominated, but I'm pretty worried because as the game went on, our confidence & belief vanished.
We were miles better than them, we battered them, especially in the first half....We should have won 4 or 5 -1.....And we lose!☹️
Not the manager's fault this one though, this one is down to poor touches and finishing from all our forwards!
Now let's spank Scum twice!!! On On On.
I’m afraid that was dire. It was a relegation performance. Struggling to find any positives. Too many light weight one trick ponies. Half of those on the park were signed by the manager? Where is the next point coming from?
That’s a halftime score line that doesn’t reflect the run of play. Apart from Bamford our forward players have run rampant. Adams and Roca are dominating midfield and cant complain about the brilliant Forest goal. Pretty sure we will see Rutter coming on in the second half.
Hard to fathom this. We're absolutely dominant - right up to the point where somebody needs to pull the trigger, then it's been an absolute litany of bad touches and poor shots.
No doubt some will blame the manager as usual...
Maybe we have to throw in Mckennie for Roca and Rutter up front.... go sh1t or bust here
Not sure how we are losing this game, other than it being a decent strike. Forrest have offered next to nothing going forwards, didn’t even know Wood was on the pitch until about 30mins in when the commentator mentioned him.
Sinisterra was y lucky not to score after 2 mins, decent save from their keeper. He should have scored with his second chance or at least hit the target.
Gnonto is causing them massive problems and was unlucky not to score.
Bamford is off the pace a little bit with his touch letting him down a couple of times.
harsh to be behind, the up shot being we have created some decent chances. We just need to put them away.
That’s a downer
4 - 2 to The Mighty Whites!
'Cummmmmmmmonnnnnnn U Mighty fookin' Whites, we need to win this!
Strong line up, strong bench, plenty of firepower and trickery. Should be good enough for the win.
Meslier
Ayling
Wober
Cooper
Struijk
Adams
Roca
Sinisterra
Gnonto
Bamford
Harrison
Subs
Robles
Kristensen
Firpo
McKennie
Greenwood
Summerville
Aaranson
Rutter
Joseph
Meslier
Ayling Koch wobber Strujic
Adam's McKennie Roca
Gnoto Bam Jack
..
Think I will revise my selection:
Bill Struijk Wonder Firpo
McKennie Adams Roca
Nutjob Bamford Harrison
Subs: Robles, Rasmus, Cooper, Greenwood, Aaronsen, Gnoto, Siniseter-Terror, Jimmy and Joseph
Wow my attention deficit kick in and so have know idea what it was about so a recap will I need my big coat ?
So who starts this weekend after the window has shut and the new players are in? If we go a 4 - 3 - 3 then i expect the following team.
Meslier.
Kristensen, Wober, Struijk, Firpo
Adams, Mckennie, Aaronson
Rutter, Rodrigo, Gnonto
Forest just about to sign Shelvey from Barcode as we may sign WM. They are clicking now, it's at their ground but we need the 3 points!
We HAVE to beat Forest with Mancscum coming up twice after that.... a win and 2 draws would be great!!
We've only won 4 games out of 19....that's ONE win every 5 games!!
Shocking ratio which needs to change after dropping so many points against teams around us.
Think the whole of the back 4 needs to be changed in the summer with hopefully Koch and Wober getting us more solid....
Massive game this. If we lose or draw we will likely be in the bottom 3 after the scum games.
I think we will win though, outscore hem with our shiny attack.
Come on Leeds. It’s time to collect some points and to do our performances justice. MOT
PS. Just watched the Anfield game, again. That’s three months ago. Good to be reminded that Aaronsson, Roca and Kristensen, who are currently all a bit out of form, all played really, really well.
I would go for:
Iceman
Ayling Llorente Wober Pascal
Adams Roca
Sinister-Terror Harrison Gnonto
Bamford
Subs: Robles, Rasmus, Cooper, Firpo, Greenwood, Gyabi, Weston, Rodrigo and Nutjob
a tricky fixture with this new manager in place