Ratings & Reactions: Nottm Forest v Villa

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Your ratings and reactions please. Keep it respectful even if you know everyone else is wrong.

A mod will add the players to the MoTM poll later.

[NoelVilla]

Hope for better performances against Alkmaar and Fulham. From everyone.

[sidcow]

The second you start to believe. 

The second you get excited. 

This. 

[NurembergVillan]

Crap and yet simultaneously not crap.

We offered them two stupid goals so they could play with 10 behind the ball and they gratefully accepted.

Every time we got a player in a promising position there were at least two Forest players on him.

The most touches in the opposition box we've had all season and yet Chaka Demus in their goal was never tested.

I can't remember being so frustrated watching us in a long, long time.

[Zatman]

Crap performance, crap result

We move on to Thursday and expect a few players will be benched not rested 

[Mark Albrighton]

Bad day at the office. Very bad. 

Move on, try and finish with a flourish in the next two before the international break.

[Davkaus]

Very hard to pick a man of the match there. We couldn't even do the basics today, every other first touch was scuffed, every shot was skied, and we gifted them 2 goals.

It feels like all it needs to beat us is some big **** who can bully our meek forwards and centrebacks. Really missed Mings today, IMO, and Watkins was just never in it against centre backs much bigger and stronger than him. 

it was a very poor game from Luiz, Cash, Martinez, Diaby, Watkins, Zaniolo. We can't have that many passengers, and whatever plan we made at half time went out the window with that Martinez calamity. 

One to forget, but we're still at two points per game. Onwards and upwards.

[BleedClaretAndBlue]

[StefanAVFC]

Given MOTM to McGinn. At least he had a few nice touches and flicks. 
 

ref far far below very poor.  Not at the level needed for PL football. 
 

Emery. Tricky, if he's set us up deliberately with 2 of the worst attacking full backs in the league as our main attacking threat then it has to be a very poor. 

[villa89]

4 minutes ago, Zatman said:

Crap performance, crap result

We move on to Thursday and expect a few players will be benched not rested 

Who do you bench? We don't have a squad. Bailey came on and was horrendous, tielemans was marginally better than what was out there. Moreno for digne might be the only improvement 

[tonyh29]

Poor as we were today , if we’d had taken our chances we’d have won that game …. Sometimes shit football teams kick and bite and win games and with a bit of a gift from Emi that’s what happened today.

season isn’t over so we just keep doing what we are doing and we will still be somewhere around that top 6

 

[Wainy316]

Took us as far as he can

[jim]

Dross. Forest wanted it. We thought we could turn up and win.

[rjw63]

The only thing that comes to mind after that wank performance is the cover of Type O Negative's "Origin Of The Faeces" album.

I'm not allowed to post it on here so if you're unfamiliar I suggest you Google it.

 

[mikeyjavfc]

The Emery video session is going to be an all-timer.

[LondonLax]

We weren’t going to win every week. 

[sidcow]

[Mantis]

This is one of those ones you have to lay squarely at the feet of the players. Gave the game to them and then were useless in attack.

[villa4europe]

Terrible

Forest defended for their lives

And still we created stuff, got in decent positions, terrible final pass, cross and shots

Midfield was really poor

Defensive line was impressive

Ref made it up as he went along

 

[jim]

Just now, tonyh29 said:

Poor as we were today , if we’d had taken our chances we’d have won that game …. 

 

What chances should we have taken? We didn’t lay a glove on them.