Final Score Brentford 2 (og, Thiago) Nottingham Forest 0

[Brentford Bob]

My apologies, gpete. I suffered a coughing fit at “premiership” and was unable to proceed any further.

Maybe that’s the problem. He’s been watching a rugby Union match.

 

[brooks]

Hard fought game and Bees deserved the win but, as many have pointed out, Forest had plenty of chances and couldn't convert any. A better side could have had three.

 

[HMDBFC]

Let's celebrate the win, any win is important but this one felt good. Yes we had some well overdue luck with both goals but let's not be too proud to welcome that against an awkward yet pretty ineffective Forest side. Like others I've been worried about Thiago so I watched him closely yesterday and boy does that guy work hard. Referees treat him appallingly and yet he keeps going, so pleased he got his goal. KA was brave yesterday with the Hickey substitution in midfield, there are many doubters on here but clearly he still believes that this solid all rounder can do a job there and he didn't let us down, his pass for the second was brilliant. My MOTM was KLP, he does so much for the team all over the pitch and when he has the ball things happen in a positive way.
Three vital points going into a really tough away game at inform Brighton sets us up for a proper battle there. A good day yesterday, winning ugly always feels good, especially against that lot.

 

[lanzabee]

It's getting silly now, I wouldn't be surprised if the PGMOL or whatever the f**** they're called now had a meeting at the start of the season and had Thiago as a subject. He literally gets nothing now week after week it cannot be a coincidence.

Ref gave him a few decisions towards the end, butvin general it's noticeable how little he gets. I wonder if this applies across the epl in general, some sort of edict where benefit of doubt is given to the defender

 

[Kingston Bee]

Forest played pretty much as expected, which does not make great viewing. We battled all the way through, because we had to, to get anything. In previous years its the type of game we would gave lost, but i think we are smarter and more resilient now against teams like Forest, it was all about the 3 points. Thought we were solid, CBs and Janelt being the stand outs for me. The game will be quickly forgotten but its one you have to win to progress. Would love to see great football every week but it takes 2 to tango.

 

[Rob-BEE]

That's the worst performance since we've been in the Prem?

He said it was the worst he's seen? How can you know which games he's seen and which he hasn't?

 

[Stanley]

Stats are just stats they don’t always reflect the feel of the game. We matched a gritty and hard working side (with a number of high priced players) for a very good and well deserved win.

We made far more of our possession and looked more threatening in the final third which was the difference.

A very satisfying win

 

[gpetersmith]

That's the worst performance since we've been in the Prem?

I didn't say that. Said it was 'perhaps' the worst I've seen in my 50 or so Premiership games I've been lucky enough to see at the GTech.

 

[Jay Bee]

think that is 4 losses in 22 now since last season which for any side bar the top 2 is excellent.

I made it 4 defeats out of 24 in the league, since the last time this fixture was played in January. 15 last season and 9 this season.

If you prefer it's 3/20 since Brighton in February. And worth keeping in mind those last 3 defeats were to Man U and Man C away, and at home to Liverpool with the red cards. We are hard to beat.

 

[gpetersmith]

He said it was the worst he's seen? How can you know which games he's seen and which he hasn't?

Thanks. Exactly. Also I suppose I was taking into account the opposition - so I remember a first half against Man City where we barely touched the ball - but that was Man City. So people on here rightly saying that Forest were / are a bit rubbish - in that case, surely the stats do suggest it wasn't a great performance from us! Actually, a digression, but I thought Sunderland were brililant in the first half at the GTech. Seems incredible they are now at the bottom of the Prem.

 

[gpetersmith]

Stats are just stats they don’t always reflect the feel of the game. We matched a gritty and hard working side (with a number of high priced players) for a very good and well deserved win.

We made far more of our possession and looked more threatening in the final third which was the difference.

A very satisfying win

I think that is fair. I never really felt Forest would score - but we all know it only takes one deflection / lucky bounce / keepr's error and suddenly it loks very different.

 

[gpetersmith]

It's honest of you to put your credentials on the table - but I'm astonished of you think a 2-0 win could be the worst performance you've seen.

Passing could have been better but as some of us have pointed out we were up against tough battling opponents. xG is not a measure of control... And it's very common for a team that's behind to accumulate more xG (I haven't checked back when the most dangerous shots were)

Even just thinking of home games, where we rarely get a real kicking, defeats to Everton and Wolves in 23/24 were miles worse. Even the Palace 2-2 in May was a much more frustrating performance and game, surely.

As I said, I've seen probably half the home games in the last 5 years. Working my way up to a season ticket... I'm sure there have been worse that I fortunately missed. I just found the sloppy passing particularly frustrating yesterday, not something we usually see. Also, have we abandoned short goal kicks and keeping possession since the 'Hickey Incident' at Hull?

 

[Beecareful]

I have not been a fan for long, seen maybe 50 home games as a Member over the last 5 or 6 years,

But that was perhaps the worst performance I’ve seen from the Bees - apart from a couple of gorgeous passes which created the goals.

The comments that ‘we controlled the game’ display rose-tinted perception, I feel. xG was 0.46 against 0.85 for Forest. Our possession (at home to a bottom 3 team) was 42%. We won only 36.8% of tackles! And only 34 ‘successful final third passes’ against 97 by Forest.

My main frustration watching was we were giving the ball away FAR too easily – borne out by another damning stat, only 71% successful pass completion today, the lowest in the Premiership except for 10-man Palace. Our average at home has been 78% before today, and interestingly away games average is almost the same, even with one outlier, Bournemouth which was only 70%.

So it feels like something was off today. I really don’t think it looked like ‘managing the game’.

Delighted for Igor of course and I felt we defended well, didn’t give away too many silly fouls, etc. But I would be amazed if Keith Andrews was sitting there tonight saying to himself, “we had it all under control”. If Forest had any clue how to actually put the ball in the net we might have been in trouble.

I watched live on TV and in the second half we were easily the better team.

I still have to pinch myself watching all our matches live on TV here in South Africa and taking maximum points off Spurs, Chelsea and Forest and have only lost one PL match and it's now November.

I guess fans who weren't watching, or born, when we were in (old) Divisions Three or Four with a squad of sixteen players with only a manager and a trainer have different expectations.

 

[hanworthbee]

Thanks. Exactly. Also I suppose I was taking into account the opposition - so I remember a first half against Man City where we barely touched the ball - but that was Man City. So people on here rightly saying that Forest were / are a bit rubbish - in that case, surely the stats do suggest it wasn't a great performance from us! Actually, a digression, but I thought Sunderland were brililant in the first half at the GTech. Seems incredible they are now at the bottom of the Prem.

Agree with the Sunderland bit they were so good in that first half I'm amazed they are bottom but the league is tight this year only 5 points separate 18th and 7th

 

[hanworthbee]

I watched live on TV and in the second half we were easily the better team.

I still have to pinch myself watching all our matches live on TV here in South Africa and taking maximum points off Spurs, Chelsea and Forest and have only lost one PL match and it's now November.

I guess fans who weren't watching, or born, when we were in (old) Divisions Three or Four with a squad of sixteen players with only a manager and a trainer have different expectations.

Maybe it's a different perspective on TV but in the ground for the whole second half until Igor scored I felt they had nearly all the ball attacking the west and it was only a matter of time until they scored, but I accept that I'm probably expecting the worse as a bees fan and a neutral also watching may have felt completely different

 

[ruislip bee]

Schades and Janelts balls were equally as impressive before Hickey got it.

And everyone seems to be forgetting the quality of Jaidens cross!

 

[kaebess]

As I said, I've seen probably half the home games in the last 5 years. Working my way up to a season ticket... I'm sure there have been worse that I fortunately missed. I just found the sloppy passing particularly frustrating yesterday, not something we usually see. Also, have we abandoned short goal kicks and keeping possession since the 'Hickey Incident' at Hull?

We were discussing the short goal kicks and the lack of them. Yes we coincided against Hull but we felt that the higher press from teams over the last 3 or 4 games had been a plan that teams were trying to employ to stop us playing. Stop the flow at the source is much easier than chasing around in the middle of the park ( we did have a few flowing one touch moves yesterday ).
We felt that with NF known to be more interesting that Keith and his team would have been mixing it up, it seemed they did.

Interesting the NF also employed the same tactic against us as we also are very good at applying pressure high up the pitch.

All of which restricted the space on the pitch limiting the chances. Both our goals came from us creating space from longer and very quick balls. Something NF failed to do the whole game.

Very tight, spoilt the sceptical but a well deserved hard fought for 3 points.

COYB

 

[TorbayBee]

Let's celebrate the win, any win is important but this one felt good. Yes we had some well overdue luck with both goals but let's not be too proud to welcome that against an awkward yet pretty ineffective Forest side. Like others I've been worried about Thiago so I watched him closely yesterday and boy does that guy work hard. Referees treat him appallingly and yet he keeps going, so pleased he got his goal. KA was brave yesterday with the Hickey substitution in midfield, there are many doubters on here but clearly he still believes that this solid all rounder can do a job there and he didn't let us down, his pass for the second was brilliant. My MOTM was KLP, he does so much for the team all over the pitch and when he has the ball things happen in a positive way.
Three vital points going into a really tough away game at inform Brighton sets us up for a proper battle there. A good day yesterday, winning ugly always feels good, especially against that lot.

Perfectly Summed up my feelings . I gave a real belly roar when the final whistle went. You could see the effort the guys put in. Relatively new fans will not share the old school Brentford affection for such performances - honest, gutsy and brave despite it not yet clicking. 14 points on the board, over a third of the way to the first target. After the trials of the Hull and Sunderland trips the team did not hide it came out fighting to a man.

 

[FunkyZeus]

We were discussing the short goal kicks and the lack of them. Yes we coincided against Hull but we felt that the higher press from teams over the last 3 or 4 games had been a plan that teams were trying to employ to stop us playing. Stop the flow at the source is much easier than chasing around in the middle of the park ( we did have a few flowing one touch moves yesterday ).
We felt that with NF known to be more interesting that Keith and his team would have been mixing it up, it seemed they did.

Interesting the NF also employed the same tactic against us as we also are very good at applying pressure high up the pitch.

All of which restricted the space on the pitch limiting the chances. Both our goals came from us creating space from longer and very quick balls. Something NF failed to do the whole game.

Very tight, spoilt the sceptical but a well deserved hard fought for 3 points.

COYB

Probably totally irrational, but I always get anxious with us playing the short goal kicks / out from the back when the sun is in our eyes (so when attacking the West stand in the first half)...

Can't complain having sunshine on the last day of October, but the sun was very low and clearly in the eyes of our players in the first half. It must make it harder to play the ball out from the back with the sun in the eyes, seeing the opposition etc.

For me it was a funny game because, if we did knock it long on our goal kicks, one of their defenders would always be manhandling Thiago (and WASN'T penalised for doing so) which nullified that outlet for us.

It felt like we didn't seem to win many of the second balls from headers in the middle of the park (possibly due to Forest overloading the midfield), and probably our low pass completion came from miss-direction on our own headers.

But it's never pretty against Forest (see last two home matches against them the last two seasons), and thrilled with the win, clean sheet and Thiago goal!

 

[Holysmit]

All of which restricted the space on the pitch limiting the chances. Both our goals came from us creating space from longer and very quick balls. Something NF failed to do the whole game.

Thats how you score against Forest. They have very good centre backs but they play a high line and don't have much pace at the back.

 

[aawharris]

And everyone seems to be forgetting the quality of Jaidens cross!

I commented on it in another post, not so much the cross, but what preceeded it.

 

[shepperton bee]

Any win in the premier league is massive for me , this season they’ve been like hens teeth , in fact just under 30% of matches have ended in draws up from last season which was a record season (loving the ability of AI to tell me !)
This looks like being the tightest season since we’ve been here and the gap between top and bottom I suspect being the narrowest unless City get a massive deduction.
Yesterday showed how hard to play against WE are and I don’t really care how we win games to an extent and we were so solid and organised that once we went ahead it seemed inevitable we would win and we didn’t need to dominate possession or look pretty to do it .
Made for a pretty dull game if you are a neutral but I loved so much about how we slowly suffocated them and we always looked like we could get a second on the break.
Don’t think anyone had a bad game , bench strength won it for us in the end so happy days !

BTW those that are saying 2 deflected goals I’m pretty sure Thiagos was going in it was heading straight for the corner and curling away from the keeper!!

 

[kaebess]

BTW those that are saying 2 deflected goals I’m pretty sure Thiagos was going in it was heading straight for the corner and curling away from the keeper!!

Sels is a good keeper but the pace Thiago got on his shot, even he wasn’t stopping it.

 

[aawharris]

BTW those that are saying 2 deflected goals I’m pretty sure Thiagos was going in it was heading straight for the corner and curling away from the keeper!!

Sels is a good keeper but the pace Thiago got on his shot, even he wasn’t stopping it.

 

[A Real Mysteron]

I watched live on TV and in the second half we were easily the better team.

I still have to pinch myself watching all our matches live on TV here in South Africa and taking maximum points off Spurs, Chelsea and Forest and have only lost one PL match and it's now November.

I guess fans who weren't watching, or born, when we were in (old) Divisions Three or Four with a squad of sixteen players with only a manager and a trainer have different expectations.

To be honest the argument that fans would have different expectations if they had seen us in the bottom division is patently ridiculous.
I’ve been attending since the late 70s and do I have a different expectation now watching £40 million players than I did when I used to get excited about signing Lee Thorpe?
Of course I do. I never expected most of our teams to string 3 passes together. Loved every minute though.
It’s incomparable.

 

[cheshirebee]

BTW those that are saying 2 deflected goals I’m pretty sure Thiagos was going in it was heading straight for the corner and curling away from the keeper!!

Sels is a good keeper but the pace Thiago got on his shot, even he wasn’t stopping it.

Also, Dango’s ball that the centre back deflected in was going straight to Igor for a tap in.

 

[Les Beeavinu]

Sels is a good keeper but the pace Thiago got on his shot, even he wasn’t stopping it.

Also, Dango’s ball that the centre back deflected in was going straight to Igor for a tap in.

Would've been interesting as Igor may have been called for a foul on Nico Williams.

 

[AB]

I think, with some of the negative comments about this game and others this season, we can be at risk of underestimating the quality of opposition. This season’s PL doesn’t have any clueless cannon fodder like say Southampton, Leicester, Burnley in recent seasons. Forest’s only win of the season was away at Villa. Sunderland put 3 past City in a 5-3. Coventry and Hull are no pushovers. Even with teams that haven’t yet clicked under a new coach there’s a lot of quality- those 3-0s against Spurs and Chelsea look even better now.

I suspect Forest will be out of trouble soon unless Marinakis decides he can’t tolerate Glasner’s comments. Their transition probably depends on rediscovering the full unlikeability they had the last few seasons.

Our success and looking up not down relies on pushing on from being hard to beat to being able to win when not playing the champagne football. In that context I liked that our goals were slightly scruffy (great balls from Hickey and Anthony for the second notwithstanding).

It’s interesting how after murmurings on here for years about playing Hickey in CDM Keith is actually doing so. I wonder whether he’ll carry that on when Yarmo returns. But I like how he’s easing Sangare in and has options to do so. As forever we seriously discount the defensive work Jensen does well. It’s still early but I think Keith is adjusting to the challenge and luxury of a large and deep squad. The bench looks so strong and he’s got tactical options we’ve never had even in our last 2 Championship seasons. Not everything is going to work all the time and immediately but the subs just before our second showed what is possible.

I thought Sepp played excellently and there’s a lot of value in not just sitting him on the bench until Schuster has a bad run. Schuster’s looked great but is a young lad in his first English season. Keith also has transformed Ajer from “can’t play in a pair, rubbish in the air for a big man, fragile”. To have got us so solid that Collins is really going to have a fight for minutes is amazing.

I thought Kevin had a great game and was both terrifying running at Forest so all they could do was bring him down and also, he probably has to work on keeping his feet as I suspect refs have him pegged as going down too easily. Giving Dango the game time and trust to play himself out of whatever it was that subdued him earlier in the season is good management looking over 38 games rather than the game by game knee jerk we as fans might have. Similarly, Igor has quietly plugged away while getting nothing from refs. Binning him off for a stint doesn’t get him back to his levels and I can see him doing that very soon.

We’re still nowhere near the final product but I can see the pieces lining up. We’ll see how far we are from how we approach Brighton who are probably the most consistently tough opponent in the whole PL this season and one that goes full on for 90 minutes rather than in explosive bursts of dominance or by bringing on talented stars for moments of magic.

 

[guilly]

Maybe it's a different perspective on TV but in the ground for the whole second half until Igor scored I felt they had nearly all the ball attacking the west and it was only a matter of time until they scored, but I accept that I'm probably expecting the worse as a bees fan and a neutral also watching may have felt completely different

Agree, they had most of the possession, and felt like the type of games we would have thrown in the final sprint of last season. If we draw the games we used to loose, and win the ones we used to draw, definitely a good trend!

 

[coconino]

I’ve been chuckling at the highlights this morning. A very bad day at work for Milenkovic, and—as @cheshirebee says above—Dango’s cross was always going in despite the deflection after Igor dumped Cunha out of contention.

 

[Untouchable]

Would've been interesting as Igor may have been called for a foul on Nico Williams.

I’ve only seen a couple of replays but the contact on Williams looked minimal. As the goal was given by the referee I’d have been disappointed if VAR got involved.

 

[BmthBee]

He said it was the worst he's seen? How can you know which games he's seen and which he hasn't?

Well I can think of several worse performances than yesterday without trying too hard.
Aka Wolves at home. The River Rats at their tip, Villa away to name but 3

 

[seanrs]

I think, with some of the negative comments about this game and others this season, we can be at risk of underestimating the quality of opposition. This season’s PL doesn’t have any clueless cannon fodder like say Southampton, Leicester, Burnley in recent seasons. Forest’s only win of the season was away at Villa. Sunderland put 3 past City in a 5-3. Coventry and Hull are no pushovers. Even with teams that haven’t yet clicked under a new coach there’s a lot of quality- those 3-0s against Spurs and Chelsea look even better now.

I suspect Forest will be out of trouble soon unless Marinakis decides he can’t tolerate Glasner’s comments. Their transition probably depends on rediscovering the full unlikeability they had the last few seasons.

Our success and looking up not down relies on pushing on from being hard to beat to being able to win when not playing the champagne football. In that context I liked that our goals were slightly scruffy (great balls from Hickey and Anthony for the second notwithstanding).

It’s interesting how after murmurings on here for years about playing Hickey in CDM Keith is actually doing so. I wonder whether he’ll carry that on when Yarmo returns. But I like how he’s easing Sangare in and has options to do so. As forever we seriously discount the defensive work Jensen does well. It’s still early but I think Keith is adjusting to the challenge and luxury of a large and deep squad. The bench looks so strong and he’s got tactical options we’ve never had even in our last 2 Championship seasons. Not everything is going to work all the time and immediately but the subs just before our second showed what is possible.

I thought Sepp played excellently and there’s a lot of value in not just sitting him on the bench until Schuster has a bad run. Schuster’s looked great but is a young lad in his first English season. Keith also has transformed Ajer from “can’t play in a pair, rubbish in the air for a big man, fragile”. To have got us so solid that Collins is really going to have a fight for minutes is amazing.

I thought Kevin had a great game and was both terrifying running at Forest so all they could do was bring him down and also, he probably has to work on keeping his feet as I suspect refs have him pegged as going down too easily. Giving Dango the game time and trust to play himself out of whatever it was that subdued him earlier in the season is good management looking over 38 games rather than the game by game knee jerk we as fans might have. Similarly, Igor has quietly plugged away while getting nothing from refs. Binning him off for a stint doesn’t get him back to his levels and I can see him doing that very soon.

We’re still nowhere near the final product but I can see the pieces lining up. We’ll see how far we are from how we approach Brighton who are probably the most consistently tough opponent in the whole PL this season and one that goes full on for 90 minutes rather than in explosive bursts of dominance or by bringing on talented stars for moments of magic.

Really good post, particularly the point about there being no obvious “clueless cannon fodder”. If someone were to give me money to bet on who will be the 3 relegated teams, I’m not sure who I would go for. Maybe Manchester City would be one but even then you are reliant on the powers to be to exert the appropriate punishment

 

[snowstormbee]

Brilliant piece by Ben Bland from 'The Brentford Way'. Too long to post it all but this paragraph is excellent:

"Liam Delap, the Premier League’s most expensive wrestler, discovered that he couldn’t bully Sepp van den Berg out of the game. Thiago showed that he could endure being shoved, tugged and knocked for ninety minutes and still have the energy and guile to pinch the ball back from the Forest defence in additional time. Kevin Schade kept on running despite trip after trip after trip".

 

[whyteleafebee76]

I think, with some of the negative comments about this game and others this season, we can be at risk of underestimating the quality of opposition. This season’s PL doesn’t have any clueless cannon fodder like say Southampton, Leicester, Burnley in recent seasons. Forest’s only win of the season was away at Villa. Sunderland put 3 past City in a 5-3. Coventry and Hull are no pushovers. Even with teams that haven’t yet clicked under a new coach there’s a lot of quality- those 3-0s against Spurs and Chelsea look even better now.

I suspect Forest will be out of trouble soon unless Marinakis decides he can’t tolerate Glasner’s comments. Their transition probably depends on rediscovering the full unlikeability they had the last few seasons.

Our success and looking up not down relies on pushing on from being hard to beat to being able to win when not playing the champagne football. In that context I liked that our goals were slightly scruffy (great balls from Hickey and Anthony for the second notwithstanding).

It’s interesting how after murmurings on here for years about playing Hickey in CDM Keith is actually doing so. I wonder whether he’ll carry that on when Yarmo returns. But I like how he’s easing Sangare in and has options to do so. As forever we seriously discount the defensive work Jensen does well. It’s still early but I think Keith is adjusting to the challenge and luxury of a large and deep squad. The bench looks so strong and he’s got tactical options we’ve never had even in our last 2 Championship seasons. Not everything is going to work all the time and immediately but the subs just before our second showed what is possible.

I thought Sepp played excellently and there’s a lot of value in not just sitting him on the bench until Schuster has a bad run. Schuster’s looked great but is a young lad in his first English season. Keith also has transformed Ajer from “can’t play in a pair, rubbish in the air for a big man, fragile”. To have got us so solid that Collins is really going to have a fight for minutes is amazing.

I thought Kevin had a great game and was both terrifying running at Forest so all they could do was bring him down and also, he probably has to work on keeping his feet as I suspect refs have him pegged as going down too easily. Giving Dango the game time and trust to play himself out of whatever it was that subdued him earlier in the season is good management looking over 38 games rather than the game by game knee jerk we as fans might have. Similarly, Igor has quietly plugged away while getting nothing from refs. Binning him off for a stint doesn’t get him back to his levels and I can see him doing that very soon.

We’re still nowhere near the final product but I can see the pieces lining up. We’ll see how far we are from how we approach Brighton who are probably the most consistently tough opponent in the whole PL this season and one that goes full on for 90 minutes rather than in explosive bursts of dominance or by bringing on talented stars for moments of magic.

Great post squire.

 

[Terrace Weeding]

Great post squire.

This game was a tough watch but what I enjoyed was Kris Ayer battle with Delap, he was my mom.

 

[kenbee]

Considering that the squad had two long journeys to the north during the week,whereas Forest had a clear week,I was quite satisfied with the performance.

 

[tinman]

Forest played pretty much as expected, which does not make great viewing. We battled all the way through, because we had to, to get anything. In previous years its the type of game we would gave lost, but i think we are smarter and more resilient now against teams like Forest, it was all about the 3 points. Thought we were solid, CBs and Janelt being the stand outs for me. The game will be quickly forgotten but its one you have to win to progress. Would love to see great football every week but it takes 2 to tango.

It won’t be a game quickly forgotten by my 10 year old grandson. It was his first ever PL game, having previously seen us lose to Plymouth in the cup. In fact the games he has watched on TV he has never seen us win. He couldn’t stop talking about and was completely made up when Thiago scored.

 

[Banana]

Got done by xG FC



What was the big chance they had after 10 minutes? the free header that went over the bar?


EDIT: it actually tells you




This all from https://www.xgstat.com/competitions...atches/brentford-nottingham-forest-2026-10-31

 

[Gawain]

I suspect Forest will be out of trouble soon unless Marinakis decides he can’t tolerate Glasner’s comments.

You're probably correct on this. But Forest could still be hampered by not having a reliable goalscorer i.e. Delap is crap, while Wood is probably past it. Either way, they better hope that nothing happens to Gibbs White (injury? January transfer?)

 

[Windmill Rd Bee]

I tell you one thing that’s really nice about watching us play however the game’s going? I am never, ever worried when the other team get a corner. Before the jinx police get me, that’s not me saying we never or will never concede from corners. But we never look remotely likely to. The defenders mark well, and more often than not Thiago’s the one to attack the ball and clear it. I bet not a lot of other clubs’ fans have that.

 

[Gawain]

The defenders mark well, and more often than not Thiago’s the one to attack the ball and clear it.

After one such clearance on Saturday, I mentioned to my mate that it was like "Ivan Toney Mk.II", it being curious that the earlier IT used to make this most valuable contribution, too.

 

[Old B]

Not sure if it’s been mentioned, Kelleher played a blinder when Sels was hoping to take a quick free kick in the Forest penalty box, somehow, the original ball had been hoofed down to our end towards CK and he just let it roll passed him nonchalantly meaning two balls on the pitch, no break away free kick possible.

 

[TeeJayBee]

Not sure if it’s been mentioned, Kelleher played a blinder when Sels was hoping to take a quick free kick in the Forest penalty box, somehow, the original ball had been hoofed down to our end towards CK and he just let it roll passed him nonchalantly meaning two balls on the pitch, no break away free kick possible.

It helped that I think it was one of their players who hoofed it down towards him …..