Just over 24 hours to kick off and no one seems to want this so I'll do it.
To be honest I'm not sure I've got another goal free hate watch in me. Maybe Brentford will score early and I can waste my unvaluable time doing something else.
Home win, Thiago to score.
Morato keeps his place as Murillo has a knock. Awoniyi starts in place of Jesus.
Forest concede in the first ten minutes, a shot from outside the box after the midfield goes napping and the shooter isn't closed down.
Morato concedes a penalty on the half hour and picks up a yellow.
2 changes at half time, Forest knock it around from side to side on the edge of the Brentford penalty area and go backwards.
A misplaced pass and a Brentford break make it 3 after 75 minutes. Dyche brings on Lucca and Yates who heads over the bar and hits a shot from outside the penalty area 10 yards wide.
Post match, Dyche talks about energy levels lacking after Thursday and mentions magic dust
We hope that Calvert-Lewin has bunions and Leeds enter a 3 and a half month tailspin
I hope I am wrong (apart from that last bit)
Decent thread title. Lucca is our saviour. Assuming he can play. Ingo went hiding under the patio with Taiwo. Weak.
I have no idea what will happen. I am going to a not so thrilling 1-1.
Chicago: Lurking for the run in.
NEP seems to think Lucca is available.
Is the Morato thing based on reality or a forecast? As I'm heading to the pub to watch this unless Morato is playing.
Just a forecast......although I read somewhere that Murillo had a tight hamstring so I am erring on the side of pessimism
A year ago today we lost 5-0 at Muff. So looking forward to 2pm.
Yeah, but the following week we battered Brighton 7 (seven) nil, so Palace are probably shitting themselves for next Sunday.
No, me neither.
This is the first time I've started a thread on this incarnation of the board so I've never awarded best answer before. I'm giving it to Sean for reminding of that wonderful day when we pumped Brighton and anything seemed possible.
Honourable mention to Dunc for his Doomsday scenario that was only missing references to crossing into shins and MGW waving his arms theatrically after yet another wanky flick goes astray.
According to the Brentford guest on the FF podcast, Dyche has beaten them 7 out of 8 times in his managerial career. However it seems Keeeyytt Andrews is a tactical genius, so I imagine it won't be too arduous to counter our portended lump it up to the big man approach. Also it was interesting to hear that apparently their fans didn't want to qualify for Europe a couple three seasons ago, when they had a chance, because they knew their squad was too thin and such progression was too soon for their development model. Not a bad run club for a bus stop in Hounslow.
I'm looking forward to Lucca getting his head on some crosses. I just hope he's aware he might have to get on his hands and knees to do so.
Hey Lucca, terrific to have you in the building. I'm a big fan of your powerful heading technique. Just one minor tweak that we need to make to how you are used to playing. Can you just play upside down now?
What's that Lucca? You like taking corners and long throw ins?
Whatever.
Still tinpot as fuck and Hounslow's a fucking shit tip.
You laugh. We had a lad who was the biggest in our team. We were notoriously shit at anything in the air...also he was pretty handy because his father was the ref that we used to regularly use...so the decisions weren't terrible for us. Unfortunately he rerefused o head the fucking ball, convinced (as he was) that he was a 6'2"
messi (not invented yet at that time). Also insisted on taking all the free kicks around the box. It was all quite PVH. Didn't last that many games before the creative tension of him being shouted at, and me not getting what I wanted from him, led to a parting of the ways.
His old man was grumpy about it too, so we had to go with a less bent referee after that.
I wonder if Lucca's old man is a premier league ref?
Might entail filthy Lucca if so.
