This hasn’t been mentioned at all when people have been talking about the massive change in style from Nuno to Postecoglou. Brentford 55%, Palace 58%, West Ham 58%.
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Pessimist. Marinakis is going to make himself manager and finally break the Bournemouth curse. You read it here first.
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I've already been trolled by a Celtic 'footy' (fiba?) hun and a Notts gole-keep, um, LEGEND. Which is nice.
Sutton didn't waste too much time in coming out to have a go at us / EM for being ridiculous and a bit mean to Ange, either.
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Are we arguing that high vs low possession is the only change from last season? Seems... reductive.
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Not very sympathetic Guardian piece on Ange:
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Sutton is an absolute cretin. I’m convinced he was only employed by the BBC to make Robbie Savage look like the intelligent one.
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No but things like average positions, ppda and position of defensive line, all of which I think show significant changes, aren’t as readily available.
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This was noted after the West Ham game on Forest Focus podcast I believe (with data from the previous 3 games). They showed our back line 5-10 years further forward than 'normal' (which you'd expect with increased possession I guess).
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Fair. PPDA would be useful to show the change in pressing style. From what I have seen, the press was uncoordinated and ineffective. Worked somewhat first half yesterday because Chelsea were sloppy.
Honestly think the biggest change has come from the players feeling settled and happy last season, leading to over-performance - vs now regularly getting worse results than xG would suggest. These players, feeling settled, would have taken more chances. Not sure they would have overcome Angie's historically poor defence coaching though.
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@dimarzio (Italian SkySport ‘transfer expert’ with 1.9m followers) suggests Forest are ready to pay the release clause for Silva.
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I've asked this before, but, that's all well and good and stuff but is Silva wiling to be released to run away and join our cirus?
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I'd like to think that if we're genuinely exploring it, Marinakis or his people have already spoken to him to find out.
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Oh, I'm sure. I'm still genuinely curious though. Taking of the fan 'cos-its-Forest-why-wouldnt-you' tinted glasses for a moment.
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Right, well I'm in!
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Obviously I'm negatively impacted by recent results but Adam Sommerton and Barney Ronay think this squad is far too good to be in a relegation battle but I'm not sure of that at all.
A number of players overperformed last season and seem to be overcorrecting this time (Sels and Wood are the most obvious). The injury to Aina hurts us massively because neither of the new full backs look up to the job - Zinchenko can't defend and Savona looks completely out of his depth so far.
The £120m of new signings left out yesterday are all skillful players (giving Kalimuendo a pass im not sure he deserves) but none seem to have the physicality for the Premier league.
Despite Anderson (who we are running into the ground, for which we'll surely pay the price) the midfield still has issues - Sangare can't put together a full game and Luiz can't play more than an hour or two games in a row.
Most of our best players are shocking finishers - Anderson, Morgan, even CHO has only got one since the Man City game at the start of March.
Think I'm talking myself into a Dyche, let's focus on the basics, approach for the rest of the season.
