Fool’em Town Trap Game (A Match thread)

I suppose it's early season, but going for a third different formation when you've had two working pretty well seems unnecessarily experimental to me.
Was it all bad, or just meh?

Ray? No, seriously, that's the most contrite thing I've ever seen you say. Well fricking done.

Probably. I have a view, and it's that both are excellent managers but that the view that Cooper took us as far as he was probably going to is credible and that Nuno has provably given us a reset and approached us not as a team who has punched massively above it's weight and fluked promotion, but as a Premier league club with excellent resources which could genuinely compete in this league on level terms, and that we are better for that.

I thought you liked him and felt we should persist. Maybe I have that wrong and if so I apologise.

Possibly the nicest thing you have ever said to me. Thank you.

The personal change indicated we were chasing the game but it never quite happened.

So Fool'em was indeed a trap game. To be fair they won with a dodgy penalty. Yes, Murillo stepped on Perriera but he wasn't looking at him and I would assume it was accidental. If they give that then they should have given the Elanga decision who was caught by a swinging foot trying to get the ball. I would say that is more a foul than the penalty that they had. Really in reality neither should have been given. Since one was given then the other should have been because contact was made. maybe it was ignored because Anthony made a meal of it. Either should have been given or disallowed but I argue that there was zero difference in the challenges.

We didn't click. It was a bit messy. I assune Taiwo was injured because I feel he was more of a menace that Chris Wood was....

Fulham were professional. They got the lead and did a Forest. They honesty didn't look like scoring for the whole game so the penalty was gold for them. They saw the game out and with the exception of CHO we looked inert. Taking off JWP was a terrible decision though because something could have come from his brilliant balls. Sosa was rubbish when he came on. He made Taiwo look like Zidane with his awful control.

Bad day at the office. Was always going to happen. I blame Steven Reid leaving. Clearing we miss his Jedi Mind Tricks.

Antoinee Robinson once again was the best player on the pitch. I wish we would have snapped him up from Whig Wham when we had the chance. That lad is class.

Our best player was Ryan Yates yet again. Did the Ryan Yates things. Was good. The rest of the team were very average. We missed MGW.

Chicago: A tad disappointed.

It's a worry if Morgan ever has a lengthy spell out injured.

I didn't think we were awful. A plan C but needing work. In that line up, play Silva instead of Wood and maybe CHO instead of Dominguez.

Think Nuno tried to be overly clever with his tactics yesterday. It was obvious after 20 minutes that we couldn't get hold of the ball / maintain possession in midfield and he didn't seem to have any ideas on how to change it. I'm not sure MGW playing would have changed that game much to be honest. It was a very poor performance - worst of the season so far. I'm jumpy about relegation still. Chelsea next, which frankly will be a battering. Then we'll have lots of pressure to get something at home against Palace.

I don't understand why he didn't just plug Anderson into Morgan's role and keep with a tried and tested formation.

I think because that's what Fulham would have expected, so he tried to out smart them. He failed.

Very disappointed to hear some booing at the final whistle.

Atmosphere was pretty flat all afternoon I thought.

Agreed, but I don't think the crowd were rubbish, it was more than there wasn't any sustained pressure or possession for everyone to get behind.

Yes would agree with that, the game didn't help the crowd get going at all.

To be fair, it would be on brand if you were still worried about getting relegated last season.

While yesterday might have been a disappointment, it wasn't exactly unexpected or unforeseen. Fulham are a decent side and have started the season very well.

Important to say again that in the same time Forest have taken four points from their last three games, Brighton (who are routinely held up as what we should aspire to) have managed just one from Ipswich (h), Forest (h) and Chelsea (a).

Not much to see here from a Forest perspective, I don't think.