Forest v Villa

Don't forget the pinstripe kit, for good measure.

That was an all round horrendous performance. We were outrun qnd outclassed by Villa. They Didn’t even get out of third gear. Where is the motivation? This is indeed worrying.

At least Matt Turner made a triumphant return to the club today! Comedy special!

Only Forest. I am tempted to play Dom and Luiz against the Shammers and rest Anderson. He looks Fooked.

Zippy you are up for Tuesday. Don’t let us down!

Chicago: Too tired to shout.

Whaaaat? I can give the next one a shot, but you'll be putting in a rookie to bat for a massive match.

Trying to understand Dyche’s mentality yesterday. I guess we sat back at Anfield and it was effective after the first 20 minutes. So he thought he would do something similar. I think we should have played all 3 of Anderson, Dom and Luiz if that was the case. Neither Bakwa nor Hutch are great defensively.

But Villa are a different beast in the way they press from the outset. We did not have an answer to it at all yesterday and it made us look really dogshit. When we lumped it out, it just came back. When we try to pass it out, we were tied in knots and when we tried to dribble it out, it was intercepted. Murillo and Anderson (our best defensive ball players) both made several errors. All three of their goals (plus the early chance) came from bad mistakes (and poor decision making) from us. 1st goal was a thrown in to us with seconds to go in the first half. 2nd was from Bakwa trying to play out and getting intercepted. 3rd was clown territory from John (but resulted from a really poor ball from Hutchinson to Savona). For all their possession in the first half, I don't think they created much (except from our two errors). When we pressed them higher up, Konsa and Lindelof were prone to making mistakes.

The manner of the defeats vs Villa, Everton and Fulham give real cause for concern. Tactically inept from Dyche. Too many mistakes from the players. People say that Dyche’s Plan B is just to do Plan A better. I’m not sure I know what Plan A is from one game to the next.

Certainly agree on the point about playing both Bakwa and Hutchinson if we were setting out defensively.

I think he was trying to stop the rot with a 0-0 draw. It didn't work.

We made Everton look half decent twice. And they have been absolutely crap for weeks.

I’d also include Brighton in that, I said at the time it was a bad defeat but was told they are a decent side. They won their first game since beating us yesterday. (At home to Burnley).

It’s between us and West Ham for that relegation spot. I’m not convinced we have enough.

Can recommend looking for some West Ham opinions.

Outlets because Jesus was deep in our own half?

That was my thinking, but it didn't work.

Neither are strong enough to hold the ball up.