Scousers gonna Scouse! Dyche Ball Showdown! (A Match thread)

AKA: Death From Above!

Shitty early Sunday kick off.

The must not lose game! Ever-gone are rubbish but they can score and defend set pieces which is very annoying and something we cannot do. (Okay we scored from a corner last week but I digress)…

If Elanga is fit then we can catch them on the break and I am hopeful we will win. Unfortunately we have to score more than one as we cannot keep a clean sheet for toffee. (Geddit?)

2-1 to the good guys. Probably 1-1 but a win is a must and win we must!

Wood and Elanga with the goals. Some cunt for them…

Hopefully they missed their payments and are relegated anyway but let’s fuck them!

Chicago: Going for broke.

Amazing work, well done.

Expecting the big lads to play - Yates, Origi, Tavares, maybe Niakhate, if Boly is still out.

I don't think we should. Even if the big lads play we'll still inevitably concede a set piece. Best we try and actually turn it into a football match and go at them.

Massive gulp emoji

Reyna's pretty big, maybe him rather than Origi.

I don't think size is the primary reason to select Reyna over Origi. I agree with Jim though, I would like to see us actually football our way past them - we're going to beat the likes of Tarkowski and Coleman by making them play on the turn and have to tackle on the move, not by trying to outmuscle them.

Agree it needs to be a balance but they will get set pieces and we can't concede from all of them. I'm not picking Reyna ahead of Origi because he's bigger just that he's probably at least as useful as a marker and clearly a better player.

If Origi plays I might not enter the ground.

Origi is a complete waste of space. Whenever he breaks free no-one in the ground is filled with hope of anything coming from it.

Nott'm Forest XI: Sels, Aina, Williams, Murillo, Niakhaté, Danilo, Hudson-Odoi, Gibbs-White(c), Reyna, Domínguez, Wood

Subs: Omobamidele, Toffolo, Montiel, Sangaré, Elanga, Turner, Duarte Ribeiro, Yates, Origi

Niakhate and Dominguez in, big lad theory mostly refuted. (I do wonder whether Moussa's return is linked to the end of Ramadan.)

Two changes. Dominguez and Niakhate in for Omo and Yates.

With Elanga not fully fit, that might well be my first choice side.
That said, everytime I have thought that, we have put in a lame performance…here’s hoping.
With Luton and Burnley’s results yesterday, we could really do with something.