Nottingham Forest vs West Ham Official Match Thread

[JayK]

I wouldn’t be too surprised if Errol starts instead of Soucek or Lanzini tbh

Sooner see Coventry and that thought just depressed me , the city not the player .

I said Errol coz he played Championship last season so may have some understanding of the way Forest play, that’s all. Love to see Coventry get some decent game time and do well.

And yes, the place is fuckin depressing. No wonder the Germans went out of their way to bomb the fuckin place

[JayK]

Just the thought of Fabianski , Zouma , Coufal , Cresswell , Soucek , Lanzini and Antonio getting to start depresses me .

Short term not sure they could all be covered.

Replace Antonio with Scamacca and play Cornet.
Move Fornals into the 10 role, Ashby at RB and pair Coufal with
Rice for midfield bite.
Most of the creativity will have to come from the flanks.

So you end up with:
Fabianski
Ashby Johnson Zouma Cresswell
Coufal Rice
Bowen Fornals Scamacca Cornet

Or you could play Rice instead of Johnson,Johnson instead of Ashby and Coventry with Coufal and young Flynn. That leaves too many players so you have to remove one from Bowen Fornals Scamacca Cornet.

Or you play last weeks team and hope nobody notices

Last weeks team aint it

[Clayton]

Just the thought of Fabianski , Zouma , Coufal , Cresswell , Soucek , Lanzini and Antonio getting to start depresses me .

Short term not sure they could all be covered.

Replace Antonio with Scamacca and play Cornet.
Move Fornals into the 10 role, Ashby at RB and pair Coufal with
Rice for midfield bite.
Most of the creativity will have to come from the flanks.

So you end up with:
Fabianski
Ashby Johnson Zouma Cresswell
Coufal Rice
Bowen Fornals Scamacca Cornet

Or you could play Rice instead of Johnson,Johnson instead of Ashby and Coventry with Coufal and young Flynn. That leaves too many players so you have to remove one from Bowen Fornals Scamacca Cornet.

Or you play last weeks team and hope nobody notices

Another permutation playing only two of that seven is

Areola
Ashby - Johnson - Zouma - Cornet
Rice - Coventry
Bowen - Fornals - Antonio
Scamacca

Could even be played with wingbacks and Rice in a back three , which would work .

Areola
Johnson - Rice - Zouma
Ashby - Fornals - Coventry - Cornet
Bowen - Scamacca - Antonio

[BlackDiamond]

Short term not sure they could all be covered.

Replace Antonio with Scamacca and play Cornet.
Move Fornals into the 10 role, Ashby at RB and pair Coufal with
Rice for midfield bite.
Most of the creativity will have to come from the flanks.

So you end up with:
Fabianski
Ashby Johnson Zouma Cresswell
Coufal Rice
Bowen Fornals Scamacca Cornet

Or you could play Rice instead of Johnson,Johnson instead of Ashby and Coventry with Coufal and young Flynn. That leaves too many players so you have to remove one from Bowen Fornals Scamacca Cornet.

Or you play last weeks team and hope nobody notices

Another permutation playing only two of that seven is

Areola
Ashby - Johnson - Zouma - Cornet
Rice - Coventry
Bowen - Fornals - Antonio
Scamacca

Could even be played with wingbacks and Rice in a back three , which would work .

That's quite inventive, didn't realize Cornet could play there.

In fact I think that is much too inventive for a DM West Ham lineup. Several levels too inventive in fact...

[OZHAMMER]

It might not make much difference over there, but fuck I hate Sunday football. Normally means I’m watching the game between midnight and 5:00am on a Monday morning.

Record it! keep off all media channels, and watch it through. You can play an extra game seeing how far you get before the result is unwantingly revealed.

I usually watch the game after the next day’s work, but I’ll nearly always have had a text from someone during the day that gives away the result.

[JayK]

Record it! keep off all media channels, and watch it through. You can play an extra game seeing how far you get before the result is unwantingly revealed.

I usually watch the game after the next day’s work, but I’ll nearly always have had a text from someone during the day that gives away the result.

Block them for a bit

[JayK]

Short term not sure they could all be covered.

Replace Antonio with Scamacca and play Cornet.
Move Fornals into the 10 role, Ashby at RB and pair Coufal with
Rice for midfield bite.
Most of the creativity will have to come from the flanks.

So you end up with:
Fabianski
Ashby Johnson Zouma Cresswell
Coufal Rice
Bowen Fornals Scamacca Cornet

Or you could play Rice instead of Johnson,Johnson instead of Ashby and Coventry with Coufal and young Flynn. That leaves too many players so you have to remove one from Bowen Fornals Scamacca Cornet.

Or you play last weeks team and hope nobody notices

Another permutation playing only two of that seven is

Areola
Ashby - Johnson - Zouma - Cornet
Rice - Coventry
Bowen - Fornals - Antonio
Scamacca

Could even be played with wingbacks and Rice in a back three , which would work .

Areola
Johnson - Rice - Zouma
Ashby - Fornals - Coventry - Cornet
Bowen - Scamacca - Antonio

Honestly can’t see him playing Johnson AND Ashby

[Clayton]

Another permutation playing only two of that seven is

Areola
Ashby - Johnson - Zouma - Cornet
Rice - Coventry
Bowen - Fornals - Antonio
Scamacca

Could even be played with wingbacks and Rice in a back three , which would work .

That's quite inventive, didn't realize Cornet could play there.

In fact I think that is much too inventive for a DM West Ham lineup. Several levels too inventive in fact...

Cornet supposedly was taught by Jordi Alba to play at LB when they played together at Lyon , actually appeared at LB 24 times in the 20/21 season scoring 2 goals and 4 assists before he moved to Burnley .

[terrya1965]

I see him starting with the same normal shit ,apart the back 4 ..Who knows who he will play there.

We will be 2 down with Jessie at least scoring one of them.

He will bring Scamacca and Cornet on for the last 10 minutes,where one of them will score.

[Clayton]

Really do not understand the fascination with Lingard he had one ok season at Man Utd about 5 seasons ago , so what makes you all think he is capable of doing it at Forest ? is it the fluke 10 match run he had with us at worries you'll .