Well I watched the game in the middle of a lot of Forest fans sat high up in the Brian Clough stand with my son and his friend, as he is a Forest fan. Hard to listen to their bizarre views on the game however you get a wonderful view of the game there and can see the whole flow of the game so clearly.

Overall I thought we did ok, I think Evans views after the game were a little rose tinted glasses but he has to try and be positive. For 30 minutes our tactics seemed to be working, we kept the ball well and the possession statistics show that. Arnie, Frecks and Smallwood were controlling the game in that first period, however the 2 bookings (both correct decisions) were crucial at the end of the first half.

The danger was always Antonio for them, basically Forest had one attack method which was him. Having Sammon as the cover for Hunt on Antonio was a huge risk and one that cost us dearly in the end. I would have preferred to see a faster player in that role as Hunt was having to sit very deep to anticipate the runs. For me the goal came from two mistakes and a lovely finish. Sammon lost the ball (again) and the goalie was too far out of his goal. The striker was going nowhere the CB had him covered and there was no need for Collin to be 6 yards off his line when the ball was played.  It was a lovely lob but would have been routine if Collin had his positioning right. I know I have gone on about the keeper being out of form recently, but I do think his positioning in the last 6 or so games has been poor and is leading to a high ratio of shots on targets to goals ratio. He is a decent keeper but is out of form.

The second goal killed the game, both Arnie and Smallwood had to pull out of tackles because they had already been booked that provided the chance to Antonio a good shot low and in the corner game over. I was probably being hard on the keeper last night about that one it was just a good goal.

The second half we gave it our best shot and here is the main thing, that was our best shot and forest never got out of 3^rd gear, they coasted. Yes we hit the post Derbyshire and Frecks missed very good chances, Sammon miskicked his and the keeper saved it, but you always felt Forest could have stepped it up and got more goals.

Bottom line we weren’t good enough, we are in the bottom six for a reason we just don’t have the quality that these other teams do, and that is to be expected as we don’t have the budget.  Still think win the three winnable home games we will be safe, but I think we need to turn up for the important games not like the first halves against Millwall and Wigan.

Saturday is crucial we need to win, end of.

Up the millers