Official Matchday thread: 35. Nottingham Forest v Southampton. Monday 8th May. Kick off 8pm.

[Dan_Bristol]

Nottingham Forest vs Southampton - Monday 8th May 8pm KO

back to basics, no fancy stats, no eye catching graphics, just focus on the task in hand. (if Gerald Sinstadt did matchday threads)

 

[Statto]

Nottingham Forest 2-2 Stoke City: Ryan Yates snatches late point for Steve Cooper's 10-man side

Ryan Yates scored a stoppage-time equaliser to salvage a 2-2 draw for 10-man Nottingham Forest following a dramatic finale against Stoke at the City Ground.

www.skysports.com

This happened the last time we played against a tennis player

Stoke City 1-1 Nottingham Forest: James Chester own goal denies Potters

An own goal from Stoke captain James Chester earned struggling Nottingham Forest an important Championship point from a 1-1 draw on a misty night at the Bet365 Stadium.

www.skysports.com

or when he scored

 

[Project Zeus]

Fail to win and we're as good as down. Win and we'll be favourites to stay up.

No pressure, lads!

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[Statto]

Fail to win and we're as good as down. Win and we'll be favourites to stay up.

No pressure, lads!

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think this has been highlighted as a must-win since August. If we play like we have been recently, we should have enough.

 

[Rockabilly]

Have we got eleven fit players?

 

[Omar Devone Little]

Wonder if the pedants will consider this must win yet.

 

[Ashley]

Bricking it. This fixture will go a very long way to determining our fate IMO.

Play like we have recently, and we should hopefully be able to get the win. But they are capable of some decent results on the road and we'll need to be careful not to give away any set pieces in dangerous areas as James Ward-Prowse is a real threat.

Needless to say, we can't underestimate Southampton and we will need to be at our very best to win. We can't afford another repeat of the Everton or Wolves games.

 

[Retro]

Southampton to score first just to make everyone shit themselves.

4-1 to Forest.

 

[sammy the snake]

Nowt in it. Just the 12th man

I hope Forest have enough players that’s all

 

[chaospunx]

 

[Project Zeus]

Nowt in it. Just the 12th man

I hope Forest have enough players that’s all

We've got 8 days until we play - it should give us enough time to get the players back up and running. Kouyate, Yates, Aurier, Awoniyi, Niakhate, Danilo and Johnson will all need the time.

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[Frank Clark’s Tash]

Hopefully it was the Brentford game that was the blip, and not the Brighton one.

 

[isaacs]

If we don't win this, we don't deserve to be in the league next season. Simple as that.

 

[Bob Fossil]

If we don't win this, we don't deserve to be in the league next season. Simple as that.

Pretty much.

But we managed to beat them away. Us. Away. Won. That's cause for optimism in itself.

 

[Trents]

It's a must win. No doubt about it.

 

[YellowBelly Red]

Just show complete unity, don't underestimate, be aggressive and believe.

Last game of next weekend's action, so whilst hoping for favourable results, lets go and do it for ourselves.

 

[JohhnyM]

We will smash these, and do our goal difference a big favour into the bargain.

Over a week since the last match so fingers crossed would love to see 433 with Yates, Kouyate and Danilo in the middle. With Navas, Aurier, Lodi, Felipe, Niakhate, BJ, MGW and Taiwo that’s probably our best XI despite the injury crisis.

We actually beat these f***ers away, and looked quite good doing so, so confidence, aggression and composure should be the order of the day.

You Reds!

 

[Malwood]

Was Brighton the first time we've come from behind to win this season?

 

[Rubics]

7 1/2 days - it’s like the build up to Wembley again!

 

[YellowBelly Red]

Was Brighton the first time we've come from behind to win this season?

Certainly was!

 

[thehockleyhustler]

Was Brighton the first time we've come from behind to win this season?

First time we won when the opposition have scored.

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[ARedChester]

3 - 0 - keep it simple and win !

MGW & Johnson(2).

 

[Malwood]

First time we won when the opposition have scored.

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That's a remarkable stat.

 

[whitman1]

Fail to win and we're as good as down. Win and we'll be favourites to stay up.

No pressure, lads!

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Completely disagree especially with the way Leeds are playing. We definitely need some points but who can say how many with the form of the bottom five. Chelsea and Palace are beatable (and who knows what will happen against Arsenal at the City Ground).
We have a brilliant chance of staying up. We're probably going to need a minimum of four points but as I said, with the form of the bottom five, who knows.

 

[whitman1]

Fail to win and we're as good as down. Win and we'll be favourites to stay up.

No pressure, lads!

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But all of this "fail to win this and we're as good as down" talk is nonsense. We have four games left and a brilliant chance of staying up - even if we fail to beat Southampton. A really interesting statistic that someone collated on here was that combining together the results of each of the bottom five's last five matches, the five relegation threatened teams had managed a combined total of three wins from those 25 games. So, are we really realistically expecting Leeds, Leicester, Everton and Southampton to suddenly go on winning runs?! Especially with the difficult run in that each of them have. It's not going to happen.