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Nottingham Forest v Charlton Athletic | Tuesday 11 Feb | Match Thread

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  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,818
    edited February 2020
    Charlton: Phillips, Matthews, Lockyer, Pearce (c), Taylor, Sarr, Cullen, Hemed, Davis, Oztumer, Doughty

    Subs: Amos, Purrington, Oshilaja, Aneke, McGeady, Bonne, Smith
  • Are Pratley and Williams injured or is Bowyer saving them for the more winnable game on Saturday?

    Good to see Aneke back.
  • No real pace up front but both Taylor and Hemed should have the ability to hold up the ball and bring others into play whilst being a nuisance to the opposition
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,818
    edited February 2020
    Nottm Forest: Samba, Jenkinson, Worrall, Figueirdo, Bong, Watson (c), Yates, Silva, Diakhaby, Lolley, Walker

    Subs: Muric, Da Costa, Carvalho, Cash, Semedo, Dawson, Mighten
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,040
    So I presume:

    ------------Phillips------------
    ---Lockyer---Pearce----Sarr-----
    Matthews------------------Doughty
    ------Cullen--------Davis------
    ------------Oztumer-----------
    -------Taylor--------Hemed------

    Which is not that bad a team at all. Really quite positive. Good to see Bonne and Aneke back on the bench - Pratley rested; Solly still out; no Williams or JFC; no Green; no Field.

    Okay.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,818
    Waiting for confirmation on the number of changes Forest have made but it's a lot. They have one eye on WBA at the weekend.
  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,583
    2 up front - first time we have tried that in a while with two conventional strikers - let's see Taylor cause some chaos!
  • We'll win this tonight.

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  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    Decent bench too tonight.  Got options and good to see Oshilaja back. 
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,266
    Hemed starting at last.

    Will do well with Taylor but a lot depends on Doughty and Matthews getting forward.

    Four new injuries not good but Bonne and Aneke back.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,818
    Waiting for confirmation on the number of changes Forest have made but it's a lot. They have one eye on WBA at the weekend.

    Five changes.
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,008
    Williams, Green and Pratley all miss out with knocks
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,693
    Looks like Bowyers hand was forced. With no Green he's had to go with Hemed seeing as Bonne & Aneke still aren't match fit. 


  • Even though I'm not really a fan of the 5-3-2 I quiet like the look of that team to be honest. I think the balance on a whole is right and hopefully with Cullen Davis and Oztumer in the middle we will be dynamic enough to play the ball through the lines to the two up top.
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,466
    Bonne back?? Was that forecast?
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,362
    Hemed's deserved a start regardless - Green obviously ahead of him but I reckon there's a case for all three forwards starting a game at some stage
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,008
    JaShea99 said:
    Bonne back?? Was that forecast?
    On the bench, yes
  • Nottm Forest: Samba, Jenkinson, Worrall, Figueirdo, Bong, Watson (c), Yates, Silva, Diakhaby, Lolley, Walker

    Subs: Muric, Da Costa, Carvalho, Cash, Semedo, Dawson, Mighten
    Missing top scorer Grabban. Lolley is a very good player though, think he was injured for the game at the Valley.

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  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    Leuth said:
    Hemed's deserved a start regardless - Green obviously ahead of him but I reckon there's a case for all three forwards starting a game at some stage
    I would be very surprised if that ever happens but I’m glad he’s getting a chance. He’s only really played on his own with balls smashed up to him. He’s a proven goal scorer, I think we are going to need him between now and May. 
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,164
    I'm going to be positive here about the injuries. We know that players are sent out 'patched up". I hate to think what state some of them were sent out in before the turn of the year. Hopefully now we can afford to rest players with minor knocks. Actually the Valley Pass boys mentioned on Saturday that Green had been suffering with the same virus (i.e."cold") as Doughty, maybe that's his issue. And heaven knows, Pratley need a rest.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,233
    5-3-1-1 if under cosh.
    3-5-2 if attacking.

    Let's go for it.
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,502
    Yay, wingbacks. 
  • 2121
    2121 Posts: 1,197
    Some quality subs! We’ll win! 
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,415
    We need to stop getting into the mentality that we have "more knocks" or "even further injuries." Let's just get on with it. The period of explaining how we ended up from 3rd to a relegation battle has gone. Time to focus on the 2nd half of the season now.
  • Keys to tonight - can the full backs assert themselves and provide attacking width, can Hemed and Taylor hold the ball up and bring others into play, can Ozzy get into pockets of space and feed off that hold up play. Ozzy had a brilliant first 45 minutes in the home game vs Forest, but both sides are very different to that match. Picking Ozzy is quite a bod move by Bowyer though - it's more of a 3-4-1-2 as a result, which makes it quite attacking.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,266
    Oztumer ripped Forest apart in the first 45 mins at the Valley.

    More of that please.
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,865
    With their new Bong at the back, let's hope Bowyer's game plan to hit them hard doesn't go up in smoke.
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