[Football] ‘The Red Wall’ - Forest tactics

Zeberdi

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Oct 20, 2022

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• Friday at 4:40 PM

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Good article and summarises why they doing so well this season. FH calls them ‘quite’ good - but that downplays how difficult teams are finding it to score from inside the Forest box this season and of course their counterattacking is very strong too:

The Red Wall: Why Nottingham Forest are thriving this season with clever, defensive football

Nuno Espírito Santo’s team have finished the year in the top four of the Premier League table and there's little doubt that they deserve to be there.

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pasty

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• Friday at 4:44 PM

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Well we couldn't get through a blue wall at home last time out, so not holding out much hope tomorrow :-(

 

el punal

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• Friday at 4:46 PM

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pasty said:

Well we couldn't get through a blue wall at home last time out, so not holding out much hope tomorrow :-(

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We’re playing away - that probably helps.

 

Gazwag

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• Friday at 4:51 PM

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They have only let 4 goals in less than us, Everton have only let in 28 goals to Forest 27

 

Zeberdi

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Gazwag said:

They have only let 4 goals in less than us, Everton have only let in 28 goals to Forest 27

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They are only second to Arsenal cf to all other clubs in the number of goals conceded at distance - (long shots outside the box) compared to number of goals conceded from inside the box.

They are way ahead of every other club in their scoring in the first 30 minutes of the second half.

Maybe we need to keep half a dozen players behind the ball at all times and shoot from the halfway line