The familiar routine and rhythm of a Forest match ahead of KO: the team news drops. Unchanged.
Oh.
There wasn’t a great deal of possibilities to change the starting eleven that beat Wolves in midweek.
Murilo was still missing. No worries. Morato more or less redeemed himself midweek, following the fuck up against Brighton.
I don’t know what Ndoye is still doing in the side, mind.
Sir Colin of West Bridgford reliably informed me that an away win at Everton would mean that Forest would be the first team to take six points off Everton and Liverpool away from home in two consecutive seasons.
Calm down, etc.
KO came.
Oh shit.
We got off to a very shaky start. Not on par with the Brighton nerves, but it didn’t look good.
An own goal with a cruel deflection off the Serbinator kinda summed up what was to follow.
Tarkowski did well not to be charged with common assault, let alone escape a red card after he twatted Ndoye from behind.
Everton are the new DIRTY Leeds. I’ve never liked them, tbh.
The midfield battle between Anderson and Garner was the only point of interest in the first half. A return of Garner to replace a likely departing Anderson in the summer would sit fine with me. He’d need to lose the silly tache first.
Some awful defending and a robust ref who refused to shift, led to a three on one breakaway for Everton.
I actually checked the Forest X feed to see if the Big Fat Greek hadn’t shitposted something about the ref being an Everton fan.
Three subs for Forest straight after the break. Something had to give. It was good to see Big Willy taking on the professional cheerleading roll, and encouraging young Zak.
The Captain went down with a hamstring injury.
Oh dear.
Like we need another injury right now.
CHO and Hutchinson both went AWOL on the wings. We miss Elanga more than we expected when he was cashed in to Newcastle.
3-0 down and the game was gone. Forest can’t play back-to-back matches. Filling a new 52,000 season when Blackburn are visitors in the Championship fills me with fear.
And so not a great away day. We’re right back down in the relegation bun fight. One step up, two steps back.
Hey hoe.
At least we might get D***y or Stags away in the FA Cup draw on Monday.