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Ep 58 - Everton Review as Forest sit in 2nd!
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James, Stuart, and Marley discuss the win against Everton which put Forest - at least overnight - into 2nd place.
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Transcript
Festive Greetings: Forest's Premier League Standing
00:00:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
So Merry Christmas and welcome back to the GSPN Daily Forest Podcast, recording specifically now on the afternoon of Monday the 30th, whilst forests remain second place in the Premier League. James, how good does that sound?
00:00:21
James Rigby
That's amazing, mate. I can't believe it. Just, who would have thought, asking for Christmas, would have thought Santa was real, bringing that sort of present for Christmas.
00:00:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know, it's ridiculous. I don't think it would have even have been on many many forest fans Christmas lists. Just nice and safely in mid-table.
00:00:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
We all would have taken at the start of the season, but now we're at the point where the question amongst all Forest fans' lips is, would you take seventh if
Forest's Ambitions: Top Four Finish?
00:00:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
off of it now? So James, I don't think we've, um I've asked you that question yet.
00:00:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, shaking your head, we can do better than seventh.
00:00:54
James Rigby
No, no, I wouldn't be honest.
00:00:58
James Rigby
I'd maybe take fourth if it was offered now, because I think that's more maybe what we should be shooting for, top four. um I don't think dropping to seventh is something that, like it would be a massive success even getting seventh. and Don't get me wrong, you know from where we were last season and the trajectory we've been on from the bottom of the championship just a couple of years ago,
00:01:23
James Rigby
and seventh would be unreal and so I'm not you know being ungrateful but where we are right now it's kind of like the whole cash out thing isn't it and do you cash out for a lower amount or hold on so hey Marley how we doing yeah doing good we were just discussing would you would you take seventh now if it was offered yeah okay
00:01:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
no
00:01:42
Marley
I'll do them well you.
00:01:51
Marley
Yes.
Season Predictions: Liverpool and Forest's Prospects
00:01:55
Marley
We have not reached 40 points yet so I still expect bottom three so I'll still take 17th if it's offered.
00:02:00
James Rigby
oh
00:02:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, so my my prediction, I'm going to put this out there now, let's hope Zencaster creates a a clip of it so we can refer back to it at the end of the season. I think Liverpool will win the league, Liverpool will win the FA Cup, but we will finish second, meaning we get into the Community Shield, and then we beat Liverpool in the Community Shield. That's my big prediction, we get our big doubt at Wembley, but in the Community Shield, because we'll be up three at Liverpool, having won the League and Cup, won't be too bothered about the Community Shield, so for me, second and Community Shield, that's what I'm going for.
00:02:37
James Rigby
Oh my gosh, how amazing would that be? I've not even considered that that the the Community Shield could be a thing if Liverpool... Yes. Yes.
00:02:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
It takes quite a bit of dominoes to fall into place, and of course um ah we would love the FA Cup as well. We've got a a nice, tasty draw against Luton coming up, but the way I think it's going, I think Liverpool will run away with both, but we could ah stop them from getting a domestic treble or quadruple and take that Community Shield.
00:03:09
James Rigby
community shield you know I always thought it was like a um a Mickey Mouse cup but if we won it wouldn't be it'd be like the best thing since sliced bread I'll just come to went
00:03:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Definitely. What it is, it isn't the hardest, hardest couple to win because yeah, ah only two teams are in it. It's, it's very, it's very difficult to, to re reset community shield. What we did our hopes, hopes of getting, getting to Wembley in August, a big shot in the arm yesterday with the two nil very, very straightforward win against Everton.
Marillo's Absence: Tactical Adjustments?
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Starting off with the teams though, um how What we draw you when Marillo um pulled out very close to to kick off in the warm up or is our trust now in Nudo and in that set of players so high that the change of shape, the change of formation 10 minutes before the game was not even but even a factor. mar like
00:04:05
Marley
I was worried, not necessarily because I don't trust in whoever was going to replace Morello, but because he seems to be a bit of a glue. I expected that because it had been him and Milankovic starting week in, week out all season, there'd be a bit of a ah bit of composure in that backline loss where we don't have that partnership built up, but it seemed that we've always been subbed on to help us hold out Leeds.
00:04:18
James Rigby
on this.
00:04:31
Marley
Morato's managed to build a bit of a partnership with Morello and he kind of just sorted right in. seemingly didn't really miss Merola that much either. Anyway, so I guess there's no nothing to be worried about if he is out for a few games.
00:04:39
James Rigby
ah pack um
00:04:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I can completely agree on on the marit Marillo topic. If he now misses Wolves and misses Luton but is back for Liverpool, that would be completely, completely fine for me. How about you James? Were you expecting to see it be a straight swap Bolly in for Marillo or were you happy that we suddenly switched back to the back four and gave Sosa that first chance from from the start?
00:05:06
James Rigby
Well I thought it was a bit sus to be honest because so like first of all I was not shocked but taken aback slightly by going for a back five against Everton.
00:05:20
James Rigby
um I know that they've been tough, but I just felt like their quality in the last third is just abysmal at the minute, you know, with no one really firing. So I thought, you know, back five was paying them maybe a little bit too much respect. But then when Marillo was out, it was kind of a no moment, you know, when I saw that come up on the ticker. um And I did think we've not done it without him yet this season.
00:05:50
James Rigby
So how how's that going to work out? a But like Marley was saying, you know, is he the talisman? Is he the glue that kind of holds that defense together? And we did we didn't miss a beat. But then to change the tactic, not just the player, but the tactic and seems sus because I was just like.
00:06:11
James Rigby
was it just was it just like a thing a bit of housery for Everton to be like right 20 minutes before we're going to change our whole game plan on you and ah we're going to cheat a little bit and and do it like this I'm not saying we did I'm just saying it it seemed very convenient that we took off ah we lost our best centre back and then bought on a winger rather than stick with the five at the back and the whole plan that we'd had.
00:06:42
James Rigby
But, you know, it just probably goes to show that Nuno is playing ah the system to the players, not the players to the system. You know, it looks at what he's got and he he says, right, well, we've we've not got those three anymore and that'll work better this way.
00:07:03
James Rigby
You know what I mean?
00:07:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think i think ah that's right. He does, as you say, pick pick the the players and then makes the system around it because you're right, there's no attacking threat at all from Everton.
Nuno's System Adaptation: Player-Centric Approach
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Global Sports Podcast Network
So so I don't think he went three at the back to counter their attacking threat. I think he went for that because due to the suspension for Yates and the injury for Hosanna Doid, I think he thought Marato was a better player than Sosa and Bali, which is my Marato came in to start.
00:07:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Then when Marillo got an injury, the next man up, you're right, it wasn't just the next man up in his position. Sosa, in his eyes, better than Bali, but instead he put Sosa in and into the team to include him. So I think you're right, he works out which 11 players he wants, and then he can, with with quite a few successful tweaks we have seen ah over the season now, he doesn't always play the same thing.
00:07:55
James Rigby
Well, here's a question for you on that topic then. Fitzy, the, you know, next one up. I saw on Nottingham Forest TV a couple of days ago over Christmas, they had an interview with Chris Wood and Morgan Gibbs White asking them questions.
00:08:08
James Rigby
Anyone see that?
00:08:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Not yet.
00:08:10
James Rigby
No, they were asking them. they ah One of the questions was, who would win in a game 11 Chris Woods or 11 Gibbs Whites?
00:08:21
Marley
I remember one of Gibbs-White's answers.
00:08:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Did they both fake, yeah, did they both fake polite and say, oh no, a team would give us white, it's a team of words, or what did they what do they say?
00:08:29
James Rigby
No, no, they basically said um if it was 11 Chris Woods, their tactic would be ah hoof ball, long ball, all the way. um And, you know, very physical that Chris Woods' two positions are striker and goalkeeper.
00:08:46
James Rigby
anything else in between is rubbish, um whereas they both kind of agree that 11 gives whites a win, because they're they're better kind of across there the field with ball control. What was the answer you remember, Marley?
00:09:03
Marley
I remember Gibbs White saying if anyone on any of the 11 Gibbs Whites hoofed it long, they were coming off.
00:09:09
James Rigby
yeah Yeah, he did, yeah. I thought that was funny, because we do do that sometimes.
00:09:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yes, let's talk, as you said, about that first goal. Before I suggested it, that was a long ball, I think, gives White's initial ball up to Wood. He was in his in his own half, I think. So it gives White for his own half. Wood's head, Elanga's head, and Wood with a subtle finish. Because you're right, it shows that even against a so-called long ball team like Everton,
00:09:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
we are still have that strength and I like it and we are better than ever so being evident.
00:09:45
James Rigby
Yeah, it reminded me of playing heads and volleys when I was a kid. Don't know about you guys, you know, when you go to Heather or Volley into the goal and yeah, the the whole one, two off the head and then the volley in, unreal.
00:10:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, definitely. Alanga Bali, what I think when we've been on recently, you've always been calling for Yossa or Soza to start ahead of Alanga over these last few games. Is Alanga back? He's had that time out of the team and it's had the desired effect, or would you still have rather seen Jotter and Soza as the starting wingers rather than Alanga in the game yesterday?
00:10:26
Marley
I think everything works exactly as it needed to. Alanga dropped four. He got dropped. He's come back in the side. He's sharper. He's looking more hungry. He's got three goals and one assist in his last four games. So that's goal contributions in every single one of the last four games. And he's not looking like slowing down at all. he or He could have scored two or three times against Everton. So you can see he's really hungry. He's looking really sharp as well. There's a massive like upgrading quality in him as well.
00:10:56
Marley
He's lucky, he's playing a lot better, he's using his pace more, taking on men more. I just think he's realised that he needed to look his form up, he's placing as he wasn't guaranteed. And he's done exactly right, it's had the perfect desired effect and there's much more to come from him still.
00:11:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Definitely, I think that's what we, it's exciting to see about this this start of the season, because certainly in the national media, so those who aren't following Forrest as closely as we are, Forrest were being called the Chris Wood team, almost, by some new tools. We were saw the table, saw Forrest during the night, thought, oh yeah, they're the Chris Wood team, haven't got anybody else. But now it's important that, as well as Chris Wood keeping up his form, we are seeing more and more from Elanga, even Milankovic from an attacking point of view,
00:11:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
um And yeah, I think there certainly is more to come from the attacking players. Even Yates, he's only got one this season. Dominguez, he had to score, and he scored a few last year. So the more we share the goals around, the better, the better going forward.
00:11:59
James Rigby
ah Does anyone know what the deal was with Hudson and Diamis today?
00:12:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
I've heard it's not serious. Apparently in the postman, actually, they don't expect either Morello or Hyson and Doy to be out for long. Whatever you write, I think that was Definitely surprised to see the team sheet that Hudson Adoy wasn't there at all. I had certainly hadn't seen him be tipped to miss a game at all. But yeah, I don't think it's it's worrying. But like we said, Sosa got his chance. Marley, I know you've been backing Sosa since the start of his podcast. How do you think he did when he was finally inserted into that Forest starting team?
00:12:38
Marley
A little 50-50, there were some bright sparks from him but also some points where I think he could have done a bit better.
00:12:43
James Rigby
It's.
00:12:44
Marley
I think for a player who's only had one star in it being the cup and it's his first real proper taste of English football, it is relatively well. It did quite well. I think he just needs a bit more sharpness, a bit more match fitness and it'll be fully there. A few more longer cameos off a bench maybe in the coming games and he'll be there.
00:13:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
plus that start again hopefully against Luton next week, next weekend. Then the substitutes Nuno made throughout the game, I mean to be honest I've got nothing insightful to say, they were just with the right moves to make at the right time. We got to 2-0, Bronven Bali to go to the back three to Bali in their Marato role of being that closer, and the other subs were Taiwo, Tofflo, Ward Prowse, and Giotto Silva both coming on to give the players who had started started the game a breather. But Marley, you would have liked someone else who was named on the bench to have got some minutes.
00:13:43
Marley
ah zakka but Yeah, i was I was hoping if we went 3-0 up or we were 2-0 up with 10 minutes ago, Zach Abbott would get his Premier League debut, but ah sadly it wasn't to be.
00:13:50
James Rigby
that
00:13:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, this is still nice though, so for those um listening who might not know, Marley John explained the significance to why Abbott was specifically put on the bench yesterday.
00:14:05
Marley
Yeah, Forest do have a record to uphold where we have had an academy graduate in the matchday squad, so starting or on the bench, for each one of the last 4,000 and something games about 80 years and so with Yates suspended we wouldn't have had a single academy graduate on the bench or on the pitch so we called Zach Abbott up to the bench because Nina was aware of record and he does not want it to end on his watch.
00:14:18
James Rigby
That's it.
00:14:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
and How important do you think of this James? I know we've done the academy in general when we did ah an enjoyable wildcard Wednesday a few weeks ago and our favourite academy players from the past but in the future do you think Premier League points are more important because a lot of this record has came from when we were in mid-table championships so it's easy enough to give a Jordan Smith a go or put a and Jordan Lawrence Gabriel on the bench.
00:14:41
James Rigby
Yeah.
00:14:54
James Rigby
Yeah, um I wasn't aware of the record until probably just before Christmas when people were concerned about the Yates second yellow, which obviously came um eventually, so he got the suspension. and But it's it's unreal, isn't it? I don't think there's a lot of clubs out there at this level of football, like you were saying, you know, sometimes it's easier at the lower levels and to have those academy graduates there, and that's what you need. and But to be able to Say you've you've had that that's an ongoing record as well. It's not just a record that we're starting again from um Is unreal, I mean um It'd be interesting to see if there was a league table um of that if someone had actually done some sort of stats, but I guess unless you've got a good run like that, you're not going to count it so
00:15:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah I think the not nice thing as a thing that I said in our chat, because now that there are 20 players n in a matchday squad, it's 11 starters and of course 9 on the bench.
00:16:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
um it it was mean you know He has had a non-playing serve for quite some time, so until his recent couple of cameos with Moreno being injured, Toffolo was at non-playing serve. He travelled with the team because um You can tell that he's a good influence, he's a good player to have on the dressing room in the dressing room. If you're Harry Toffolo, and it's when it was Aina and Moreno starting, and then Niki
Academy Tradition: Ensuring Graduate Presence
00:16:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Williams also on the bench, Toffolo knew he was pretty much never going to play. So to have in this big squad game of 20 man match day squads, you need someone to be that character to travel knowing they aren't going to play at all. but
00:16:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
for the understanding that they're there for a different role, to help with the warm-ups, to help with morale, for Abbott to be in that role as a, for the experience, I think it's definitely is really nice um that Nuno has been made aware of the record and he has helped us keep it going.
VAR Transparency: Carabao Cup Trial
00:16:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
um but
00:16:58
James Rigby
Guys, I've got a little bit of breaking news if that's something we do here.
00:16:58
Marley
Yeah.
00:17:02
Marley
No hat.
00:17:04
Global Sports Podcast Network
gofriend Go for it, go for it.
00:17:05
James Rigby
It is is's kind of forest-related, seeing as we slate the PGMOL to high heaven, sorry. and So, in a statement, the PGMOL and said, um in-stadium VAR announcements will be trialed in the Carabra Cup semi-finals, which should start next week.
00:17:26
James Rigby
A first in English football referees will announce a final decision following the visits to the VAR pitchside monitor or upon the conclusion of factual matters such as accidental handball by a goal scorer or offside offences where the attacker touches the ball.
00:17:43
James Rigby
The trial, which forms part of our broader commitment to transparency, including providing greater clarity and understanding around key decisions, will run over both legs of the Arsenal vs Newcastle and Tottenham vs Liverpool ties.
00:17:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
So in practice then that's what they the re the read them out and say is that an announcement or you can you go live and you can hear hear the VR room.
00:18:07
James Rigby
um I'm hoping it's going to be the referee, American football style, NFL stands at the side of the pitch or wherever he is, and clicks his little button and says, you know, on field decision, offside, confirmed or, you know, offside against such and such a player or accidental handball, his body first or whatever the decision is, surely and it's up to the ref to announce that.
00:18:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah mean beyond the big ceremony i'll come to shortly On the big during the Euros here in Germany, um it it was it wasn't spoken but it was written. And on the screen it was very, very detailed. They've sort of done it in the Premier League now. It just says and check in progress, check complete. But in the Euros in Germany, it was very detailed. It was the referee thought Spain's number eight had fouled Italy's number 14 on second review. He decided he was outside the box to join the Euros. It was very detailed, very in-depth. Marley, what's your what your take?
00:19:13
Marley
Well, it's that the the Premier League kind of has this sort of thing already. They they have a Twitter page where they will post v what has actually been like come up with the decision and the reasoning behind it on Twitter.
00:19:26
Marley
And at the city ground, we put that up on the big screen. But the actual announcement thing, I have actually seen it in practice before.
00:19:35
James Rigby
Okay.
00:19:35
Marley
On the TV, I watched a few Women's World Cup games and they had it
00:19:41
James Rigby
yeah
00:19:42
Marley
in there and there was one I remember which was in the final where England gave away a penalty where she was called to the monitor, went to the monitor, turned around did the VAR signal and then spoke to a crowd saying upon review I've decided that the handball was inside the penalty area and was a handball offence and therefore I will be awarding a penalty kit and then pointed to the spot and blew a whistle.
00:20:05
James Rigby
ah
00:20:09
James Rigby
You know what, I can't say it being anything but a good thing. I do you remember that now, Marley.
00:20:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
It was at the penalty where Nottingham's finest Marriott then went on to save and then Maude were very very visible in regards to into the camera which was instant instantly turned into to a gif.
00:20:23
Marley
it indeed is it indeed is that penalty yes
00:20:28
James Rigby
Speaking of referees, right, I know correlation is not causation, but this is an interesting one. and So Nuno was asked the other week about the referee's standard and said, you know, it's got better, you know, what what the forest think of it now, it's got better.
00:20:45
James Rigby
and Isn't it funny that now that we've we've had a season of hissy fit about the rest referees and called them out, now we're getting better decisions and now we're second in the league? like Now that the refs are actually giving the right decisions,
00:21:03
James Rigby
we're winning, you know, it's just a random thing that popped into my head. I'm not saying it's it's any sort of thing. I just thought it was an interesting correlation there that someone might make to say, you know, we were cheated out of it last year and we should have won the luke.
00:21:19
James Rigby
I'm joking.
00:21:19
Marley
It could be, it could be a bit of subconscious in the referee's head.
00:21:23
James Rigby
thanks very
00:21:24
Marley
I know they sound like a wild conspiracy, but it might be the last season when a few refereeing decisions started going against us, people started saying, oh, the referees hate us. The rest might have had it in subconsciously in the back of the red.
00:21:37
Marley
So I don't like this team. This team gets decisions against them all the time. What difference is it? So when they're having to quickly think, wait, which way is it going? Subconsciously they'll automatically be slightly biased towards the side playing against us.
00:21:50
Marley
Whereas this season, because we've had so much pushing, there might have been something said in a meeting pre-season, that subconscious might have been ripped away. And if maybe slightly against us, slightly for us, or just completely neutral, it's not happening anymore.
00:22:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that the biggest difference is that, yeah, I think we're just not needing the referee to bail us out because we aren't noticing these referee decisions because um we aren't letting in 10 goals a game from corners and praying that, oh, one of them shouldn't have counted because one of our players was found in the build up or because we are we're making our own look.
00:22:05
Marley
But I know that there is some sort of possibility.
00:22:26
James Rigby
yeah
00:22:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
um I think there certainly is some some level of players not wanting to be on the end of Maranaki's spits on their feet in the tunnel. I think the the biggest difference between last year and this is needing the marginal calls because we're just that much better and we don't need to rely on these split-second decisions.
00:22:49
James Rigby
Well, what are we thinking of the referee in the Everton game? Because that became a tasty game. and In the first half, you know Braithwaite was lucky to stay on the pitch.
00:23:01
Marley
I think I think it was Tarkovsky.
00:23:01
James Rigby
always Was it Braithwaite or was it Tarkovsky? That's it. Lucky to stay on the pitch. Definitely two yellow card challenges. The second challenge was even more of a yellow card than the first one.
00:23:15
James Rigby
And and they they should have been down to 10.5 time. It was unreal what the referee was letting go in the first half. and Probably borderline and dangerous, some of those tackles. And, you know, when one goes in from one side and another goes in from the other side, I'm not saying that Forrest were um in any way innocent in the matter. and But yeah, I thought the referee let a lot go in that game.
00:23:41
Marley
Yeah, think I think that game should have had, at least either way, a penalty and a red card. Every time I had a red card, one of us should have had a penalty for a lot of in the penalty area shirt pulling and arm pulling that was completely ignored. um But that and the Fulham game where we should have had a definite penalty and Fulham got given a penalty that really was not a penalty are the only two games where I can really think a referee has actually messed up and cost us a game.
00:24:11
Marley
Maybe Anthony Taylor gets Newcastle with a potential.
00:24:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think that the Fulham game was was weird though. It was also our worst performance of the season. I mean, you're right, we should have had a penalty. um But even then, again, it's over at the bottom of the table, like we were last year, not getting a penalty against Fulham. Could have been the difference between 17th and 18th. But the fact is, we we we are we are second-second at at the time of recording. is It means that, yeah, I know that I'm not going to be this polite about referees when it's ah community shield placed on the line but ultimately Fulham we play a bad league so we we remember the bad refereeing decision although the games were playing so well we've kind of been able to shake off any refereeing decisions I don't think and we've benefited from better refereeing maybe the villa winner being the exception apart from that I think we're just playing so well that we can ignore the outside noise and just get on with doing our thing
00:25:08
James Rigby
Yeah, no, absolutely. um So what about the second goal? and We've been through the first one, the the little heads and Does anyone want to go through the second?
Team Goal: Forest's Offensive Showcase
00:25:21
Marley
Yeah, it was a the great goal, wasn't it? it was A brilliant, well, mistake from Everton to give us the ball. Antony Alanga with a very nice ball across to Chris Wood. Chris Wood inside, just either inside or just outside the penalty area, played it through.
00:25:37
Marley
to Morgan Gibbs-White just inside the penalty area, adjusted his footing so the ball was on the right place for a sweet left footed strike, curls it into the top corner for a post.
00:25:48
James Rigby
Yeah.
00:25:48
Marley
And it was an amazing goal really. and Massive celebrations, Gibbs-White knee sliding with Williams and Alanga in front of the away end, fingers and ears as usual.
00:25:54
James Rigby
um
00:25:59
Marley
And it put a second in the league so who can complain?
00:26:03
James Rigby
so I thought that that that was the difference, that goal showed the difference yesterday and between the two teams. And I know that seems strange to say, because the goals are what make the difference between the teams. and But it was the decision making inside the box, the coolness. and Chris Wood, it would have been easy where he was running, you know, he was just off from the penalty spot, a couple of plays in front of him, just a lash at the ball and think, I'm just going to hit it as hard as I can on target.
00:26:33
James Rigby
hope it takes a deflection, hope it sneaks past, you know, but he didn't, you could see him looking up, he waited for the gap, he slotted it across to Gibbs White, Gibbs White also had a decision to make, he'd got a player in front or coming across him trying to show him down the line on the outside, he could have gone that way, he could have lashed at it again, he didn't, he stayed cool, he played the ball, backheeled it between his own legs,
00:26:59
James Rigby
um which sent the Everton defender you know off to Bedfordshire and then slotted it away, you know one along with Pickford. So I think the coolness and the calmness from all the players in the box at that moment is what makes a difference in the final third. There was decisions there, it would have been easy to for both of them just lash at the ball and hit it and and hope but they didn't and I think that's what Everton were doing. Whenever they got into the final third
00:27:36
James Rigby
They were overheating at the amount of crosses that they hit that just went out for gold kicks or you know smashing long-range efforts because I think that they were just happy to be there. Maybe they just didn't feel that they had the support of their other players around them. So when they got to the edge of the 18-yard box, that there wasn't an option or they didn't choose the right option.
00:28:00
James Rigby
and but that was a difference. We were comfortable. I felt in the other team's box, enabled to play. A couple of times we overplayed, but on that occasion ah all the players got a decision making right.
00:28:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
As I was saying, three players again that are involved in in the first goal gives Wyatt and I can get in words just in a completely different combination. It's not just not the heads and volleys like we spoke about, but the capitalising on the mistake and the real intricate passing play between them just shows that we've got those players who can do do damage to any any defence and any goalkeeper in the Premier League.
00:28:32
Marley
Thank you.
00:28:38
James Rigby
Yeah, well it's it's similar similar in that first goal, this decision you making, how easy would it have been for a Langer? when Wood headed the ball across to him to think, right, I need to pull this down now and get a shot off. um When that really wasn't the the easiest thing to do, easy to mess that up, easy to have taken the wrong. You know, if he tried to pull it down and taken too many touches, run out of space, no. He saw that Wood was still, you know, ah advancing and in space and just nodded it back, you know, both on goal scoring form.
00:29:13
James Rigby
You could forgive him for taking the shot and being greedy because he wanted four in a row. So, yeah, but he he didn't made the right decision for the team.
00:29:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Definitely. So I know this has been the time of the year where we no clue what day it is, but our next match is not for a full week, right? Wolves, Monday Night Football.
00:29:31
James Rigby
I know it's bad, innit?
00:29:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, it's a full full week away, which I think is is good. It was a nice, this time of the year, it's ah as long a break as you're going to get. we Time for maybe Mira Loewen as an adoy to get a fitness back if they are struggling for something.
00:29:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
And those players who have been playing lots of football, Gibbs White, Anderson, Aina to get get a bit of rest. um So on that note, any further thoughts on on the Everton game?
00:29:58
James Rigby
No. Come on, you rats.
00:29:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
and you And we'll be back with you hopefully in the coming days.
00:30:00
Marley
ah I do.
00:30:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Look out for your fees, what we've been invited into the top four crossover episodes. So it'll be nice letting Marley, you'll be our rep density there. I'm sure you can give it a go by Forrest.
00:30:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll still be in that top four coming into the season. Thanks for listening.