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Ep34 - Forest pound the Hammers!
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James reacts to Saturday's 3-0 battering of West Ham. with some help from our match reporter Marley.
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Forest's Current Standing and Recent Games
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Hi everyone. I'm James here at the daily forest. And what a weekend it's been. Uh, this weekend was the West Ham game forest versus West Ham at the city ground. And at the time of recording, uh, Sunday night and the Chelsea match and the Aston Villa match, Aston Villa Spurs and Chelsea United have completed and the results went for us. So before we get into the match, I just want to say we still sit third in the premier league third baby.
Pre-game Analysis: Forest vs. West Ham
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ah Um, and.
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Marley was at the game and following our game when we were in third, he yeah had this to say.
00:00:48
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Third in the Premier League, absolutely nuts. And the pundits are actually starting to come around to us, but back to the game. So it was 3pm on the Saturday and West Town were travelling on the back of a win from ah Man United with some help from VAR and the referees.
00:01:06
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ah but they beat United so they were on a bit of a high they were coming in I heard a lot beforehand West Ham fans saying you know well a draw and maybe sneak a win and different things and and hoping that the West Ham that could win a game showed up they've been a bit hit and miss lately but unfortunately it didn't matter what West Ham team showed up because the Forest team that are beating every man and his dog showed up So before the game, and we had a moment of silence and we had fours of Garibaldi in the Trent end with, again, epic banners, flags, the lot showing the world why forest is the rebel city and why the PGMOL and the FA need to go and
00:01:53
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but sorry this is why it's better if there's someone else here because um you don't have to put it with my utter banter but the game started ah the starting lineup was what we've come to expect really um a solid Goalkeeper with cells in goal, back four in front of him, with Murillo, Milankovic, Aina on the right, and Moreno on the left. In front of them, we had the captain fantastic, which is Ryan Yates, with Dominguez. And in front of him was the only change. And that was um Gibbs-White coming in for Anderson. Now, we know that Anderson took a knock um in the previous game, and that he wasn't involved in the open training last week.
00:02:40
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but He was on the subs bench, so maybe a bit of Housery there, and you know, playing up his injury a bit more. and But he would come into play later in the game. On the wings, as we come to expect, Callum Hudson or Doy. Super Callum Hudson or Doy.
Chris Wood's Impact and Goal
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I'll stop singing. um And then we've got Alanga out on the right. And up front, the man, the mighty oak of Chris Wood. Who can stop this man? I cannot believe we are actually saying that Chris Wood is in with a chance of winning the Golden Boot this season. He's only a couple of goals behind Harland. There's Palmer and Bueno. Harland and Palmer aren't firing at the minute.
00:03:27
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And Buemo, yep, he's doing OK. But come on, Salah's going to be a ah challenger. But Chris Wood, keep up this form, my friend. And a lot of Newcastle fans were very happy to see him go. And a lot of Forest fans thought, what is going on, bringing Chris Wood in? But what Nuno seems to have done and what what the team seemed to have done is played to Chris Wood's strengths. He's not the fastest player in the world. He can get about the pitch.
00:03:54
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But what they've done is they've put him in the middle, and they've surrounded him with speed, with pace, with trickery, so that he can be there to finish it off. And I think a lot of teams are losing this. They've lost that focal point in the middle of the park. People say Harlan's not a great footballer, but he scores goals. He's in the middle of the park, and you get the ball to him in the right place, and he scores the goals. I think Chris Wood's the same. um And I think I never thought I'd compare Chris Wood to Harlan, but I think he's the same.
00:04:24
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and So we come to the match. Everyone is absolutely you know up for it in the first two minutes for us to have an amazing chance that comes to Hudson Adoy around the penalty area. It was slightly behind him, slightly scuffed shot. But then for the first 20 minutes after that,
00:04:41
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It was a bit of a stalemate, if I'm honest, it until Moreno sprints down the left-hand side, takes it to the byline, cuts back in, clips a beautiful crossing. And just as I was saying, if you put the speed there, you put the cross in, who's going to be there in the right place at the right time? Chrissie Wood. Nods it into the goal. 1-0, Forrest. Absolutely fantastic. Crowd goes crazy. um What can you do? Nothing. You can do nothing.
00:05:09
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And it was it was also later in the game. in that first half that we've got Murillo stepping up
Forest's Defensive Strategy
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out of defense. And this was what began probably the ultimate downfall of West Ham. Milankovitch and Murillo. Murillo being the trigger man to show when that defense was gonna push up. And he did that. He stepped up, he took the ball um and steps through the center circle. He strident through and Alcaraz had to
00:05:40
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pull his shirt back and gets his first yellow card um and from that point on we were absolutely purring so the the game continues and it's a couple of good chances but looking like half time 1-0. Westam had a good chance just after the Chris Wood goal um and yeah it's it's Chris Wood again was on the line and managed to back heal it with his left left boot um on the near post and out for a corner. So goal line clearance from Chris Wood and a goal in the first half almost practically two goals from the man.
00:06:22
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So definitely people picking Chris Wood up in their FPL and their fantasy teams. Um, he was one of the top three transferred in players this week and we can see why. So halftime comes and let's hear from the mighty Marley with his halftime report.
00:07:05
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So the goal line clearance was wood, not Yates, unlucky Miley, but Miley was at the game and I don't think he was sat at that end, so tough one to see. And he was speaking about Okares with his um red card for a second yellow.
00:07:18
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And as he said, should have had ah a straight red for a challenge on ah Dominguez, ah but I think it was Gibbs White that he actually challenged on the edge of the 18-yard box. He went through the back of him as he was taking a shot. So we we got a free kick and that was it. It was already on a yellow.
00:07:37
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and then um towards the end of the first half, Elanga's breaking up the right hand side. You could see there was no one in the middle from Forrest, I'm always saying woods there, but we were we were defending at the time. and Woods on his way, you got Hudson and I are coming in, but there was five West Ham defenders in the middle to deal with the ball. There was no need for anyone to go flying in. But I thought it was his day. He was going to go flying in. And he did so. So Alvarez. No, oh I said Alvarez Alvarez went flying in um and took out a longer nothing of the ball. Second yellow card. Easy as you like. Easy decision for the referee.
00:08:19
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on you go. Half time comes and time for a breather but Forrest just wanted to go again and
Second Half Dominance and Key Players
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we did. We came out in the second half and yeah with within a minute we were already having chances. We were absolutely fantastic but before we go through the second half and just want to have a quick word from our sponsors.
00:09:03
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chat the link guys um so before we go on I want to know did any of you go to the game um let us know in the comments if you were at the game if you saw the game anywhere but most of all where you celebrated the result um so I celebrated here at the house with ah my young young lad Alfie who is super red I live in Bradford I thought for a minute he was going to be a Bradford fan and that was almost a fate worse than him becoming a Derby fan, but we managed to keep him with the mighty reds. So, um, so, uh, second half, second half comes forest are going for it. We are pushing and pushing. Um, and 65 minutes comes along and it's time to make some changes. We have, uh, Gibbs white off and on comes Elliott Anderson.
00:09:56
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pardon of me, Elliot Anderson comes on and almost immediately makes a difference in the game. He runs down the left hand side, taking on players, wins a foul near the byline on the left hand side of the 18 yard box, steps up to take the free kick. And we were watching and we could already see what the, the ah how West Ham couldn't see this. Callum Hudson or Doy just lingered near the edge of the 18 yard box.
00:10:22
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um And you knew it was it was a pullback in a shot, and Hudson and I sticks it top corner. There were a couple of small deflections, but amazing. And the party started from there, 2-0, West Ham down to 10 men, and then we just started toying with them. And ah um it was yeah fantastic, great scenes.
00:10:45
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And we, we carried on the match, a couple more subs came on, we used all of them. Um, so Anderson's on, Sosa's on, Jota's on, Awoni's on, really wanted Awoni to get a goal. Um, yeah, so absolutely fantastic assists from Anderson and Moreno, 78 minutes.
00:11:05
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Aina's coming in off the right-hand side and you're thinking, you know, have a go. um He loses possession of the ball and the West Ham player, um Toledo, makes a right mess of it. And he he puts it back in front of Aina and it's a bit of a bouncing ball off his knee and he just half volleys it. Goal of the month contender.
00:11:28
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into the top corner from the edge of the 18-yard box. Absolutely fantastic. I'll lie in and take a bow. He's at the yeah is it the ah Trent end corner with the main stand, giving it all this, putting his meal together and lapping it up. The rest of the team are there with him. um you know just absolutely amazing scenes and yeah just it carried on. We had Milenkovich. Milenkovich, what a game. He had ah one, almost one assist for the fourth goal, which was ruled out by Villa. Oh, we'll come to that. He had two amazing
00:12:07
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um Chances, he had a ah good header that was saved and then towards the end of the game he had almost a point-blank volley on target and Fabianski for West Ham made a worldy of a save, reaction save, just plucking it out of the air. And then he sets up Yates.
00:12:28
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nods it down to him in the box in the eight slots, slots it away for the fourth. We had a really, really long VAR check because there were several phases of play and they were checking offside in every phase of play, whereas they should just give us a goal. It would have been quicker. Um, I knew many differences to our goal difference, which would have been grand. Uh, but yeah, the fourth was never to be, but by that time in the game, we were toying with them. West Ham were done. They just wanted to go home. They wanted to get on the bus.
00:12:57
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um And you could tell by the the way that the fans were reacting to the news. Here's our reporter at the stadium, Marley.
00:13:15
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They've gone home, Marley. So, yeah, we we were talking with them and you know, you're talking in with them when yeah it's like a training game and you're just playing Rondo in the corner with the some of their players in the middle. It's it's almost like a warm-up and the fans start getting involved. Here we go. We want more.
00:13:44
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You know, that's housery from the fans there, cheering every pass because The game's gone. The West Ham players, again, just don't want to be there. and But yeah, it was amazing. And something that I was reading before the game and was about this new kind of system that Forest are playing. So under Cooper, where in the first couple of seasons, we played the low block. We let teams come on. And then we would spring the the attack. And we'd we'd always be up there with the best teams for the counter attack and fast goals on the counter, which was great.
00:14:23
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But we'd also be up there with goals conceded because we were letting the teams come right on to us. And we were literally defending for our lives on the edge of the 18 yard box constantly. But something that Nuno's done is he stepped us forward 20, 25 yards into a mid block.
00:14:40
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So now, yes, we're organised, but we've stepped out and teams still have, we're still top of the ah league for allowing teams to have possession in our final third. But that possession is not turning into shots because he's organised that back four so well in the defensive midfield that we're breaking up the play. And we're just letting them have the ball there because it's no danger to us. And by them having the ball there,
00:15:08
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inviting their players out, we then make the spacing behind for our wingers to attack our fast players to get in there and
Tactical Shifts and Future Aspirations
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cut them to pieces. So that's that's what Nuno has been doing. And that's what's been working. And it's funny that everyone can see it, but they can't stop it at the moment. and The next five games are going to be difficult with Newcastle Arsenal, Man City, Man United, um Villa.
00:15:35
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Ipswich being easy ish one, hopefully, but in in five or six games time, it will really show, um you know, what our season is going to shape up to be. And um yeah, some some fans um are happy. All fans are happy, let's be honest.
00:16:04
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We are Forrest, we are Forrest, you know, is our king.
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So yes, fans speaking of European football and a lot of people out there hoping that Forrest get European football now, because how amazing would it be to see the mighty Reds back in Europe?
00:16:21
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And I said to my lads, you know, even if we can't get a ticket, we'll go just to be there in the city, watch it in a local bar and say that we went to Leverkusen, you know, Marseille, wherever it might be. um It'd be absolutely fantastic.
Celebrations and Team Cohesion
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And something that's becoming um like just standard fare at the city ground now is the party following the game. I don't know why the club aren't leaning into this more and bringing on possibly, you know, party hats. I don't know. and But having something, they might not want to jinx it and prepare a proper party for afterwards. But the players, the team seem to be just sticking around and partying with the fans. And Marley got the opportunity this time to party with one of his favorite players.
00:17:18
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What a day. Him and a couple of others singing songs with Ola Ena. Absolutely amazing the way things are going at the moment. Callum Hudson-Adoy was one of the last ones apparently to leave the city ground pitch um and he's just loving his time. And I really hope we can keep this group of players together that we don't end up with, you know, just journeymen and and that we can keep them together because there's something really growing here at Forest at the moment.
00:17:47
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Um, but thanks for being with us this evening. And it was only a short one, uh, with me on me, Todd, but, uh, hopefully we'll have some of the other presenters back with us later in the week, um, for tactics, Tuesday, wildcard, Wednesday, crossover, Thursday, and review Friday. Forecast Friday, but for now, um, I've been James, this has been GSPN and the daily forest podcast. I will see you later.