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Thursday Crossover: Brentford vs. Nottingham Forest
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Join us as we look towards our clash on Saturday and we see if Brentford can continue their amazing at home. Will Forest, who have been flying ahead this season, be the ones to end this excellent home run?
Hosts:
Daily Brentford: Lydia
Daily Forest: Marley
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Transcript
Introduction and Match Preview
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to our listeners from the Daily Brentford and Daily Forest Podcast. I'm Lydia from Daily Brentford. And today we'll be previewing Saturday's clash at the GTEC Community Stadium and giving our production ah predictions.
Traveling to Matches and Regrets
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Today I'm joined by Marley from the Daily Forest. How are you today?
00:00:26
Marley
I'm very good, thank you. ah Looking forward to a great episode and a great game on Saturday.
00:00:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Good. Exciting. Will you be there? Or I guess a bit of a trek near Christmas?
00:00:35
Marley
Yeah, sadly I will not be there. I spent all my money on going to the Etihad in Old Trafford and I should be working anyway.
00:00:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:00:43
Marley
Used my day off for City Away, which was a bad idea.
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i
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I mean, yeah, you you never know. that There could be... Well, I was annoyed that I didn't go to the... There was one City Away game. I think it was last season. and I was nearly going to go because it was near my uni and then we won and of course that was the one time I was like oh no I'll sit it out I was so annoyed but there's always another time.
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Forest's Surprising Premier League Performance
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So to start off today's episode, I thought I'd gauge how you're feeling about the season so far.
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Obviously positive, very positive. um And do you think that you can maintain this like fourth position to the end of the season?
00:01:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you have high notes about?
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Marley
I'm not sure if I'm honest.
00:01:46
Marley
I'm not sure if I'm honest. It feels special because a few years ago, as I've said on our podcast, I would be delighted with Forefinger Championship, pushing for playoffs, looking like getting promoted.
00:01:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:01:58
Marley
So Forefinger Premier League, looking at Champions League is surreal for us, but normally, normally we'd be known to get into this sort of position and then throw it away in the final few games.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
and Yeah, crazy.
00:02:10
Marley
like I mean, properly throw it away. I remember we were said set for automatic promotion a few years ago and after a 4-1 loss to stone we possibly play offs.
00:02:21
Marley
I think that minus in the season you went up, if not the season them before you went up.
00:02:25
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Yeah.
00:02:26
Marley
I think the season before you went up and that was really frustrating but under noon overseas everything feels different, everything feels improved so if we're going to break that curse any season obviously we kind of broke it when we got playoffs and got promoted you know
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What?
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Marley
If we don't bottle,
Breaking Curses: Forest's Recent Wins
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Yeah.
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Marley
we do finish in European places.
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Got me crazy.
00:02:48
Marley
It would be magical feeling is the feelings we definitely have.
00:02:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:02:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I definitely think you guys can and I think that for me like as a Not as a forest fan. It's definitely a team that's giving more entertainment this season like different style of play and I'd be Happy to see the forest take forth to be honest um You're also like coming off the back of consecutive wins So are you like? and ah Do you think you're in a good place for Saturday?
Brentford's Home Record and Concerns
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Marley
Yes, we're in a very good place this Saturday, honestly. Wins away at Old Trafford and at home to... Sorry, sorry losing myself. Wins away at Old Trafford and at home to Villa, one of which coming in the last minute, one of which breaking a curse that has stuck with us for two years now of losing 3-2 at every given opportunity. We've finally won 3-2. It just kind of feels like a massive uplifting thing.
00:03:52
Marley
Because in the last two years, we haven't scored any equalizers or winners in stoppage time. And we hadn't won 3-2 in the Premier League yet.
00:04:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Dan, I didn't know that last time.
00:04:02
Marley
We hadn't won 3-2 in the Premier League yet, but we kept losing 3-2.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
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Marley
And in the last two weeks, we've won 3-2 and scored a last stoppage time winner, which is two things that we were getting frustrated about, broken. So it kind of feels like not only are we doing well, we're breaking everything that's been frustrating the fans, and hopefully,
00:04:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:04:22
Marley
We can come to the G-Tech and we can continue that in whatever way possible.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, hopefully you didn't break our home record. so far have yet to lose at home.
00:04:31
Marley
Well, we broke Liverpool.
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So yeah, that's one thing I'm worried about.
00:04:34
Marley
<unk>le Liverpool are unbeaten this season to every team other than us.
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I mean, yeah.
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ah ah That's pretty impressive stat.
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Marley
It feels like
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Yeah, I mean, I think, yeah, yeah, definitely. Like what we've got at the minute the best like home record in the season. I'm just hoping we can hold on to that till the new year. But I have to say, as you were saying, Forrest breaking all these like ah no curses, maybe there's a chance that it won't go well for us on Saturday, but hopefully not, hopefully not. So yeah, I'd say you're definitely, and obviously we lost against Newcastle yesterday, and I think a lot of the fans are frustrated that we didn't
00:05:22
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put as much, we didn't play our best players and it didn't really seem like we wanted to progress in the Cup, even though that's what a lot of fans were wanting. So I think there's definitely some frustration, but yeah, it's looking to be exciting on Saturday, definitely.
Chris Wood's Contract Talks at Forest
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I'd say that. Also in the news like this week, Chris Woods in talks for a new contract, do you think he'll stay? I don't see why he wouldn't at this point to be honest.
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Marley
I think he will.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
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Marley
I think he will. I don't think at his age anyone's going to be in a rush to sign him. I think he's in good form, so it would massively benefit us to keep him. And I think he's got good friends in the Forest Squad.
00:06:02
Marley
It's the chemistry, the just the glue, the cohesion behind the scenes that Forest with the players at the minute is unbelievable. Honestly, ah Woody will be really enjoying it.
00:06:13
Marley
And I don't see why he wouldn't extend his contract another year or two, honestly.
00:06:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah i I definitely think even as an outsider, ah That's my guess that he'll stay on.
Brentford's Injury Challenges
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Global Sports Podcast Network
um So, like we said before about Brentford's home record, and again, you said you you were like breaking curses. We've also now got even more injury issues. So do you think that Forest will be able to take advantage of this and like beat Brentford at home?
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Marley
Hopefully, where you where you're playing your backup players due to injuries, we will have fully fit, fully firing, very dangerous players running at them. So that could be what lets you down.
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and Yeah.
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Marley
We've got a couple of injuries of our own, but we've had them ah effectively all season. Danilo broke his ankle in the 17th minute of the season, for God's sake, and Sangare got injured like in the first international break.
00:07:15
Marley
So we've not been without those players all of a sudden. We've been out without them all season. So we've been able to adapt well and any injury we've had since hasn't been serious. You know, Morgan gives White's injury ah mom and that was only suspended in the middle of it.
00:07:31
Marley
So honestly, I don't think we've had much of an issue with that. Whether that will stay the same, you don't know. We could pick up two or three devastating injuries against you and
00:07:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah yeah no that's good i mean i'd say we've kind of had a similar experience and that a lot of the injuries were from right at the start of the season but we just seem to be picking more and more up and
00:07:42
Marley
that could set us up for a downfall but at the minute injury wise it's looking really good and full credit is due to our medical team if they are keeping these injuries from happening and becoming serious.
00:08:05
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people coming back when they're not quite ready and people not getting used to it, being able to like get used to our style of play, et
Forest B Team's Cup Performance
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cetera. And just recently, Pinnock might not be able to play on Saturday and he's someone we'll definitely miss. Rico Henry, he was definitely one of our strongest players. He's been out for ages now. We don't know when he's coming back. We've had loads of people who were out since pre-season.
00:08:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I think it's a bit of a worrying time as a Brentford fan. And again, as well, Seth Vandervoeg as well picked up an injury this week.
00:08:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I don't know if he'll be starting either. um and we like We just don't have that depth of squad like other teams.
00:08:51
Marley
Yeah.
00:08:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like yesterday when it was in the Cup, we have all these players that have never Most of them had never paid a minute in the prem. So it's definitely, I'd say, a depth issue for Brantford.
00:09:10
Marley
yeah it was the same it was the same with us in the Carabao Cup first round or second round against Newcastle United where we started our B team but the majority of that B team had never played for the club all together before you know you had Carlos Miguel who came from Corinthians that summer other summer signings were Eric Marrera there was Sosa and Jota an unfit Awani Elliott Anderson was on the pitch so
00:09:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
So maybe you can capitalise on that. Who knows?
00:09:39
Marley
We had all these new signings trying to gel together while playing a full 90 together. And for some reason it worked. we We played Newcastle off the park for parts of that game. We were unlucky to go out on penalties because we could see it in the first minute.
00:09:53
Marley
And I think that kind of just showed how strong we were going to be this season because you look at a team has no right to outplay Newcastle when Newcastle playing a strong team and they did.
00:09:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:10:04
Marley
And that was our backup side. It just gave us confidence into the season that Every single player we've got on that bench can do a job. Even our 18-year-old academy player Zach Abbott performed like he had from experience in that game. It was magical.
00:10:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
oh that's good I mean, iron ironically, that's who we lost to yesterday as well. Newcastle. So yeah, I think for us, it didn't
Brentford's Cup Performance Frustrations
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work out quite as well. are you we We were really poor and I was frustrated because I really thought that we should have given it a better go getting into the semis. And I think a lot of other fans were questioning Thomas Frank's like thinking behind the team that you played yesterday.
00:10:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
um But I guess now we have more time to focus on getting up into the top half of the league.
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Marley
Yeah,
00:11:00
Marley
yeah I mean I mean, don't be too disheartened, sometimes getting to semis isn't all that pretty. When we first got promoted, we made our first top semi-final in years by beating Wolves in the quarter-final on penalties at the City Ground and United battled us in the semi-final at our face and at Old Trafford, so it's not that glamorous, don't worry.
00:11:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, true. Maybe it's saving some heartache for the future.
Key Players and Match Predictions
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Marley
Probably, yeah.
00:11:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
So after a quick ad break, we're gonna, thought we could discuss plays that we're most excited slash nervous to face on Saturday and then give our all-important score predictions.
00:13:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, okay, so we're back and um thought let's look more towards Saturday. We mentioned Chriswood at the start um and I'd say from Brentford's perspective, he's definitely someone that we'll be like worried about facing on Saturday. I guess he really makes the most of all your guys's set pieces. He's strong at the front and defensively we've been really poor this season. we've yet to have a clean sheet. we always It always ends up being loads of goals. um But yeah, I think defensively, that's an area of concern for us. So I'm expecting a lot of goals again on Saturday. It seems to always be every time I'm at the GTEC, like at least three goals. um So yeah, I'd say definitely Chris Wood is someone to look out for. Who would you say as a Forest fan, you're
00:13:54
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more like nervous about facing on Saturday.
00:13:59
Marley
The immediate worry is your front two, Johan Visser and Brian Umbermo. I believe they have 19 goals between them this season. They both look really deadly on that.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, they really, they're keeping a pair together.
00:14:11
Marley
Yeah, they have done so well to replace Ivan Tony. You seem better without Ivan Tony, if anything, so those two worry me. And this might be the championship a few years ago when he was at Hall City talking, but Keeluis Potter worries me as well.
00:14:26
Marley
i e He was always one who, when we played Hull in the Championship, I'd say, right, man triple mark, Keen Lewis Potter.
00:14:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:14:35
Marley
He's not quite as standout in the Premier League, but I'll still be worried about him.
00:14:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah.
00:14:39
Marley
And if you still but you're still playing tall, strong defender, a bit like Dan Byrne, who could
00:14:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he's he's coming back like he got brought on. He was injured for a bit. But yeah, we're still playing him, even though he is getting on a bit.
00:14:55
Marley
could make Chris Wood a bit struggling because he did struggle against Danburn so I would be worried about Ben Mee should Chris Wood have to come up against him.
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Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:15:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, I'd say, again, like, so I said Chris Wood, and then I'd probably say Alanga as well. I think just our, all our injuries and stuff like that, and our sort of defensive issues. And I think because of your style of play, like, it could be a real issue for us more than usual. um Although, yeah, I think without a doubt, there'll be a lot of goals.
00:15:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
I really have a lot of faith in our front two and Charda now finally has gone into his scoring ways. So I think we've got lots of options on the front. So I think, yeah, if anything, it's going to be exciting and, yeah, a lot of goals. So I thought maybe we could end with our overall score predictions. I'm going to say, even though you mentioned the 3-2 cast, I'm going to say it's going to be a Brentford win 3-2.
00:16:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
and I'm relying on our home records.
00:16:10
Marley
Yeah, I don't think it'll be 3-2 because, one, I don't think we'll concede two goals. We've got such a strong back line at the minute with Murillo and Malenkovic at the incentive back and Sells in the form of his life. All three of our main full backs are playing so well at the minute. I don't think you'll score twice. um And I don't think it'll be, we'll lose by one.
00:16:37
Marley
We seem to have such a fight among us this season that if we're one down in stoppage time, I can see us getting in the stoppage time equalizer.
00:16:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:16:45
Marley
I think we've only lost one got the game by one goal this season.
00:16:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:16:48
Marley
and The others have been, if we've lost, we've lost by two or three.
00:16:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right, OK.
00:16:52
Marley
So I'm going to stick to my prediction from this morning's podcast. And I'm going to say, Nottingham Forest, one goal through Chris Wood and Brentford, one goal through Brian Unburmo.
00:17:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right. OK, so let's draw.
00:17:06
Marley
enough.
00:17:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right. So yeah, I think You know what? There will be, in my mind, there will be a lot of goals, but I see what you mean about your defence as well.
00:17:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I guess we'll just have to see.
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
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um I always like to end the crossover podcast with like a fun question. Do you have any, you mentioned at the start, you've been to a lot of away days, do you have any standout stories or memories from any times travelling away?
00:17:37
Marley
uh not really definitely not safe for podcast stories
00:17:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
We'll let everyone imagine them. All right. Well, thanks for joining. Hopefully you have a more restful Saturday. No crazy wild stories to share. um Thanks for listening, everyone. And remember to tag us in your socials with those school predictions and share with your friends and fellow fans. Thanks for listening. See you.