Rayvin

He's absolutely one of these people who just cannot be graceful in defeat. Basically puts our goals down to chaos, deflections and luck, while his own team were comfortably the ones deserving of the win apparently. Absolute fucking weapon of a man. Deserves all the failure he delivers.

He'd be a terrible fit for them tbh. Reckon he's just looked at the league and picked them at random. Heavily pro Labour city and fanbase, owned by that bellend Not sure about that one.

Aye that was an impressive interview indeed. All about his team, downplayed his own goal and heaped praise on Isak. Really impressive because reality is, he's a very important player to us too.

Absolutely superb. We can beat fucking anyone on our day tbh. We're coached better than 95% of the league, and we have very good players.

GET THE FUCK IN MAANNNNNNN

I'm watching this on Sky/Now and they've honestly been pretty positive about us

Aye but they changed that, Arteta now has them operating as an homage to us

Would say they need 3-1 to make this a bad result for us now mind.

Good half tbf. We look really professional these days, all over the pitch.

Arteta fucking hates us mind. Doesn't directly say it but it's there

Absolutely this. 1-0 defeat not the end of the world.

I thought we had Schar back for this one, was his ban more than 1 game?

Yeah I don't doubt we can beat them but the rest of the league seems incredibly slow at responding to tactical shifts in other teams, or plotting how to deal with them. Almost like most of the people running football clubs aren't really that smart. I would add to your list that prioritising an early goal would be significant - forces them to attack against a defending team and opens up potential for the quick breaks you mention.

Some of it might be earmarked for contract renewals mind. It's also possible that it was a calculated risk against hoped for future earnings.

This is still valid to some extent. Arsenal are that fragile that us beating them in the cup might well torpedo their league campaign.

Wolves' passing is diabolical. It reminds me of how we used to be. In a sense, as frustrating as it is in this game, it's nice to remember how far we've come.

Well, Wolves aren't turning that around. Forest don't look amazing, just fast.

Wolves literally firing chances into Sels' chest ffs.

Aye just saw it yeah - set piece and two counter attack goals. This is the thing tbh once they're struggling they've got to attack and the whole thing falls apart. Maybe they'd have more success at our place, perversely.

This is the worry - Wolves can have all the pressure they want but they have to make it count because on any given attack they could get torn open again if it goes wrong. Really difficult once Forest are ahead tbh. Might rewatch the highlights of our game against them tbh, curious how we dealt with this.

Yep, overcommitted and got burned.

One thing they said about Forest earlier mind, was that their approach is largely counter attacks - and just there seeing they've the lowest possession in the league. Could it be that their success is coming from teams underestimating them and attacking too aggressively? Kind of like our CL qualification season. If so, it's not sustainable long term IMO. They'll be found out.

At least we got mentioned a few times courtesy of being the comparison between the two Man Utd games Granted, it was all "Man Utd changed things and did this" rather than "Newcastle were just better than Liverpool at dealing with them", but hey ho. Take what we can get I suppose.

I'm gonna watch the Forest game this evening and try and make an active effort to convince myself that they're shit and will fall away.

Apparently Trossard was sent off against City for 'delaying the restart'. Think he said they had another one for that too but I'm not sure which.