Your Thoughts On The Current Nottingham Forest Manager

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First half was dire tactically with our main intent to create enforced errors from the long diagonal and win the second ball, all but once QPR had possession of the ball within seconds of it being played long.

The only time it was successful being Da Costa playing it out to Lolley on the right who won a corner.

Our greatest threat came from our width and we didn’t use it enough until we went behind.

Yates and Colback are too similar and neither got high enough up the pitch to influence the game, was that intentional to reduce the space between players to attempt to turn over play? It certainly seemed that way but never looked like working.

I don’t think we’ve played this direct since Cotterill (pre SOD).

Playing long balls early from the back might be a tactic to overcome teams playing an high press against and utilise Da Costa's pace. We are also missing Watson and his ability to pick the ball up deep and start attacks. I think we still need a playmaker to play next to Collback. I like Ryan Yates but he cannot play on the half turn. We do need some fine tuning.

QPR didn’t play high press first half