Final Score Brentford 2 (og, Thiago) Nottingham Forest 0 (10 Viewers)

[Untouchable]

Thiago was extremely poor again

2 goals in 2 and getting no protection from referees. I’d settle for more of the same.

 

[Banana]

 

[Untouchable]

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No different to KLP against Sunderland.

Should be a penalty. Referee appears to be unsighted. Andrew Kitchen on VAR.

 

[ChinaBee]

What a BRILLIANT goal.
The ball to Schade, the one touch to Hickey, the amazing ball to Anthony, who took it towards goal and then the finish.
You wont see much better this season

But but we are a set piece team......that's what everyone tells me

 

[mhead bee]

Forest did what they have done all season, 5 at the back, push wing backs up, 1 fouling diver up top and an over run midfield. Outnumber the midfield and dominate possession, create not much and squander what they do create.

You can either drop one in and match the midfield numbers or stick to your guns like we did and get the goals.

It wasn’t a bad permanence, Forest are very good at closing, keeping and dominating and not scoring, so we did our homework well.

 

[Dribble chop]

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Sexual acts during the match,Whatever next!

 

[gpetersmith]

I have not been a fan for long, seen maybe 50 home games as a Member over the last 5 or 6 years,

But that was perhaps the worst performance I’ve seen from the Bees - apart from a couple of gorgeous passes which created the goals.

The comments that ‘we controlled the game’ display rose-tinted perception, I feel. xG was 0.46 against 0.85 for Forest. Our possession (at home to a bottom 3 team) was 42%. We won only 36.8% of tackles! And only 34 ‘successful final third passes’ against 97 by Forest.

My main frustration watching was we were giving the ball away FAR too easily – borne out by another damning stat, only 71% successful pass completion today, the lowest in the Premiership except for 10-man Palace. Our average at home has been 78% before today, and interestingly away games average is almost the same, even with one outlier, Bournemouth which was only 70%.

So it feels like something was off today. I really don’t think it looked like ‘managing the game’.

Delighted for Igor of course and I felt we defended well, didn’t give away too many silly fouls, etc. But I would be amazed if Keith Andrews was sitting there tonight saying to himself, “we had it all under control”. If Forest had any clue how to actually put the ball in the net we might have been in trouble.

 

[LostBee]

Haven’t read the rest of the thread but thought Forest were one of the worst teams I’ve seen since we came up.

Toothless dogshit - only a City points deduction might save them.

 

[Jezybee]

Justice table has Forest 3rd. I didn’t see it.

Brentford xG 0.46
Nottingham Forest xG 0.85
Brentford shots 7
Nottingham Forest shots 15
Brentford shots on target 1
Nottingham Forest shots on target 1

The Justice score wouldn’t be Brentford 2-0 Nottingham Forest. Very glad to be out performing our Justice position and hope this is the season randomness in a small sample size of 38 games leads to us play Barcelona away in Q4 2027.

 

[Paul_T]

I have not been a fan for long, seen maybe 50 home games as a Member over the last 5 or 6 years,

But that was perhaps the worst performance I’ve seen from the Bees - apart from a couple of gorgeous passes which created the goals.

The comments that ‘we controlled the game’ display rose-tinted perception, I feel. xG was 0.46 against 0.85 for Forest. Our possession (at home to a bottom 3 team) was 42%. We won only 36.8% of tackles! And only 34 ‘successful final third passes’ against 97 by Forest.

My main frustration watching was we were giving the ball away FAR too easily – borne out by another damning stat, only 71% successful pass completion today, the lowest in the Premiership except for 10-man Palace. Our average at home has been 78% before today, and interestingly away games average is almost the same, even with one outlier, Bournemouth which was only 70%.

So it feels like something was off today. I really don’t think it looked like ‘managing the game’.

Delighted for Igor of course and I felt we defended well, didn’t give away too many silly fouls, etc. But I would be amazed if Keith Andrews was sitting there tonight saying to himself, “we had it all under control”. If Forest had any clue how to actually put the ball in the net we might have been in trouble.

That's the worst performance since we've been in the Prem?

 

[brentford born & bred]

With regards to the first goal I thought Thiago had a simple tap in if it hadn't been deflected in by a Florist defender. However having just got home and watched a highlights video I can see he drags the defender marking him down by the arm so assume if he had scored it would have been disallowed.

 

[brentford born & bred]

I have not been a fan for long, seen maybe 50 home games as a Member over the last 5 or 6 years,

But that was perhaps the worst performance I’ve seen from the Bees - apart from a couple of gorgeous passes which created the goals.

The comments that ‘we controlled the game’ display rose-tinted perception, I feel. xG was 0.46 against 0.85 for Forest. Our possession (at home to a bottom 3 team) was 42%. We won only 36.8% of tackles! And only 34 ‘successful final third passes’ against 97 by Forest.

My main frustration watching was we were giving the ball away FAR too easily – borne out by another damning stat, only 71% successful pass completion today, the lowest in the Premiership except for 10-man Palace. Our average at home has been 78% before today, and interestingly away games average is almost the same, even with one outlier, Bournemouth which was only 70%.

So it feels like something was off today. I really don’t think it looked like ‘managing the game’.

Delighted for Igor of course and I felt we defended well, didn’t give away too many silly fouls, etc. But I would be amazed if Keith Andrews was sitting there tonight saying to himself, “we had it all under control”. If Forest had any clue how to actually put the ball in the net we might have been in trouble.

Well KA has stated in his post match comments that considering the circumstances that was the best win of the season .

 

[Banana]

But that was perhaps the worst performance I’ve seen from the Bees

 

[malkay]

I have not been a fan for long, seen maybe 50 home games as a Member over the last 5 or 6 years,

But that was perhaps the worst performance I’ve seen from the Bees - apart from a couple of gorgeous passes which created the goals.

Count yourself lucky you weren't around 20 years ago when we were sleepwalking into League 2 every week and that you never had to witness Thomas Pinault in a Brentford shirt.

 

[VitaminBee]

I have not been a fan for long, seen maybe 50 home games as a Member over the last 5 or 6 years,

But that was perhaps the worst performance I’ve seen from the Bees - apart from a couple of gorgeous passes which created the goals.

The comments that ‘we controlled the game’ display rose-tinted perception, I feel. xG was 0.46 against 0.85 for Forest. Our possession (at home to a bottom 3 team) was 42%. We won only 36.8% of tackles! And only 34 ‘successful final third passes’ against 97 by Forest.

My main frustration watching was we were giving the ball away FAR too easily – borne out by another damning stat, only 71% successful pass completion today, the lowest in the Premiership except for 10-man Palace. Our average at home has been 78% before today, and interestingly away games average is almost the same, even with one outlier, Bournemouth which was only 70%.

So it feels like something was off today. I really don’t think it looked like ‘managing the game’.

Delighted for Igor of course and I felt we defended well, didn’t give away too many silly fouls, etc. But I would be amazed if Keith Andrews was sitting there tonight saying to himself, “we had it all under control”. If Forest had any clue how to actually put the ball in the net we might have been in trouble.

Very surprised to see your previous posts have all been pretty normal, considering the only thing that would reasonably explain this level of utter nonsense is trolling.

 

[hanworthbee]

Brentford xG 0.46
Nottingham Forest xG 0.85
Brentford shots 7
Nottingham Forest shots 15
Brentford shots on target 1
Nottingham Forest shots on target 1

The Justice score wouldn’t be Brentford 2-0 Nottingham Forest. Very glad to be out performing our Justice position and hope this is the season randomness in a small sample size of 38 games leads to us play Barcelona away in Q4 2027.

That header from Yates must have been the reason the xg was high. That was such a simple chance

 

[tinman]

That's the worst performance since we've been in the Prem?

You obviously didn’t see us play Fulham last season.

 

[David Brentford]

The Remembrance silence was observed immaculately by both sets of fans (aside from noises coming up from the concourse, where maybe they weren’t aware it was happening, it still being October), and the bugler did a fine job, playing the most poignant last note with exceptional delicacy.

I thought that too. Wonderful stuff

 

[upnorthbee]

There's a reason I tend to not read the earlier posts before I leave my thoughts, another reminder today to not bother.

I read a couple of comments saying "Forest are awful, a poor Forest team etc".... "Another awful perfromance by Thiago"

First off Forest are not poor and were not awful. I can't stand that club, Ryan Yates, Nico Williams's teeth, the fat slug or their fans but if you took that away from the game then you're a bit thick.

Any win against Forest will be like this, but I think we need to be better.

We heavily rode our luck in this one, yes Keith set us up to be hard to break down and we were playing on the counter for large parts of the game.... but Forest had multiple crosses into the box (which we defended well tbf), 2 guilt edge chances from a VDB mistake for Mcatee in the first half and Ryan Yates should have scored a header in the second and I think Thiago headed the ball off the line too.

Thiago had a mixed game, he had no support whatsoever from the ref and their thug of a CB surely should have been off at some point for a second yellow, he gave the ball away a few times but also defended brilliantly and won us a few free kicks. He also scored a goal which is what he's there for, 2 in 2 games now, give the guy some credit.

I thought Schade had them on toast on 3 occasions, but decided to go down instead of trusting his pace (which would have put him through on goal 3 times) and just getting the player booked. Is this coached? a lack of confidence? I feel he could have kept going on 2 out of 3 of them .

Outtara was excellent first half, as was Anthony when he came on.

VDB looked very very rusty which is fair enough, but grew into the game and looked superb at the end. Ajer was as solid as ever. KLP for me is one of our best players now, and we're better with him on the pitch in any position.

I thought Jensen and Sangare looked off it unfortunately, but Jensen nearly scored a wonderful free kick. Sangare looks to need a season to get used to this league, i'm more than happy to give him that!

The ref wasn't particularly consistent but I don't think he influenced the result today.

Finally, Keith has taken a little bit of stick off idiots over the past week. His subs got us over the line in this one, and although not the pretiest we're winning without playing all that well at the moment. That's a very good thing, there's a lot more to come from this team.

All in all, I think we were fortunate with our two defelced goals and on another day we don't win that game, but we did and i'm so pleased it was against Forest.

Forest unfortunately will not go down, they're a good team and as soon as they get a bit of luck I think they'll rise up the league.

There's no easy win at this level, so we take this all day long.

 

[upnorthbee]

I have not been a fan for long, seen maybe 50 home games as a Member over the last 5 or 6 years,

But that was perhaps the worst performance I’ve seen from the Bees - apart from a couple of gorgeous passes which created the goals.

The comments that ‘we controlled the game’ display rose-tinted perception, I feel. xG was 0.46 against 0.85 for Forest. Our possession (at home to a bottom 3 team) was 42%. We won only 36.8% of tackles! And only 34 ‘successful final third passes’ against 97 by Forest.

My main frustration watching was we were giving the ball away FAR too easily – borne out by another damning stat, only 71% successful pass completion today, the lowest in the Premiership except for 10-man Palace. Our average at home has been 78% before today, and interestingly away games average is almost the same, even with one outlier, Bournemouth which was only 70%.

So it feels like something was off today. I really don’t think it looked like ‘managing the game’.

Delighted for Igor of course and I felt we defended well, didn’t give away too many silly fouls, etc. But I would be amazed if Keith Andrews was sitting there tonight saying to himself, “we had it all under control”. If Forest had any clue how to actually put the ball in the net we might have been in trouble.

I dont think anyone with any common sense thought we controlled the game until we got the 2nd. I also appreciate you highlighting that you're a new fan before your comments, because otherwise you may have gotten destroyed for this post. Funnily enough, I agree with a lot of it though.

KA will know that it's extremely fine margins in this league and we got the luck today, could we have done any better? Or are Forest just a lot better than people are giving them credit for? Probably a mixture of both.

 

[BFC1997]

There's a reason I tend to not read the earlier posts before I leave my thoughts, another reminder today to not bother.

I read a couple of comments saying "Forest are awful, a poor Forest team etc".... "Another awful perfromance by Thiago"

First off Forest are not poor and were not awful. I can't stand that club, Ryan Yates, Nico Williams's teeth, the fat slug or their fans but if you took that away from the game then you're a bit thick.

Any win against Forest will be like this, but I think we need to be better.

We heavily rode our luck in this one, yes Keith set us up to be hard to break down and we were playing on the counter for large parts of the game.... but Forest had multiple crosses into the box (which we defended well tbf), 2 guilt edge chances from a VDB mistake for Mcatee in the first half and Ryan Yates should have scored a header in the second and I think Thiago headed the ball off the line too.

Thiago had a mixed game, he had no support whatsoever from the ref and their thug of a CB surely should have been off at some point for a second yellow, he gave the ball away a few times but also defended brilliantly and won us a few free kicks. He also scored a goal which is what he's there for, 2 in 2 games now, give the guy some credit.

I thought Schade had them on toast on 3 occasions, but decided to go down instead of trusting his pace (which would have put him through on goal 3 times) and just getting the player booked. Is this coached? a lack of confidence? I feel he could have kept going on 2 out of 3 of them .

Outtara was excellent first half, as was Anthony when he came on.

VDB looked very very rusty which is fair enough, but grew into the game and looked superb at the end. Ajer was as solid as ever. KLP for me is one of our best players now, and we're better with him on the pitch in any position.

I thought Jensen and Sangare looked off it unfortunately, but Jensen nearly scored a wonderful free kick. Sangare looks to need a season to get used to this league, i'm more than happy to give him that!

The ref wasn't particularly consistent but I don't think he influenced the result today.

Finally, Keith has taken a little bit of stick off idiots over the past week. His subs got us over the line in this one, and although not the pretiest we're winning without playing all that well at the moment. That's a very good thing, there's a lot more to come from this team.

All in all, I think we were fortunate with our two defelced goals and on another day we don't win that game, but we did and i'm so pleased it was against Forest.

Forest unfortunately will not go down, they're a good team and as soon as they get a bit of luck I think they'll rise up the league.

There's no easy win at this level, so we take this all day long.

Some weird takes in this!

 

[upnorthbee]

Some weird takes in this!

Name them then maybe? How I saw it.

 

[North London Bee]

This was a hard fought win against a tough team of spoilers. It was never going to be a free flowing game of open end to end football. It was a battle and we won it and the war too.

We were organised, shut them down and frustrated them and did just enough to win.

Yiu have to fight fire with fire against Forest and we did.

 

[ianbee]

I feel sometimes the stats dont reflect the game. Apart from the free header I didnt think 'Notts Forest" looked like scoring. Their shots never troubled our keeper, only our fans behind the goal. How different would the game and stats have been, if they didnt commit the many 'professional' fouls when we were on the break? Good win in a game that was always going to be tough. Happy Bees fan this evening

 

[Les Beeavinu]

Name them then maybe? How I saw it.

Sangare. He won so many balls first half.

 

[upnorthbee]

Sangare. He won so many balls first half.

Fair call. I still think there's more to come from him (not a bad thing).

 

[Les Beeavinu]

Fair call. I still think there's more to come from him (not a bad thing).

I agree but honestly, he won everything that half.

 

[A Real Mysteron]

In summary;

Mostly unconvincing.
But 3 points.
Forest could still be playing now, and wouldn’t have scored.

 

[TadB]

There's a reason I tend to not read the earlier posts before I leave my thoughts, another reminder today to not bother.

I read a couple of comments saying "Forest are awful, a poor Forest team etc".... "Another awful perfromance by Thiago"

First off Forest are not poor and were not awful. I can't stand that club, Ryan Yates, Nico Williams's teeth, the fat slug or their fans but if you took that away from the game then you're a bit thick.

Any win against Forest will be like this, but I think we need to be better.

We heavily rode our luck in this one, yes Keith set us up to be hard to break down and we were playing on the counter for large parts of the game.... but Forest had multiple crosses into the box (which we defended well tbf), 2 guilt edge chances from a VDB mistake for Mcatee in the first half and Ryan Yates should have scored a header in the second and I think Thiago headed the ball off the line too.

Thiago had a mixed game, he had no support whatsoever from the ref and their thug of a CB surely should have been off at some point for a second yellow, he gave the ball away a few times but also defended brilliantly and won us a few free kicks. He also scored a goal which is what he's there for, 2 in 2 games now, give the guy some credit.

I thought Schade had them on toast on 3 occasions, but decided to go down instead of trusting his pace (which would have put him through on goal 3 times) and just getting the player booked. Is this coached? a lack of confidence? I feel he could have kept going on 2 out of 3 of them .

Outtara was excellent first half, as was Anthony when he came on.

VDB looked very very rusty which is fair enough, but grew into the game and looked superb at the end. Ajer was as solid as ever. KLP for me is one of our best players now, and we're better with him on the pitch in any position.

I thought Jensen and Sangare looked off it unfortunately, but Jensen nearly scored a wonderful free kick. Sangare looks to need a season to get used to this league, i'm more than happy to give him that!

The ref wasn't particularly consistent but I don't think he influenced the result today.

Finally, Keith has taken a little bit of stick off idiots over the past week. His subs got us over the line in this one, and although not the pretiest we're winning without playing all that well at the moment. That's a very good thing, there's a lot more to come from this team.

All in all, I think we were fortunate with our two defelced goals and on another day we don't win that game, but we did and i'm so pleased it was against Forest.

Forest unfortunately will not go down, they're a good team and as soon as they get a bit of luck I think they'll rise up the league.

There's no easy win at this level, so we take this all day long.

Not sure I entirely agree with everything, however, you write a lot of common sense in that post, and a pretty fair account taken as a whole.

 

[aawharris]

One other thing that has been overlooked.
Anthonys first touch on the ball from Hickey for our second - took it TOWARDS goal, meaning he was in the box and could hit the ball on the deck to Thiago.
A lot of lesser players would have carried straight on and been forced to chip a cross in the air or take another touch.
It was perfect.

 

[upnorthbee]

One other thing that has been overlooked.
Anthonys first touch on the ball from Hickey for our second - took it TOWARDS goal, meaning he was in the box and could hit the ball on the deck to Thiago.
A lot of lesser players would have carried straight on and been forced to chip a cross in the air or take another touch.
It was perfect.

Great observation, he's such a good sub isn't he.

 

[Les Beeavinu]

One other thing that has been overlooked.
Anthonys first touch on the ball from Hickey for our second - took it TOWARDS goal, meaning he was in the box and could hit the ball on the deck to Thiago.
A lot of lesser players would have carried straight on and been forced to chip a cross in the air or take another touch.
It was perfect.

Very tidy player Jaidon Anthony. Makes good decisions.

 

[Jago16]

Great observation, he's such a good sub isn't he.

I think he should be starting games. Class player with a great physical presence

 

[Les Beeavinu]

I think he should be starting games. Class player with a great physical presence

I actually think he's best for the last half hour of games rather than a starter. Very dangerous when the game has opened up whereas Outarra has the tricks to beat a man when the game is tight. Put it this way - Anthony possibly doesn't create the first goal and Dango doesn't the second.

 

[LostBee]

First off Forest are not poor and were not awful.

Agreed.

They were dogshit

 

[upnorthbee]

Agreed.

They were dogshit

They weren't tho, were they.

Cant be arsed defending Forest any further as I feel my soul leaving my body every time I do, but objectively they weren't that bad.

 

[LostBee]

They weren't tho, were they.

Cant be arsed defending Forest any further as I feel my soul leaving my body every time I do, but objectively they weren't that bad.

Fair enough, we all see things differently.

 

[Banana]

Errrrrrrrrrrrr?

 

[Windmill Rd Bee]

Justice table has Forest 3rd. I didn’t see it.

I thought their press in the second half until Igor’s goal was quite impressive, and we lost the midfield battle for a while. But I was just never worried when the ball entered the final third. They’ve got the cutting edge of a blancmange.

 

[IslandBee]

We were lucky to win according to expected goals, which I sort of see based on the period from 5-25 minutes.

However, once we scored Forest really did not show very much other than a brief flurry in the first ten minutes of the second half.

We weren't brilliant and didn't make that many clear cut chances but maybe this is one of those occasions where xG is misleading

 

[Idaho Bee]

That's the worst performance since we've been in the Prem?

It's the worst performance in the prem since Hull away.

 

[Jay Bee]

I have not been a fan for long, seen maybe 50 home games as a Member over the last 5 or 6 years,

But that was perhaps the worst performance I’ve seen from the Bees - apart from a couple of gorgeous passes which created the goals.

The comments that ‘we controlled the game’ display rose-tinted perception, I feel. xG was 0.46 against 0.85 for Forest. Our possession (at home to a bottom 3 team) was 42%. We won only 36.8% of tackles! And only 34 ‘successful final third passes’ against 97 by Forest.

My main frustration watching was we were giving the ball away FAR too easily – borne out by another damning stat, only 71% successful pass completion today, the lowest in the Premiership except for 10-man Palace. Our average at home has been 78% before today, and interestingly away games average is almost the same, even with one outlier, Bournemouth which was only 70%.

So it feels like something was off today. I really don’t think it looked like ‘managing the game’.

Delighted for Igor of course and I felt we defended well, didn’t give away too many silly fouls, etc. But I would be amazed if Keith Andrews was sitting there tonight saying to himself, “we had it all under control”. If Forest had any clue how to actually put the ball in the net we might have been in trouble.

It's honest of you to put your credentials on the table - but I'm astonished of you think a 2-0 win could be the worst performance you've seen.

Passing could have been better but as some of us have pointed out we were up against tough battling opponents. xG is not a measure of control... And it's very common for a team that's behind to accumulate more xG (I haven't checked back when the most dangerous shots were)

Even just thinking of home games, where we rarely get a real kicking, defeats to Everton and Wolves in 23/24 were miles worse. Even the Palace 2-2 in May was a much more frustrating performance and game, surely.

 

[mhead bee]

I have not been a fan for long, seen maybe 50 home games as a Member over the last 5 or 6 years,

But that was perhaps the worst performance I’ve seen from the Bees - apart from a couple of gorgeous passes which created the goals.

The comments that ‘we controlled the game’ display rose-tinted perception, I feel. xG was 0.46 against 0.85 for Forest. Our possession (at home to a bottom 3 team) was 42%. We won only 36.8% of tackles! And only 34 ‘successful final third passes’ against 97 by Forest.

My main frustration watching was we were giving the ball away FAR too easily – borne out by another damning stat, only 71% successful pass completion today, the lowest in the Premiership except for 10-man Palace. Our average at home has been 78% before today, and interestingly away games average is almost the same, even with one outlier, Bournemouth which was only 70%.

So it feels like something was off today. I really don’t think it looked like ‘managing the game’.

Delighted for Igor of course and I felt we defended well, didn’t give away too many silly fouls, etc. But I would be amazed if Keith Andrews was sitting there tonight saying to himself, “we had it all under control”. If Forest had any clue how to actually put the ball in the net we might have been in trouble.

It wasn’t a bad performance, sometimes you have to accept that the opposition are pretty good

3 at the back, wingbacks and 4 in midfield meant they swamped us, we had no room to move or pass and it led to 3-4 awful passes. But other than the 3-4 we gave to them, we didn’t do that much wrong

Forest win the midfield but are utterly toothless up top, we conceded the midfield and relied on our extra firepower and it worked a treat.

 

[Banana]

Whoscored give the MotM to Igor...

 

[Balders Bee]

Hard yards and a hard watch at times but it was a much needed 3 points against a struggling but rugged & occasionally dangerous Notts Forest team. To be honest we laboured in the first half as Williams overlapped effectively down their left & pantomime villain Gibbs-White probed & pushed. I thought Jensen & Sangare worked hard defensively but couldn't get us going forward with Janelt working hard to plug the gaps. Every time Thiago challenged for a ball up top the ref blew up for some imaginary foul. Schade & Outarra flickered intermittently causing issues from wide positions and from one such driving run the latter managed to centre & induce Milenjovic into hooking it past a bemused Sels.
Forest continued to press but look toothless with Ajer & VDB looking increasingly dominant as Delap looked increasingly like a huge waste of money.
Second half was another tense affair with Schade's pace bringing a couple of yellows for a Forest defence struggling with him. KA consulted the Oracle & fairplay to him Anthony, Hickey & Damsgaard brought us a little more control over proceedings and an excellent move involving Janelt, Hickey & Anyhony resulted in the latter squaring and the ever willing Thiago getting his reward with an effort that looped off the defender and high into the net - game over and we saw it out.
Not one to live in the memory but we worked hard, defended like Trojans and enjoyed a little luck (for once) to earn our third win of the season. Very satisfying...

 

[upnorthbee]

It wasn’t a bad performance, sometimes you have to accept that the opposition are pretty good

3 at the back, wingbacks and 4 in midfield meant they swamped us, we had no room to move or pass and it led to 3-4 awful passes. But other than the 3-4 we gave to them, we didn’t do that much wrong

Forest win the midfield but are utterly toothless up top, we conceded the midfield and relied on our extra firepower and it worked a treat.

Spot on. Playing that formation often creates major issues for us (and others). I kept thinking in my head that Delap's a proper donkey but felt if I said it out loud he'd probably fkin score

 

[Lionel Bart-At]

I have not been a fan for long, seen maybe 50 home games as a Member over the last 5 or 6 years,

But that was perhaps the worst performance I’ve seen from the Bees - apart from a couple of gorgeous passes which created the goals.

The comments that ‘we controlled the game’ display rose-tinted perception, I feel. xG was 0.46 against 0.85 for Forest. Our possession (at home to a bottom 3 team) was 42%. We won only 36.8% of tackles! And only 34 ‘successful final third passes’ against 97 by Forest.

My main frustration watching was we were giving the ball away FAR too easily – borne out by another damning stat, only 71% successful pass completion today, the lowest in the Premiership except for 10-man Palace. Our average at home has been 78% before today, and interestingly away games average is almost the same, even with one outlier, Bournemouth which was only 70%.

So it feels like something was off today. I really don’t think it looked like ‘managing the game’.

Delighted for Igor of course and I felt we defended well, didn’t give away too many silly fouls, etc. But I would be amazed if Keith Andrews was sitting there tonight saying to himself, “we had it all under control”. If Forest had any clue how to actually put the ball in the net we might have been in trouble.

My apologies, gpete. I suffered a coughing fit at “premiership” and was unable to proceed any further.

 

[Gazza Bee]

It wasn't pretty but we ground out a win which is important in this league. Similar game to last season where we didn't create too much but this time we got a bit of luck for the first goal and a great team move for the 2nd to beat a very average Forest side.

Glad Thiago got his goal - he puts in a shift every time and gets no protection from the officials at all, hope he can now go on a run. Still 6th without playing particularly well since Leeds but we are getting into the good habit of picking up points rather than getting turned over - think that is 4 losses in 22 now since last season which for any side bar the top 2 is excellent.

 

[TorbayBee]

The Remembrance silence was observed immaculately by both sets of fans (aside from noises coming up from the concourse, where maybe they weren’t aware it was happening, it still being October), and the bugler did a fine job, playing the most poignant last note with exceptional delicacy.

Loved the ball boys keeping their heads bowed throughout, nice touch by the club to ensure it happened.

 

[Brentford Bob]

This was a hard fought win against a tough team of spoilers. It was never going to be a free flowing game of open end to end football. It was a battle and we won it and the war too.

We were organised, shut them down and frustrated them and did just enough to win.

Yiu have to fight fire with fire against Forest and we did.

Perfect summary of the game.

They are a hideous team to play against - yet we’re the ‘physical’ side according to the pundits.