⚽ Match Thread vs. Bradford City 18.11.23 [EFL L2]

[Carlton_Pie]

Shows how sloppy we were with the ball 2nd half. Both their goals came from us giving the ball away.

Quality strike from Crowley and and Slocombe has to do better with the 2nd imo.

[the_anticlough]

Hopefully the Bros will resolve those issues come January. Whether we are ready for another promotion or not it would be a waste of our current position if we (they) didn't put the pedal to the metal.

Yes, we know there are 3 very good teams in this league - but one may slip
Then there's 2 legged semis against the likes of Crewe, Barrow, Accrington - we'd be in with a shout there

They'll know that the momentum we have this season is worth taking a punt on - the reward is definitely reachable for us.

[BJPIE]

24 goal attempts (according to BBC) from 32% possession for Bradford tells you we are extremely weak and lack any game management when we don't have the ball. The Bros don't have to address this but it's hard to see us getting promoted if they ignore it. That many chances from a poor team is something to reflect on despite 4 first half goals.

[countygump]

In other news, being a shipping magnate has it's advantages. Wonder if our ladz could fill the corners in with Lego?



Nottingham Forest has drawn up provisional plans to expand the capacity of its home stadium, the City Ground.

The plans would see the Premier League football club’s stadium capacity exceed 30,000 by erecting a temporary seating area that will be built on shipping containers and modelled on the Stadium 974 used in Qatar during the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Now in its second season in English football’s division, Forest’s owner Evangelos Marinakis is thought to be seeking ways to utilise increasing demand for tickets, with the club reportedly believing it could have sold up to 50,000 tickets to its high-profile Premier League games last season.

The Athletic has reported that an idea under consideration is to fill in the corners at the Trent End with a new structure based on one of Qatar’s World stadiums that was built on 974 recycled shipping containers.



https://www.sportindustry.biz/news-c...%20World%20Cup.

[BigFatPie]

24 goal attempts (according to BBC) from 32% possession for Bradford tells you we are extremely weak and lack any game management when we don't have the ball. The Bros don't have to address this but it's hard to see us getting promoted if they ignore it. That many chances from a poor team is something to reflect on despite 4 first half goals.

Yeah the xg from the data lads wil be interesting. We gave up good chances far too easily. The Andy Cook of last season would have got a hat trick.

[ladyretfordpie]

Intelligent or blinkered. Just because someone has different view to you, you suppose yourself to be more intelligent???? Arrogant in the extreme. Nemane was very very poor. However you are entitled to your opinion.

and you are extremely rude.Blinkered describes you quite accurately as well

[Woodsetts_Pie]

Nemane wasn’t “very very poor”. He did his job well. Excellent creativity for the first goal. It wasn’t him that balls’d up in the 2nd half, the whole back line did (collectively).

[Notts78]

I thought Bradford were dreadful and we really should have scored 6 or 7 against them. It’s like they’ve never seen us play before and how we set up to get behind teams. Even though they went went for it in the second half, McGoldrick missed a couple of chances to get a few more goals.

The difference between this league and the NL is that you can’t dial down the intensity when you think you’ve got the game won. At the moment we can be excellent for spells - often enough to win the game - but aren’t controlling games like last season. Obviously, it’s fantastic that we’re third, but you can see the shortcomings that are holding us back. Only we could turn a procession into a tense nail-biter.

Not sure how a team that at times tore us apart are dreadful. Defensively, like us, they were weak. We were more clinical. On another day todays game end 8-8.
I still think they (Bradford) will make the playoffs.
Today feels like Morecambe, where some undervalued what we did. A fee after Morecambe said it was 2 points dropped, Morecambe will be near the bottom etc… now they are 6 points behind us with 2 games in hand.
Some on here keep saying we need to do this and that or we won’t go up. The reality is we are 3rd. We keep picking up wins despite being this weak side.
Interesting that Sky said in commentary that Notts have a top 10 budget, Bradford a top 4. If that’s the case we are punching above our station.

[Notts78]

Nip on to the meltdown board that is red passion (Wrexham) - sound like the bullies found a team that was bigger and could bully them in Accy. Accy had some really really big players.
My favourite is Accy being described as a pub team. They have limitations but pub team they are not.

[Glad2BeAPie]

If we are to progress then we'll need a new back 4, if we can see it then our management team can see it, again and again they do all they can to help the opposition to score