Key occasions
54 minutes. Alarm bells within the reverse penalty field now and it’s Collins’ flip to dilly-dally on the ball underneath strain. ‘C’mon you Reds!’ chant the house devoted, their shouts changing into a bit of extra strained now. Hudson-Odoi’s cross evades everybody to cue extra groans.
52 minutes. Goodness me, Matt Turner – what have you ever practically performed! He was asleep on the ball, taking far too lengthy to weigh up his choices, and Wissa stormed in, gained the ball however didn’t get sufficient of a contact … Boly whacks it to security. The fashionable day sweeper keeper in a nutshell.
Brentford’s nook drops to Lewis-Potter who thwacks it miles over the crossbar.
51 minutes. A brilliant reverse move from Jensen threatens to open the door for Brentford. They’re probing and probing now.
48 minutes. You sensed simply earlier than the break that Brentford had been lastly getting a deal with on this and that double likelihood may have imbued them with confidence. Either side have flown out of the second half blocks.
46 minutes. A forensic half-time evaluation by the Sky Sports activities guys confirmed that handball shout (which was towards Nicolás Domínguez, not Boly, my dangerous) was a really first rate shout certainly. His arm was not in a pure place, in any respect.
SECOND HALF
Peeeeeeeeeep!
It ought to be the obligation of either side, after they’re the one ones in motion on a Premier League Sunday, to supply some leisure. (Sure, I admire it doesn’t work like that, this was all the time going to be a decent recreation). Let’s hope for higher after the interval. The perimeters are about to re-emerge.
Warning certainly.
6 – There have been simply six shot makes an attempt within the first half of Nottingham Forest v Brentford (0 objectives), with no Premier League recreation having fewer within the opening half to this point this season. Warning. pic.twitter.com/iPRjC44I7h
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) October 1, 2023
HALF TIME
An enormous double likelihood for Brentford to finish the half! Turner is pressured into a good cease after Vitaly Janelt’s shot takes a deflection and nearly flies in on the close to publish … then it gained’t fairly drop for Yoane Wissa to prod house from shut vary. The ensuing nook is scrambled away and Forest get to half-time goalless – that was by far the Bees’ greatest second of the match.
There was a late penalty verify for handball towards Willy Boly, in the course of all that, which is ultimately dismissed by VAR.
Nottingham Forest 0-0 Brentford on the break.
Simply the 2 added minutes on the finish of the half.
Murillo took a knock in that final passage of play and is hobbling round a bit.
43 minutes. A uncommon error on the ball from Elanga lets Brentford off the hook once more. The previous Manchester United winger has been arguably probably the most spectacular participant on the pitch. It’s on the opposite wing, nonetheless, the place Nottingham Forest win a free-kick after Ajer’s slide on Hudson-Odoi.
41 minutes. Does that rely as a shot on course? A really tame Ethan Pinnock header dribbles onto the ground and is picked up by Turner. Doubtful.
There’s nothing on the different finish, both, for all Hudson-Odoi’s efforts in busting a intestine to achieve the byline and in the reduction of. Brentford clear.
The stats flash up on the display and present … zero pictures on course. Yep, that almost sums up this recreation to this point.
38 minutes. Lewis-Potter has been brilliant, displaying some nimble ft on the ball and decisive motion off it, profitable a nook for his facet. Forest are dominating lots of the aerial duels – and accomplish that once more to clear that cross.
36 minutes. I’m liking the look of Ibrahim Sangaré. Some larger golf equipment than Forest had been eager on his providers earlier than he made the transfer from PSV Eindhoven. He’s making the hosts tick as we speak.
34 minutes. It’d be traditional Barclays if Hudson-Odoi did one thing actually foolish now … as a substitute he picks up the ball and drives dangerously at Ajer, who ultimately will get in deal with.
Kári Tulinius agrees with me about Hudson-Odoi:
I agree with you that Forest should’ve been pinching themselves after they bought Hudson-Odoi for therefore little. However I’m not shocked that nobody else went after him, as he didn’t carry out effectively in any respect for Leverkusen and seemed a shadow of his former self. That he’s hit the Metropolis Floor working is testomony to his psychological fortitude.
32 minutes. One other Mbeumo misstep. A rotten nook that Ajer tries to salvage with a flick in the direction of the close to publish which, to place it kindly, doesn’t come off. Cheers from the house followers.
31 minutes. Murillo nods it over his personal crossbar after Mbeumo’s whipped supply. Nook.
30 minutes. Higher play in possession from Brentford, passing with extra certainty and tempo … however it’s been a foul half for Bryan Mbeumo. He’s been actually sloppy.
Moussa Niakhate goes within the ebook for a poor deal with on Mathias Jensen. It was late however nothing extra – though it means free-kick alternative for the guests. They like set-pieces.
27 minutes. That’s an errant contact from Aurier who was performed nearly in by an excellent diagonal to the precise wing. The ball dribbles away from him and out of play.
25 minutes. Completely-timed from Murillo within the deal with to disclaim Lewis-Potter a sniff of objectives. Simply nicked it away from his ft for a nook – which involves little or nothing.
24 minutes. Frantic note-taking and arm-waving from Thomas Frank on the sideline. He appears unimpressed.
23 minutes. Lewis-Potter wished a foul after Serge Aurier went in with typical hubris there. Nothing doing, says Paul Tierney, as Forest flood ahead and work it properly to Elanga who simply pushes his shot huge to the precise. Half an opportunity, that.
21 minutes. Niakhaté snaps right into a neat deal with on Mbeumo; then Mangala bravely will get in the way in which of a move infield, earlier than Sangaré dances away from a few challenges to get his workforce ahead. Wholehearted stuff from the house facet.
19 minutes. That’s a 3rd or perhaps fourth contact of the match for Mbeumo on my rely, cleansing up after a reasonably aimless crossfield change from Keane Lewis-Potter. Mbeumo is then the goal for an aimless Kristoffer Ajer move. A bit ragged from the Bees.
16 minutes. Murillo has been enjoying at left-sided centre again fairly than out huge, with Moussa Niakhate over at left-back. The Brazilian has exhibited some good touches and crisp passing on his Premier League debut to this point.
Elanga continues to drive down the precise with some success, pinning Hickey again.
14 minutes. Flekken comes out to tidy up a looking Willy Boly ball that was aimed within the path Awoniyi. However Brentford are struggling to maintain the ball as soon as they’ve gained it again.
Callum Hudson-Odoi value Forest £3m in the summertime. Why is no one dubbing that the deal of the century?
11 minutes. Forest are direct and so they’re highly effective and so they’re trying much more harmful now. Elanga and Awoniyi are dovetailing properly, inflicting few complications for Brentford’s again line previously couple of minutes. Ibrahim Sangaré appears a really stable addition to the midfield and he’s protecting issues ticking in these deeper areas, earlier than unleashing the diagonals.
It’s offside. Taiwo Awoniyi ghosted in following a knock-down from the nook, however he was half-yard offside. No gremlins within the VAR system on this event.
8 minutes. Aim? Awonyi has the ball within the web right here and the flag initially went up … please get the traces up and take your time, lads.
7 minutes. The ‘sizing up’ course of continues to be very a lot ongoing on this match, with little high quality on show in these early phases. Nørgaard’s poor cross is straight into the grateful arms of Matt Turner, whereas Forest play it lengthy and Elanga, after a lung-busting run, wins a nook.
4 minutes. It appears decidely like a again three from Brentford, with Ajer dropping in alongside Ethan Pinnock and Nathan Collins, with Hickey pushed up down the left. Pinnock and Mark Flekken play their approach out of bother as Forest come sizzling and heavy with the press.
2 minutes. Anthony Elanga has pressured Aaron Hickey right into a yellow card-conceding problem already because the pair contest a excessive ball. The Scot can not consider it, however he was holding Elanga. Free-kick for Forest in a good spot.
KICK OFF!
Brentford emerge in a gray and peppermint away quantity, Forest are of their common crimson and white. A minute’s silence for Maddy Cusack, then a rendition of Mull of Kintyre. And we’re off.
Jeremy Boyce has emailed in his prediction simply in time for kick-off:
I’m ‘betting’ on a Forest win merely Beecause Brentford appear completely out of types on the mo, whereas Stevie’s boys all the time appear to search out one thing. Wager you I win the wager ! Double or quits if not…
Proper, we’re nearly prepared for this one to get rocking. The place’s your cash? I’m saying objectives, objectives and objectives (I realise that’s a cop-out of a prediction).
Hmmm…
“He hasn’t been dropped”
Steve Cooper explains why Morgan Gibbs-White is not beginning for Forest towards Brentford 🔊 pic.twitter.com/nqv4h5EO1L
— Sky Sports activities Premier League (@SkySportsPL) October 1, 2023
The xG boys actually like Brentford; there’s a way they’ve underperformed this season – and so they definitely did final week in dropping 3-1 at house to Everton. Their solitary league victory this season got here in a 3-0 gimme at 10-man Fulham on the second weekend, whereas September introduced only a single level. Enjoying away does appear to go well with them, however the Metropolis floor will likely be fervent and bang up for this, as all the time.
The PGMOL as soon as once more finds itself in a multitude amid yesterday’s VAR controversy at Tottenham. One in every of as we speak’s officers has been taken off obligation after his mistake.
Darren England, VAR on the Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool fixture, and Dan Cook dinner, AVAR on the identical recreation, have been changed for the Nottingham Forest v Brentford and Fulham v Chelsea matches as we speak and tomorrow evening.
— paul joyce (@_pauljoyce) October 1, 2023
Don’t overlook the Ladies’s Tremendous League will get underneath approach as we speak and you’ll observe the motion right here:
You could possibly interpret both formation as 4-2-3-1, or 4-3-3, relying in your viewpoint – what’s clear is each managers are set as much as assault. There’s an terrible lot of tempo and talent in that Forest frontline. I’m trying ahead to seeing Anthony Elanga and Callum Hudson-Odoi specifically. It’s an attention-grabbing name to go away Morgan Gibbs-White, thoughts you. Brazilian left-back Murillo is making his debut.
Brentford supervisor Thomas Frank has inspired Keane Lewis-Potter, 22 and previously of Hull, to step up and grasp the chance he’s been handed by the absence of Kevin Schade. He performs off the left as we speak, with Bryan Mbeumo on the precise.
Workforce information
Nottingham Forest: Turner, Aurier, Boly, Niakhaté, Murillo, Domínguez, Sangaré, Mangala, Hudson-Odoi, Elanga, Awonyi
Subs: Odysseas, Worrall, Kouyaté, Santos, Gibbs-White, Wooden, Toffolo, Origi, Montiel.
Brentford: Flekken, Ajer, Collins, Pinnock, Hickey, Nørgaard, Jensen, Janelt, Lewis-Potter, Mbeumo, Wissa
Subs: Strakosha, Zanka, Onyeka, Roerslev, Yamoliuk, Brierley, Ghoddos, Maupay, Olakigbe.
Preamble
Good afternoon people! There’s not precisely a feast of Premier League soccer to sate us this Sunday afternoon, however this recreation between Nottingham Forest and Brentford has loads of intrigue surrounding it, for positive, with one level separating the groups within the desk. Neither facet have begun the season in gorgeous vogue, but neither will likely be entertaining ideas of a relegation battle this season – and therefore it is a recreation each will fancy profitable.
Brentford have a lot of harm points to go along with the long-term absence of Ivan Toney, whereas Forest are going to evaluate Arsenal loanee Nuno Tavares, who’s a doubt. We’ll run you thru the teamsheets – that are simply dropping proper about now – within the subsequent publish. Do keep tuned.
