Do you think we'll see a reaction against Forest?

[Zezti]

Depends if we start with two dinosaurs down the right again. Any team will cut through that.

 

[ETID]

What Would Big Sam Do?

Steal Sean’s gravy

 

[Lowste]

Wolves will know the crowd will be on a knife edge. Contain us for 20mins or sneak a goal, and the atmosphere will change
Forest are just as nervous as us though

 

[AsiaAsia82]

5 at the back nailed on

 

[JJK]

Forest will score an early goal on the break and the bottom will fall out. Can all change if he’s sacked today though.

 

[ste d' indica]

Wolves will know the crowd will be on a knife edge. Contain us for 20mins or sneak a goal, and the atmosphere will change
Forest are just as nervous as us though

We're playing Wolves and Forest?? I've not bought into these conspiracy theories but that does seem a bit unfair like.

 

[Rita_Poon]

What Would Big Sam Do?

drink some bisto like a brew
that's what big fat sam'll do...

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

We won't see any kind of reaction from this gang of rats. They don't care. With the expectation of Coleman and Pickford the rest are just playing lip service and are collecting a cheque. They don't have the stomach for the fight and don't care enough to even pretend that they do.

 

[Tilling]

I think he's thought he could get at their defence/probably a reaction to being continually told by fans to play more expansive, attacking football.

He also didn't have Calvert-Lewin who can at least control a football to give us some chance of holding the ball up so he's overly committed/pushed the whole team forward.

We're in a sorry place. We need to defend deep but we don't have pace (Gray) or ball progression (Iwobi) to counter attack. It all means we become reliant on set pieces.

Spot on - I'd like to think it's not a reaction to the fans as I think he's got enough time as a manager (10+ years) to not let that get to him. Nevertheless, the coaching staff have swallowed the guff that this Chelsea team are in a bad way - they really, really aren't, and they've got a core of really technically gifted players. Hence why the press never stuck at all.

Bit of a tough one though now Forest - they aren't nearly as good on the ball as Chelsea are, but will the players have the confidence in the methods to try and press high, knowing Elanga and Hudson-Odoi are running in behind for Gibbs-White to pick out? Will he try and put 10 men behind the ball with DCL back in the team, knowing that Goodison will spit venom about it from 15 minutes in?

What was already a hard game now made much much harder by a game that, if it had been approached appropriately, would've been a bit of a free hit for the side.

 

[kiss the crest]

Absolutely not. If anything they will get worse and Dyche will stay the same, clueless and terrible.

Exactly, he will have Young on the wing, hoping his pace can get behind the forest defence

 

[ToffeeTim]

We'll see a reaction

Who knows if it's a positive reaction though. Could just as easily go in the other direction

 

[Drico]

We’ll see a capitulation and one of our “stars” getting himself sent-off because he hasn’t got the stomach for the fight.

 

[Rich1878]

Hopefully we will, but I've not got high hopes tbh.

 

[msb]

What Would Big Sam Do?

Arrange a brown envelope? Allegedly of course.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Urgh, we're a live game on Sky as well.