Not much to say that hasn't already been said but anyway:
First half was alright, we were comfortably the better team but our final ball was lacking. Not sure how much the conditions were disrupting things but the ball was noticeably slowing in areas of the pitch so I imagine dribbling and slick passing was harder than usual. In terms of chances, well Carroll outright refused his, from 10 yards I don't care if it's on his wrong foot just hit the fucking thing. Lovenkrands had one of those nights where nothing went right for him, and Carroll was wrestling with their centre half for the majority, so all in all chances were few and far between. Forest meanwhile showed no ambition and were looking to keep us at 0 and worry about nicking a goal later. Having said that, Blackstock had a great chance to make it 1-0 but he fluffed his lines completely.
Second half Forest showed some ambition which gave us more chance to use the pace of Routledge, but for some reason (probably the conditions as mentioned above) he kept cutting back inside where he does a lot of good work anyway. The goal was a bit fortunate in that Forest cleared it off their own man and Nolan played a simple ball to Shola who did all the hard work and on his left picked out the corner, good lad. Forest decided to bring plan B into operation and threw on Earnshaw, who despite scoring goals at this level forever was deemed benchworthy. A couple of half chances for us, Nolan on his left saved and Routledge - who is either deceptively strong or Forest are as weak as piss - with a decent effort straight at Camp. The second goal was brilliant, short corner to Jonas who looked like he was going to keep it in the corner, 4 Forest lads trotted over to try and get it back and 2 passes later they were all out the game and Enrique was beneath everyone. Job done and barring some sort of disaster, we'll be promoted over one of the Easter games. Hopefully we'll go on and take the title, WBA will probably push us all the way but we've got nothing to fear from our remaining games.
Alan Wiley is a really fussy wanker A particularly good example is a free kick he had taken 3 times because it wasn't taken from the exact spot about half way inside our own half, by us. Once we're back in the big time it'll be a shame to have our weekends ruined by egotistical fucknuts again.
Harper - Nout to do, couple of routine saves. Good starting positions tonight as well, a few times in the first half he was out like a shot.
Simpson - Didn't fancy attacking much, didn't do much massively wrong
Enrique - Legend. Glad he got his goal, let's hope he keeps this up
Williamson - Fantastic, contender for man of the match IMO. Lost nothing in the air and dominated our box
Coloccini - Solid again from our most improved player.
Routledge - Good in spells, been better, will be worse no doubt.
Jonas - Didn't have the beating of their fullback as much as he has in previous matches but always an outlet.
Nolan - Better than his usual shite but not great by any means, when he was last on the pile on I assumed Jose was dead
Guthrie - Drove us forward quite a bit first half but final ball was lacking. Corners were shite.
Lovenkrands - Not his night, but a willing runner.
Carroll - SHOOT MAN
Shola - Good finish, good assist, even worked hard after he'd scored. What annoys me is how long it takes him to get back onside after he's bothered to close down the keeper, then it comes back and he doesn't challenge and people go mental at him.
Hughton - Picked the best team we have available to us, and we play better football than we did 4 months ago. Keep it up.
