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I understand it in controlled measure. But he's dialled it so far back we don't know how to up the ante anymore. The first sign was the first leg against psg really. We were wholly incapable of matching their intensity. We might have lost for different reasons under Klopp but we sure as hell would not have failed to match the intensity.

I don't get it. How do we go from the fittest team in the league to this. Did Arne figure "I think the way forward in this league is to do less than the opposition." It's also that. But that's not the main thing.

We won the first four league games with get out of jail free cards, accumulated with luck and the confidence of champions. Then we beat Everton as one does. Ever since then we've been dreadful. Turn those 4 wins into draws and we'd be in relegation zone. OK maybe we deserved some of those wins. Let's say our form merited 4 points less. f*** it. The point is that we've been s*** the whole season.

I do think he could turn this around, even if I am presently struggling to see how. But he could have no complaints if he were sacked tonight. It's not just another loss. It's 3-0 at Anfield to a relegation candidate. Fully deserved win. We had no response once we went behind. I don't think we're at the "sack him now" stage just yet, but we are at the stage where the bigwigs need to be sounding out short and long term candidates, so that we can pull the trigger at moments notice.

So much wrong with the selection today. Konate should not be starting. Isak likewise. Ekitike should be starting. Him having his rhythm interrupted by being benched lately has damaged us. Moving our best player from the 10 position to right back in these circumstances is asking for problems. It's just moronic that he won't play Gomez. We needed him at right back and centerback today and he got no minutes. Kerkez. Nuff said. And the subs. Ffs. And that's just the selection. The tactics, the quality of our play, the mentality. Really struggling for anything where I can say "at least slot is doing this right".

Sigh....

Us right now

Forest are not done scoring here

Been OK, then conceded because the opposition found a moment better than OK. Haven't raised our level since going behind, generally just second best in duels. Konate off his t***. Then opposition found another moment better ok. We're not ok.

Well done

Slot's selection must take a good portion of the blame. Konate and Isak should not be starting. It's slot going with the plan in his head rather than what the reality on the pitch tells him. The rest is on the quality of the training and tactical prep. And the mentality instilled.

Konate will cost us another goal before this game is over.

I thought exactly that. He has so many actions giving it away needlessly. A massive liability these days who belongs on the bench.

There is no selection on merit when Konate keeps getting starts. I miss Firmino. The difference he would make out there is massive.

Honestly my thought all along when I see comments on him has been "guess I missed some games he played" because I've seen so little. Then I went and checked and he's barely had to launder his shirt yet.

I don't know how people are making any sort of verdict on frimpong. He's played 313 minutes for us, fairly evenly spread across three competitions. We have no idea how he fits so far.

This is the kind of wishful thinking I don't think we can afford given the state of our midfield out of possession.

Alright, Einstein.

That second assist is the kind you need to watch a couple of times to understand how he did it.

Think you can see in how he strikes the ball, and the variety in it, that his confidence on the ball has gone up for him as well. Been weird to me how long his passing has been unexceptional given the technical ability he arrived with.

Pires had pace enough to make recovery difficult for defenders once he went past them.

Of all the things that never happened, this probably happened the least.

Jürgen definitely had his preferred xi at any given time and you weren't in doubt about that. All the same, you could see he trusted nearly all his players to do a job when called upon.

Let's not use Gomez in case we end up not being able to use him.