After an interesting night at the City Ground, Mr_Dolf relates his weekend away, with NFFC 1 NUFC 2 sending NUFC riding high into the international break
Twenty four years after our past top flight visit to the City Ground we arrived in one of England’s great cities for a game against one of English football’s big clubs.
Following on from a pair of miserable / infuriating visits in the Championship, we had to deal with another evening kick off here, albeit one that only needs one day off work. The start was strong and United should maybe have had an early lead as Trippier sent Murphy away down the right and his excellent fast cross found Willock, who was maybe stretching a bit and put it wide when scoring looked easier. Five minutes later Trippier fooled everyone by sliding in a free kick along the ground which Isak latched onto. Renan Lodi deflected his shot goalwards but it bounced back off the crossbar.
This felt like a hell of a time to equalise as Forest’s changing room was no doubt very different at half time after this and United had the momentum for the second half. This included a change, as ASM had been feeling an injury that will be another concern for depleted personnel post-internationals, but Elliot Anderson was to emerge from the bench to turn in his finest performance for the first XI, which was so close to coming with a crowning glory.
It turns out that Longstaff was offside when the ball pinged off the Forest player next to him on it’s way back to Isak. This should have made zero difference but the officials conspired to rob Anderson of a treasured moment for his hometown club. Never mind Elliot son, it’s coming and there’ll be another day. It’s Man Utd up next…
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