Nottingham Forest vs Newcastle United League Cup match banter! (And competition update)
Posted on September 20th, 2011 | 200 Comments |
Date: Tuesday, Sept 20th, 2011
Kick-off: 7:45pm
Referee: Lee Mason
Hello, good evening and welcome to NUFC Blog’s match banter feature for this evening’s League Cup encounter with Nottingham Forest at their place.
Forest have been struggling of late under former England manager and Dutch accent specialist, Steve “Wally with the brolly” McClaren, with the former double European cup winners languishing in the bottom three of the Championship table. However, before we get arrogant, it should not be forgotten that League One relegation candidates, Scunthorpe, really gave we Magpies a run for our money in the last round of this competition, with only an extra time goal separating the the sides in what was a very close contest. Don’t forget that for a more in depth look at the upcoming game, you can always check out Jimbob’s excellent match preview.
NUFC Blog Score Prediction Competition update
Still riding high in the £100 top spot, we have “Sir Jason Toon” on 44 points. However, as ever, “El Toro” is hot on his heels like a raging bull with 38 points, with “Geordie 101” and “Sveinstrand” battling it out for the £25 third place spot on 33 and 32 points respectively. You may also notice that competition organiser, Hugh de Payen, is in second on 42 points, but he doesn’t count for obvious reasons.
Check out the full table here.
If you missed out on joining the competition this time, don’t forget that there are not one but TWO chances per season to win big cash prizes. This competition will run until the end of this year, with a new one starting straight after that so be prepared and DON’T MISS OUT!
Getting back to this evening’s game though, as usual, I shall endeavour to post the teamsheets for the game below when they become available. One last thing, if anyone has any links to the game, please feel free to post them. I have also been informed that there will be radio commentary for the game courtesy of Radio Five Live Extra.
Howay the Lads!
Teams
Nottingham Forest: Camp (C), Lynch, Morgan, Gunter, Moloney, Greening, Moussi, Findley, McGuigan, Derbyshire, Tudgay.
Subs: Smith, Barnford, Freeman, Chambers, Reid, Majewski, Miller.
Newcastle United (4-2-3-1): Rob Elliot (G), Danny Simpson, James Perch, Fabricio Coloccini (C), Shane Ferguson, Dan Gosling, Danny Guthrie, Sylvain Marveaux, Mehdi Abeid, Hatem Ben Arfa, Pater Lovenkrands.
Subs: Tim Krul (G), Jeff Henderson, Paul Dummett, Gabriel Obertan, Sammy Ameobi, Shola Ameobi, Leon Best.
Evenin’ Worky
Don’t know about u but I’m struggling for links tonight.
How about u?