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Nuno Albertino Varela Tavares

Gyros Peter

Gyros Peter

Sauce salad?
Played well yesterday - certainly the best I've seen him in a defensive point of view, Shane he fluffed his lines with his two efforts, but otherwise a good game tmfrom him I thought and linked well with CHO.

With Aina probably back for the next one not sure what happens at LB... good on Tavares for staking something of a claim though.
 
Rockabilly

Rockabilly

GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
Gyros Peter said:
Played well yesterday - certainly the best I've seen him in a defensive point of view, Shane he fluffed his lines with his two efforts, but otherwise a good game tmfrom him I thought and linked well with CHO.

With Aina probably back for the next one not sure what happens at LB... good on Tavares for staking something of a claim though.
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Aye... just needs to get his shooting boots put on straight.
 
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MaxiRobriguez

Bob McKinlay
I really dislike players like Tavares.

He's just never going to be any good because his decision making is dreadful and his fist touch is too often problematic.

He's so incredibly frustrating. Beats three players and to open up a 4 on 3 and then picks the worst option. Every time.

Physically he's got all the attributes to be a top player but the reason he's here with us on loan is because his brain is the size of a peanut.
 
Otis Redding

Otis Redding

Try A Little Tenderness
Because he has that burning pace to get us up the pitch quickly, I'd be surprised if he automatically loses his place. I can even just about accept it when he wants to have a go at a shot himself, hugely frustrating though his attempts generally are, but he really does have to improve his decision-making when he has the opportunity to get in behind (which he does have the knack of doing) and whip the ball across the box when others are better placed.
 
Gyros Peter

Gyros Peter

Sauce salad?
MaxiRobriguez said:
I really dislike players like Tavares.

He's just never going to be any good because his decision making is dreadful and his fist touch is too often problematic.

He's so incredibly frustrating. Beats three players and to open up a 4 on 3 and then picks the worst option. Every time.

Physically he's got all the attributes to be a top player but the reason he's here with us on loan is because his brain is the size of a peanut.
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Similar to Traore.
 
Robertson

Robertson

Geoff Thomas
Think if Tavares did less and took the easy option every time he’d get a lot less stick. Nuno obviously values players who will take risks to make things happen though.

Personally I think I’d prefer a happy medium somewhere in between the Tavares wild card option and Toffolo steadily trundling up and down the left flank. Tavares certainly has the edge physically though and it’s not even close.
 
Captain Sinister

Captain Sinister

Senior doom Monger
gregor said:
Think if Tavares did less and took the easy option every time he’d get a lot less stick. Nuno obviously values players who will take risks to make things happen though.

Personally I think I’d prefer a happy medium somewhere in between the Tavares wild card option and Toffolo steadily trundling up and down the left flank. Tavares certainly has the edge physically though and it’s not even close.
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Tavares has the other advantage in that he is Portuguese, and NES does like his Portuguese compatriots.
My 2 concerns with Tavares are:
1 when defending he is poor;
2 When he gets to the final third he is poor.
His progress from our box to the opposition box is powerful.
It's just that when he gets to either end he is a bit lost.
 
Notcher

Notcher

Stuart Pearce
Otis Redding said:
It's all about opinions mate; I strongly disagree with yours as I thought he played a significant role in our attacking play yesterday, particularly in the 2nd-half, and generally coped defensively.
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I'm completely on your side of the fence here Otis. It was by some margin his best game yesterday. The only negative was those 2 inexplicable shots.

He drove us up the pitch on several occasions and linked up well with CHO. He was better defensively yesterday too, I can't remember Gordon getting much change out of him either when he switched sides.

There was enough to be more encouraged with him.
 
Gyros Peter

Gyros Peter

Sauce salad?
Notcher said:
I'm completely on your side of the fence here Otis. It was by some margin his best game yesterday. The only negative was those 2 inexplicable shots.

He drove us up the pitch on several occasions and linked up well with CHO. He was better defensively yesterday too, I can't remember Gordon getting much change out of him either when he switched sides.

There was enough to be more encouraged with him.
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He scored a couple like the first spooner yesterday for Marseille, which at least explains why he took it on - can hit from distance with his right.
 
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ARedChester

First Team Squad
Notcher said:
I'm completely on your side of the fence here Otis. It was by some margin his best game yesterday. The only negative was those 2 inexplicable shots.

He drove us up the pitch on several occasions and linked up well with CHO. He was better defensively yesterday too, I can't remember Gordon getting much change out of him either when he switched sides.

There was enough to be more encouraged with him.
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Wasn't it him who through CHO link up picked out MGW in the opening few mins?
 
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Berkshire Red

Jack Armstrong
Otis Redding said:
It's all about opinions mate; I strongly disagree with yours as I thought he played a significant role in our attacking play yesterday, particularly in the 2nd-half, and generally coped defensively.
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Look at how much Almiron did yesterday, bugger all. I thought we kept them out defensively. Nuno was more of a threat to them than Trippier was to us, apart from at set pieces.

Tavares made a lovely run through early on and had the sense to look up and play MGW in for what should have been the opening goal. That's what he needs to do more often.

Some are suggesting that both his wild shots costs us real chances: the first was from over 20 yards out with four or five Mags between him and the goal. There was no way his shot cosy us a magnificent chance, though he would have been better helping us build an attack rather than wasting it. The second chance: he was right to shoot but just needs to go hard and low instead of head up and smash it.

His dynamism will help him keep a place ahead of Toffolo, who is just steady. Aina might take his place though, 'cos he can be equally as swift as we saw against Man U and Newcastle away.
 
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DocForest

First Team Squad
He was really good yesterday apart from his 2 brain fart attempts at goal. He's not the brightest when he's on the pitch .....
 
apondaway

apondaway

Viv Anderson
IMO Tavares is a lot like Turner. Can be brilliant and then make a school boy error. There's a reason some of these players are with Forest and not "bigger" clubs - it's the propensity for errors/gaffs. If they (collective players) can get a run of three or four games without the usual mistakes Forest flies. But that's against the odds.
 
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Beasty

Rice 34
His game yesterday does seem to be polarising opinion, I think it depends how much you focus on that final 3rd because he was very frustrating in and around the box.
 
apondaway

apondaway

Viv Anderson
Beasty said:
His game yesterday does seem to be polarising opinion, I think it depends how much you focus on that final 3rd because he was very frustrating in and around the box.
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I felt he was immense... until he wasn't. It's the final decision that often lets him down. He carried the ball really well but couldn't execute on the final pass (save setting up MGW for a sitter that MGW missed). He has decent ideas but can't pull them off more times than not.

There is a really decent player in there, hoping he grows into his potential with the time he's being afforded but doesn't cost Forest too many points.
 
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dr_horse

Geoff Thomas
Looks like he'll always be a bit hit and miss but he contributed a lot yesterday. Frustrating at times but the good far outweighed the bad for the first time.

Should have been pulled for Toff towards the end when we needed the better delivery but that one is on the manager.

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Notcher

Notcher

Stuart Pearce
Master Yates said:
I wish we could keep Tavares the athlete and transplant a brain from someone who knows how to play football into him. He’d be lethal.


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There is a lot of similarities between him and Adama Traore
 
Statto

Statto

Free Kick Specialist
Thought he was pretty ruff yesterday tbf, had to be barking to try some of those shots he had
 
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