Nottingham –
Arsenal quickly eliminated in FA Cup after being removed Nottingham Forest. The Tricky Trees prove that they are the scourge of the Gunners in this event.
Arsenal visited the City Ground, Monday (10/1/2022) early morning WIB, in the continuation of the 2021/2022 FA Cup third round against Forest. Arsenal are clearly more favored because they have a better squad quality than Forest.
Moreover, Arsenal fielded a number of core players in this match, because they had a long break after the first leg of the English League Cup semi-final against Liverpool was postponed.
Playing dominant since the early minutes, Arsenal struggled to penetrate the Forest defense. Poor finishing made Arsenal unable to create a shot on target.
Forest, who played defensively and counter-attacked, was finally able to break into Arsenal’s goal in the 83rd minute through substitute Lewis Grabban who cheated on his partner’s cross from the right.
The 1-0 score for Forest lasted until the game was over and they were entitled to a ticket to the FA Cup fourth round. Meanwhile, Arsenal have to bite their fingers to accept the fact that this is their worst achievement in this event for the last 26 years.
Prior to this, Arsenal failed to progress from the third round for the first time in 2017/2018. At that time the opponent was… Forest who also beat Arsenal at home with a score of 4-2.
Arsenal at that time could only make two goals through Per Mertesacker and Danny Welbeck, and were twice punished by penalties.
“I think we deserved to qualify. We faced a very good team. We have a mature strategy. We want to be brave to press and punish them on the counter-attack, that’s how we score goals,” said the manager. Nottingham Forest Steve Cooper to ITV.
“I am very proud of the players, their performance. It was brilliant to qualify and I hope the players are more confident in what they are doing at the moment,” he continued.
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