Ramsdale 6 - Couldn’t do anything about the goal, some of his handling from Forest set pieces was a bit suspect
White 5 - Another player who has played too many games this season
Gabriel 7 - A couple of mistakes aside, did a lot of good work to clear the danger and was unlucky not to prevent the Forest goal
Kiwior 5 - Not a full back
Jorginho 5 - A lot of what NQ would call Tippety Tappity, not much end product
Partey 5 - Like Kiwior not a full back
Xhaka 6 - Not one of the worst players on the pitch for once
Odegaard 3 - Terrible
Saka 4 - Largely isolated in a team that played far too narrowly
Jesus 4 - Day summed up by tripping up and falling on one of the few occasions he got behind the defence
Trossard 4 - Played far too narrowly
Subs
Nketiah and Vieira 4 - Had no idea they were even on the pitch
Tierney 7 - Actually introduced some threat on the left hand side
Started ok, dealt well defensively with a team that was going to play like Stoke City but then just utterly carelessly casual from Odegaard and it never felt like we were going to get back into the game, even Arteta himself claimed we could have played for another two hours and wouldn’t have scored…and he’s right, we didn’t come close.
For me the referee didn’t help, did everything in his power to stop the game from flowing and enable Forest to waste time and slow the game down. It was pathetic how often their players went down under virtually no contact from us.
Of course it doesn’t change that we were utterly toothless, pass, pass, pass, pass give the ball away