*’Posted 3:30pm bells 🔔’ Thorzday 29th August 2024
Longstaff’s winner and celebrations!
“DOUBLE DELIGHT!”
This photo woz taken a second before Willock’s goal!
NUFC went through to the 3rd roond of the Leegue Cup with an unconvincin display against The Friar Tuck Mob of Nottingham!
We scored with wor first attack of the game at the opposite Trent End with anly 18 seconds on the clock when Sandro Tonali, (who woz playin his first game after his 10 month ban for gamblin’) sent Isak through and his shot woz parried oot by the Forest goalie Miguel into the path of Joe Willock who had the easy task of side footin the baall into the net!
1-0 to us!
2 minutes later Tonali woz put through by Isak, but hiz shot woz blocked by their goalie who stuck oot a leg to stop hiz shot!
After this, Forest 🌳 went on the attack but couldn’t find the back of the net and we went in 1-0 up at the break!It didn’t take The Friar Tuck Mob lang to find the equaliser when a Silva volley went in off the post in the 50th minute! 1-1
For the next 15 minutes they tried for the winner with The Toon strugglin with missed placed passes and lost possession!
Wor purple patch came in the closin stages when Dan Burn,🔥 Harvey Barnes, Lewis Hall and Anthony Gordon aall had chances to win it, but it ended aall square and the dreaded penalty kicks to decide the winner!
The sequence of events were az follows:
The penalties were taken at The Trent End and Hudson-Odoi scored the first one for Forest when he hit his shot to the high centre of the goal with wor goalie’The Pope’ unable to get to it! 0-1 to them!
Isak took wor first pen and he hit a right footed shot into the centre of the goal! 1-1
Milenkovic scores to put them 1-2 up!
Joelinton’s right footed shot iz saved by Miguel who dived to the left!
Still 1-2 to them!
Williams gives Forest 🌳 a 2 goal advantage with a shot to the right of Pope! 1-3 to them!
Bruno reduces the deficit to 2-3 with a shot to the right hand side of the goal!
Sangare hits the bar to the dismay of the home fans and delight of the away fans! Still 2-3!
Anthony Gordon scores with a right footed shot to their goalie’s left hand side! 3-3 (It’s squeaky bum time folks!)
Awoniyi steps up for Forest and mee mate Russ (allegedly!) says in a loud voice “Nee way HE’LL miss—NEE WAY!”—-‘and so it came to pass’ that he hit the baall SO HIGH ower the bar that it nearly ended up in the river Trent behind the stand! (Egg on Russ’s face comes to mind!) However! Russ did predict correctly that Joelinton WOULDN’T score—so we’ll let him off this time!
It woz then left to Sean Longstaff to win the game for NUFC when he stepped up to take wor 5th penalty, with “He’s one of our own!” ringin in his ear az he stepped up to take it!
And he made nee misstayk az he send Miguel the wrang way to hit his shot to the right hand side of the goal to mayhem in the away end az we celebrated wildly! (See top video!)
Attendance: 23,083 (3,000 very happy 😃 Toon fans!)
There woz double delight for ‘The NUFC mad-sad groundhoppers’ az we made wor way back to wor transport back yem, az we drew AFC Wimbledon away in the 3rd roond!—One of anly 2 teams left in The Leegue Cup whose groonds we have never been tee! (Fleetwood iz the other one!)
“Womble’s—Womble’s here we come!
🤪👍🏁PS: This woz the 8th time in a row in domestic cup competitions that we have been drawn away from home!
In complete contrast Moan U have been drawn at home 12 times in a row! (Who says it isn’t a ‘fix’?)
Just one boozer woz visited this time in Nottingham!
*PS: We say ‘The Friar Tuck Mob’ az the Robin Hood outlaws came from Sherwood Forest 🌳 near Nottingham, which include Friar Tuck!—get it?
Friar Tuck (on the right) with Robin Hood and Maid Marion!
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