Figueiredo - Needs a few games to get back to his best, but he's as solid as a shit brickhouse.
Fox - Remember when Fox was Forest's Keogh? Those days are long gone now. A powerfully aggressive performance saw him crowned with the hero's toilet paper, and the crowd enjoyed his performance as much as he obviously enjoyed delivering it.
Darikwa - Did surprisingly well for a resident scapegoat. People who snipe at him should try playing at full back, the fat bastards.
Osborn - Did surprisingly well for a resident scapegoat. People who snipe at him should try playing at full back, the fat bastards.
Guedioura - Pep chose this game to descend from heaven and play as a mere mortal. Still mightily influential and stuffed with confidence.
Dias - One day everything this man does will result in goals of such quality they will be talked about until the seas boil. Not today though.
Colback - This was Colback's kind of game - one needing grit, security, and ginger snap, which he provided.
Carvalho - Love this bloke, cos he's clever, tough and intelligent...
...unlike Lolley, who is obviously as mad as a box of cocks. Once he remembers to switch his brain on when in a threatening position he will be effective as well as nobbishly exciting.
Grabban - Slow starter, strong finisher. Really needs a goal.
Cash - If Cash was a superhero he would be ElectroMan, tasering the villains into fuzzy-haired panic. It was his persistence that created and facilitated Soudani's goal.
Soudani - A real character. Not only is he a very good footballer (what a really well taken goal) but he obviously has a slightly manic sense of occasion. Is he tubby, or is he just puffed up with the joy of living? I don't know.
Robinson - I'm waiting for this bloke to get beaten by pace, so his opponent goes past him "quicker than you can say Jack Robinson." But I hope it never happens, cos it's a crap joke anyway.
The Crowd - Big. Red. Louder than a Train.
As you know, we don't do cup reports, but if we did, we would advise you never ever to check the score on that BBC Ceefax thing, or whatever it is they call it these days.
This picture was taken an hour after the tie finished.
