Norwich (a) post-match thread

The reality is we gift wrapped two, and Norwich played out of their skins and just hoped for the best as chance after chance fell to us. Rodri apart, we couldn’t hit our usual clean strikes. Ironically, Norwich v Liverpool (or was it the other way round ?) was a much more even game, but they got away with it.
 
Mattyc55 said:
Stones and Otamendi have contributed to 8 out of the 10 goals caused by individual errors since Pep took over.

Feels like 2016/17 watching them two playing alongside eachother again.
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That's the problem some people are failing to realize when they refer to last season's heroics we did. We won the league when Kompany and Laporte closed the shop s we could win few of those 1:0's. No way these two are going to grind those kind of results regularly. We conceded 4-5 goals in that 14 wins run. We conceded 7 already in 5 games this year.

The hole Kompany left in our defence is colossal. Pep went back to him whenever things became tough and our defence was always suspect when he was not in the team regularly. Even with Laporte, let alone without him.
 
WEMBLEY76 said:
Not too worried,33 games to go a lot can happen and we will come back stronger.A very bad day at the office all round,things didn’t quite click and Norwich played us very well and deserved their win.
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Seem to recall we lost 3-2 at Cardiff a few years back, around the same point in the season and look how that one turned out.
If we're ever going to get a kick in the arse, now's the time.
 
paulchapo said:
Fuck off I have been going since 1968 smartarse, trust me I have seen plenty of losses, a lot of them shocking. Our defending today was on a par with the bad old days though.
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Fair enough Paulchapo, I don't want to fall out with you, you are a respected poster on here, I've clocked you for some time.. I'm as p*ssed off as you tonight, it's all about opinions mate !
 
Needed the central defenders to be able to hit diagonals and stretch the play, but both look woefully short of confidence. Across the park we are also guilty of taking too many touches which slows the game down and allows defences to regroup.
 
Yes it will hopefully refocus our minds to what is important,not too worried about Liverpool they will hit a bad spell this season.
 
BosnianBlue said:
That's the problem some people are failing to realize when they refer to last season's heroics we did. We won the league when Kompany and Laporte closed the shop s we could win few of those 1:0's. No way these two are going to grind those kind of results regularly. We conceded 4-5 goals in that 14 wins run. We conceded 7 already in 5 games this year.
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Who closed the shop in 2017 when we won 55 from 57 points? Mangala?
 
Sometimes the best teams and best individuals lose in a sporting contest, it’s what they do after that defeat is what makes them great
 
Withnail said:
Apalling performance, very worrying considering Laporte is out until the new year. Defence was all over the place and we will regret not buying a cb in the window. Otamendi is a complete liability and we can forget the title on that performance. Very few positives
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Only a poor performance by our usual standards. If that was megabucks Everton having 25 attempts and 70 per cent possession, pundits would say ‘good performance ruined by two crazy moments’. What seems poor to us is MU having a good day.
 
Poor defending gave them two of their three goals but on another day Aguero alone would have scored four, and several times on attack the ball just didn't fall right for a City player.
 
Abysmal attitude today. Seemed like we could just go through the motions. No desire and yet again not putting the ball away. Coupled with some comical defending it turned out to be a really bad day for us. Canaries deserves their win, they think they’ll stay up because of that performance, they’ll be back to getting bumped again next match.
I’m pretty disappointed that we just gave the dippers a massive leg up.
Ota is a massive liability at the back, get Ferni in there, he can’t be any worse.
Uphill struggle from here and I feel we won’t be having it all our own way. Until we can realise there’s no easy game, we will continue to get caught out and embarrassed.
 
Bill the Blue said:
Fair enough Paulchapo, I don't want to fall out with you, you are a respected poster on here, I've clocked you for some time.. I'm as p*ssed off as you tonight, it's all about opinions mate !
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No problem mate nerves are a little raw for everyone tonight. Not sure about respected, I post a bloody lot, too much time on my hands these days lol!

Nobody's giving up on anything we have turned worse around before. Hopefully Pep comes up with a plan to sort the defence out.
 
Fair play to Norwich. They played like they wanted it more.

Rodri was great, everyone else a 5 or less.
 
I have perused these pages seeking a better understanding of the reasons for today's result - my thanks to all contributors for their valuable insights. I think we can safely conclude it had to happen sometime and it's better now when we can still put things right.
 
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rnblade said:
Abysmal attitude today. Seemed like we could just go through the motions. No desire and yet again not putting the ball away. Coupled with some comical defending it turned out to be a really bad day for us. Canaries deserves their win, they think they’ll stay up because of that performance, they’ll be back to getting bumped again next match.
I’m pretty disappointed that we just gave the dippers a massive leg up.
Ota is a massive liability at the back, get Ferni in there, he can’t be any worse.
Uphill struggle from here and I feel we won’t be having it all our own way. Until we can realise there’s no easy game, we will continue to get caught out and embarrassed.
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I honestly think you love when we lose, then you can post your inane hyperbole
 
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Our defending was dreadful.
Our build up play was too slow.
We were unbelievably wasteful in front of goal.
Pep left our best player, Kevin, on the bench.

Season over as PL or CL challengers if we continue like this.
 
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