Norwich (a) post-match thread

wolfie1988 said:
We've been a defensive shit show since our 1st Pre-season game. With and without Laporte.

Simply cannot afford to cough up 2 or 3 big chances to teams in games at this level as you get stung. It's like 2016/17 all over again. We have a couple of gaping holes in our team and system that are being exploited and we need to find answers quickly so they don't jeopardise our season too much.

Gundogan and Silva should never ever play together as the two advanced midfielders. Too one paced and not enough snappiness and aggression there. I've been saying the same since 16/17. Would have been better off playing one of Foden or Bernardo in there to add extra legs.
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We’d clearly be more successful if you were manager.
 
salfordbluetrue said:
I had watched Norwich a few times this season and wanted to see if they could bring it out of defense as we used to against us, to be fair they did, most of the game was free flowing, their first goal was very good but Rodri`s was a cracker, the lad Lewis, it was good to see him close up
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Before we get too engrossed in our imperfections, don't forget that Norwich's game against a full strength Liverpool was a very even game - Norwich had the easy chances to put a defensively poor Liverpool away. Without being anywhere near our best, we were dominant - far more dominant than Liverpool, but inexplicably unable to strike our shots cleanly - Rodri apart. Liverpool's almost biblical immunity from injury to their best players surely can't last another season.
 
HarrytheBlue said:
Before we get too engrossed in our imperfections, don't forget that Norwich's game against a full strength Liverpool was a very even game - Norwich had the easy chances to put a defensively poor Liverpool away. Without being anywhere near our best, we were dominant - far more dominant than Liverpool, but inexplicably unable to strike our shots cleanly - Rodri apart. Liverpool's almost biblical immunity from injury to their best players surely can't last another season.
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I think it is fair to say that liverpools lack of quality players is such that you have not noticed they have had injuries, unfortunately for us if you play deep against liverpool they get penalties and if you play high to stop that, they get off side goals, it maybe the case we would have more luck if the ref had the injury
 
tommo74 said:
I am just going to tell you a little bit about football, it was Norwich game plan to allow us to have the ball, and allow us to play in their half and then catch us on the break, which they successfully did, so nothing to do with us working hard it was more to do with us falling into Norwich trap
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We were gonna have that much of the ball whether they were trapping us or not.
their goals were from a stupid giveaway and a flash header on a corner that would have been stopped with a guy on the post and one nice counter that walker played norwich onside. 2-1 should have been the score and our points, but as it was we didn't deserve them.
 
WNRH said:
Who said I am teaching Pep? He knows more about football than me and is far more successful than I have ever done anything in the game.

Doesn’t mean that he should not be pointed out for mistakes that people think he has done. He makes mistakes and I and others will point them out. Resting your best and influential player for a tough away game is a mistake and you don’t need a champions league winners medal to qualify that opinion.
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Really, did you honestly believe that (and not with hindsight)
 
tommo74 said:
Yes out first champions league game, which even if we drew or lost we have time to put it right, fall to far behind in the Prem and we might not be able to claw it back
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As I said, you’re wasted on here.
 
Franknorgrovesnephew said:
One defeat and some of our fans are unbelievable.
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Some of the comments is ridiculous!
Not saying it's nice to get beat one bit, But since the defeat I've been thinking ots good to have a reality check which might stand us in good sted for the rest of the season. Honestly every week all of us think no matter who were playing 'We'll smash these today', So makes Watford game a little more interesting now especially the way they performed yesterday they were outstanding second half.
 
SWPISHOME said:
Some of the comments is ridiculous!
Not saying it's nice to get beat one bit, But since the defeat I've been thinking ots good to have a reality check which might stand us in good sted for the rest of the season. Honestly every week all of us think no matter who were playing 'We'll smash these today', So makes Watford game a little more interesting now especially the way they performed yesterday they were outstanding second half.
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100% mate
 
As a long suffering City fan who was there in the third tier it is hard to reconcile just how big we have become and how other fan's view us. Of course I know we have a great team playing the best football I have seen in my 50+ years of watching us, but for me we are just fallible old City. Days like Saturday's result are ingrained in my psyche. I fear them every game we play, no matter what the experts say on how superior we are to the opposition and how their only hope is keeping the score down. Thirty five years of mainly misery are hard to eradicate.

I digress though. I have two good friends from Norwich who I met years ago in Tenerife, both season ticket holders. Becky's season ticket is three rows behind the away dugout, a great seat. She was so excited to play us on Saturday even though she feared the worst. She sent me this message on Friday evening.

" So I don’t need to wish you luck tomorrow, given our injuries and your talent I think you have three points already and as you know Norwich fans personally don’t take any notice of who represent us on soccer am tomorrow hopefully we will see you soon in Tenerife . "

I don't often watch soccer am but apparently Norwich fan's were on it Saturday. During the game we exchanged messages occasionally and she was genuinely in shock when Norwich went 2-0 up. She couldn't believe it and said she had lost her voice. I congratulated her at the end of the game and she told me two City fans at the game had done the same which I took pride in. Well done those fans.

Today she posted, " Just watching the Norwich game again in case I was dreaming........goosebumps. " Her friend replied she cried at the end. This is how feared and revered we are as a team these days that for fan's of many other teams see beating us like the football equivalent of winning the lottery. I realise as a newly promoted team like Norwich it had extra significance as it proved they could live with the big boys. Even so it still comes as a shock that to many others we are not little old City anymore but a superpower, even if on Saturday for 90+ minutes we reverted back to our comical past. So as gutted as I was to lose on Saturday for Becky and the other Norwich fan's I can't begrudge them their joy, it is moments like that what football is all about. I just hope they experience the same joy when Liverpool visit Carrow Road.
 
CC1 said:
As I said, you’re wasted on here.
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Yes people with opinions that differ from others are wasted on here, no one is allowed to suggest the manager got his selection wrong, which I think he clearly did, but hey ho people aren't allowed to say that are they
 
Gray said:
Most of us will have got over the game by now.

What pissed us off at the time was that we all know we are so much better than that display.
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I've got over it, even seen my resident Norwich fan this morning, can't get over the over reaction and knee jerking on nearly every bluemoon thread though. so I'll give it a miss for the rest of the day.
 
tommo74 said:
Yes people with opinions that differ from others are wasted on here, no one is allowed to suggest the manager got his selection wrong, which I think he clearly did, but hey ho people aren't allowed to say that are they
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The other thing to remember mate is that you can't actually comment on the post match thread about that actual game. You're not allowed to lambast a performance or a passage of play, or even a piece of schoolboy defending. No, the post match thread is for how certain players performed in the 17/18 campaign and the occasional insult for daring to have a different view than others.
 
daztrueblue91 said:
The shot conversion is the most worrying. I was about to say that 9 times out of 10 you don’t concede with every shot you face on target but that’s happened to us twice in five games.

That said, we comfortably created far more than both Spurs and Norwich but failed to outscore either of them.
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I totally agree.
25 attempts on goal on Saturday, yet we only scored 2 (1 in 12.5). Similarly against Spurs (1 in 15). We normally score between 1 in 5 and 1 in 6.
Defensively Zinchenko and Otamendi just doesn't work IMO but overall defensive cohesion is the real problem. We conceded 2 in 3 Against Spurs and 3 in 7 against Norwich.
 
Defending corners at the near post is top if the list to fix. One of our taller players, probably Rodri, needs to attack the ball here.
 
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