Norwich (a) pre-match thread

[Eds]

4141 please, not 4231 or 4411 again.

Aguero
Sterling Dinho Silva Navas
Fernando
Clichy Otamendi Kompany Sagna
Hart

Caballero, Zabaleta, Mangala, Kolarov, Garcia, Iheanacho, Bony​

I would go with that just maybe in a slightly different set up. That said if that team can't beat a hard working but ultimately poor Norwich team then we don't deserve to be in top four. We must start off at a high tempo, take the game to them, score a couple of early goals to knock the stuffing out of them, score a third with half an hour to go then cruise through the rest of the game. Three goals, three points, clean sheet and no injuries

 

[Silva_Spell]

I would go with that just maybe in a slightly different set up. That said if that team can't beat a hard working but ultimately poor Norwich team then we don't deserve to be in top four. We must start off at a high tempo, take the game to them, score a couple of early goals to knock the stuffing out of them, score a third with half an hour to go then cruise through the rest of the game. Three goals, three points, clean sheet and no injuries

Without Yaya we can't play 4231 or 4411 because both setups leave the number 10 isolated, which in turn leaves Aguero isolated and our widemen with nothing to run onto.

Dinho's avg position should be 10 yards further forward than normal and Silva's 10 yards further back.

It also allows us to break quickly as a unit, whether we sit back or press high, whilst shielding the CBs, and it plugs the all too common gigantic hole we leave in the centre

 

[Eccles Blue]

I don't know what you are all worrying about, City are, according to a free newspaper delivered through my door this morning, playing SWANSEA at Carrow Road tomorrow. So why Norwich are letting Swansea borrow their ground I have no idea!! Especially when we don't play Swansea away until the last game in May!! :-) I am just in the process of emailing Stuart Brennan to advise him that he may, just may, be going to watch City play Norwich at Carrow Road tomorrow.

 

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[Pam]

We under-estimate Delia's Canary Brigade at our peril. They gave us a scare at our place earlier this season. It was a mad finish. They got their equalizer with less than ten minutes to spare, only to give away two penalties in the last five minutes of the game. Yaya scored the first, and then went off injured. Kolarov insisted on taking the second pen and missed horribly, which you just knew he would. His pen turned out to be the last kick of the game. It was all a bit shit, one way or another. I hope we play better tomorrow.

 

[Dax777]

Why does Pellers always show his hand regarding injuries. Knowing that Yaya is out will be a big boost for Norwich knowing that Nasri, Delph and KDB are also injured. Norwich now have 24 hours at adapt their team and possibly play a different way. Personally I hope he plays Navas and Sterling wide with Silva just behind Aguero and Nando and Dinho shielding the back four.

Oh no, here we go again with the 'show his hand' claptrap :(

 

[ninjamonkey]

Don't expect to see this team but from the players we have available it should be

----------------Hart

Sagna Mangala Kompany Kolarov

-----Fernando Fernandinho

Navas -------Silva--------- Sterling

-------------Aguero

 

[Dax777]

4141 please, not 4231 or 4411 again.

Aguero
Sterling Dinho Silva Navas
Fernando
Clichy Otamendi Kompany Sagna
Hart

Caballero, Zabaleta, Mangala, Kolarov, Garcia, Iheanacho, Bony​

There is no discernible difference BTW the 3 formations you listed. It is simply a function of how the players play it.

 

[Dax777]

Don't expect to see this team but from the players we have available it should be

----------------Hart

Sagna Mangala Kompany Kolarov

-----Fernando Fernandinho

Navas -------Silva--------- Sterling

-------------Aguero

Outside of the full backs ( who are all available) that's almost certainly going to be the team.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Outside of the full backs ( who are all available) that's almost certainly going to be the team.

Yeah, the midfield kind of picks itself in our minds at least, although i wouldn't rule out him going 4-4-2 and dropping Sterling to the bench but the defence was what i was concentrating on. I don't think he'll play Mangala ahead of Otamendi and he never seems to play just one of the more attacking fullbacks in Zab and Kolarov, it's usually both or none.