Norwich post match thread

Yates said:
He created more than De Bruybne whilst on the park.
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Because DeBruyne is mentally & physically tired & shouldn't have been playing midweek. He was clearly fatigued v Sevilla & dug deep to save the game. Suffered v the rags, struggled initially v Palace & predictably had his worst game today.

We will be lucky if he doesn't pick up an injury in the next game.
 
I went to see a hysterically funny play in London the other week called 'The Play That Goes Wrong". As its name suggests it's a play where everything goes wrong.

Apart from the goalposts collapsing on Hart' s head, that could be described as "The Game That Goes Wrong".

Credit to Norwich, they were determined to keep a clean sheet if they could and they defended in a way I hadn't associated with them before. If Aguero had been available we'd have made mincemeat of their high line but Bony isn't that sort of player. Would have been better taking him off and putting Iheanacho on the shoulder of the last defender.

Bony also annoys me as he just doesn't attack the near or far post when we've got the ball in a promising position. He just hangs back on the edge of the box and a decent cross often goes begging.

I said during the game that our only chance was a set piece and so it proved, with a Watson-esque header from Otamendi. Then we seemed to be in control but Hart made a woeful misjudgement to let them back in. I'm in 109 and could see, when that ball was in the air, that he could be in trouble so was relieved when I though he'd caught it. But he really wasn't well positioned and couldn't hang on to it.

Fortunately we got back in it but lost our heads after that. The defence went to pieces, Bony should have squared it to Yaya instead of pissing about and WTF was Kolarov thinking?

Still, sometimes you have to scrape the points and that's 2 more ahead of the rags.
 
Wasn't there. Sounds to me like one of those games the league champions win.
 
Never dull with City is it ? Deserved to win it too. Decent enough performance from City. Yes Harty dropped a clanger (name a keeper who hasn't ?), Bony was wasteful in front of goal, De Bruyne was running on an empty tank and Kolarov's penalty was so wide it was untrue, but we did well to rescue the 3 points against a team who parked the bus for 95% of the game. We drew or lost these games last season. Otamendi looks a great buy and he's doing well to keep Mangala on the bench. Fantastic second half from him. Everyone else chipped in and we got over the line.
 
That had a very 'use as little energy as possible to get the result cos we've got the CL in a few days' feel to it IMO.

A pleasing 3 points, if not a pleasing performance.

As I said earlier in the season, Otamendi is world class. He is so old-skool and front-foot and can actually tackle. I fucking love him.
 
Neville Kneville said:
Because DeBruyne is mentally & physically tired & shouldn't have been playing midweek. He was clearly fatigued v Sevilla & dug deep to save the game. Suffered v the rags, struggled initially v Palace & predictably had his worst game today.

We will be lucky if he doesn't pick up an injury in the next game.
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I wasn't having a dig at De Bruyne, just trying to point out the justification for subbing Iheanacho off wasn't the best. But i do agree with that, De Bruyne does need a rest.
 
happy kdb went off a bit early .... our injury list doesn't help that he always has to play
 
Only we could make closing a game out after going 2-1 up in the 89th minute look so fucking difficult. What were they doing?

We got the win thank fuck thanks to their keeper almost messing up as much has Hart.

Toure was good, Otamendi was good. The rest average to poor.

Kolorov was wank defensively as per usual.
 
Joe Oh Joe you almost cost us the points. Fortunately you put it out of your mind and made a crucial save a couple of minutes later.
Bony really needs heaps of shooting practice - with coolness the game could have been in the bag in the first half.
We really need Sergio back and in form by the need of November.
 
We'reNotReallyHere said:
I know we got a penalty from it but does anyone know why the referee played a minute and half extra of injury time?
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Tricky_Trev said:
I felt it was harsh on Mangala to effectively be confirmed as Pellegrini's 3rd choice centre back over the last 3 games, but Otamendi's performance today has shown that whilst it is hard on Mangala, it's the right call. What a beast!
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Two weeks on the run.
Will prove to be one of our best signings in the modern era.
 
Yates said:
I wasn't having a dig at De Bruyne, just trying to point out the justification for subbing Iheanacho off wasn't the best. But i do agree with that, De Bruyne does need a rest.
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I know you weren't, but imo that is the reason for DeBruyne's recent below par performances. He's fucked. He digs deep to find a 2nd wind & pulls stuff out of the bag & that means he's a prime candidate for injury next.
 
Paul Lake's Left Knee said:
The fact the the De Bruyne thread hasnt appeared says a lot, he's one of the untouchables now, can do no wrong, despite being amongst our worst players today, offering little and giving the ball away a lot, other players are getting slagged off a lot more.
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This wasn't a dig at KDB just using it as an example as to the poor justification someone tried to make at the Nacho sub but ye KDB has been below par for the past few games, he does look fatigued so a rest will do him great. I've been guilty of what you're saying if I'm honest haha
 
Navas, Dinho Yaya are the only ones that had a half decent game today. Fernando when he came on was excellent too. The rest were fairly poor. Defence had very little to do so can't really be judged. Hart had an absolute mare with the goal but redeemed himself with a superb save late on. Takes some mental bottle to get on with things the way he did after such an awful mistake. Don't get the claims he should of punched it, i was right behind the goal, it was a routine catch, we'd all be going mental at him for punching that. Just one of those things. Just thankful it didn't cost us in the end. We can't smash 4/5 past every side so it's very pleasing that we won despite one of our poorer performances of the season. Hopefully Pellegrini won't risk playing 4-5-1 again as we are entirely predictable when we do. Thought it was a bit of an easy thing for him to do rather than actually make a bold decision and play Nacho ahead of Bony. All in all, disappointing performance but job done and we move on to Sevilla now.
 
Fuck me. You are a Manchester City defender leading 2-1 with 5 minutes left. A long hopeful ball to no-one is punted into your area. Do you:

a) get in the way of your team mate and end up panicking and hacking the ball needlessly out for a corner,
b) scuff it straight into your team mate's shins so it rebounds into the path of one of the opposition,
c) leave it to each other so one of the opposition nips in and nicks it,
d) attempt an utterly needless and suicidal pass to a team mate stood 2 yards away that he can't possibly hope to control
e) actually clear the fucking ball 60 yards to safety

If you answered a), b), c) or d), there's a fair chance Pellers will be on the blower next week offering you a trial. If you answered e), you are not Alex Kolarov, Bacary Sagna, Nicolas Otamendi or Vincent Kompany. It doesn't matter if we're brilliant or shit, the capacity of those bastards to take years off my life never changes.

Hats off to Ya Ya for a nerveless penalty, and hats off to Otters for the best salmon like bullet header since Mick McCarthy stuck it up the rag's arsehole circa 1986 at Maine Road, but other than that we made a right pig's ear of it. Still won though, which was crucial, and hopefully Silva and Kun will be back for the Dippers.

Oh, and a quick fuck off to that fat bastard Robert Madley. 5 minutes stoppage time for starters, and yet we were still playing at 96:05 when Sterling got upended. Anyone think we'd have still been playing a millisecond beyond that 5 minute mark if we'd been losing? Would we chuff. He added 4 against West Ham (and it should have been 10, such was the time wasting) when the shoe was on the other foot....!
 
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Balmy to take off Nacho especially when Bony has just been cropped and has to play at Seville.

That fucking ref again 1 min injury time first half and 5 second.....bent or useless?

Didn't notice Yaya kicking off.

Oh and if you leave early fucking leave don't stand in front of people then kick off when your told to fucking shift.
 
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