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Author Topic: Norwich City vs Aston Villa Match Thread.  (Read 22926 times)

Offline paul_e

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Re: Norwich City vs Aston Villa Match Thread.
« Reply #420 on: April 07, 2018, 02:28:58 PM »
This isn't about complacency, or attitude or anything else like that.  The problem is that teams have realised that if you press us we play safe and simple and are completely toothless and then when you have the ball just pick 2-3 players with pace and we'll get caught out again and again.

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Re: Norwich City vs Aston Villa Match Thread.
« Reply #421 on: April 07, 2018, 02:29:08 PM »
Rubbish from both manager and players.  I think Bruce should have been more proactive and made changes when the game was still close at 0-0, or maybe when it was just the 1 goal.  It's always going to be a up hill struggle chasing a team like Norwich when its 2-0 on their own patch.  I'm not going to knock Connor because he's been brilliant all season and everyone has bad days.  But as a whole the players and management have dropped the ball. 

My hope now is that Fulham overtake Cardiff and sneak into second.  I'd fancy playing the Bluebirds more in the play-offs than Fulham right now. 

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Re: Norwich City vs Aston Villa Match Thread.
« Reply #422 on: April 07, 2018, 02:29:17 PM »
Makes the game against Cardiff meaningless for us now.
Yep. Just knocked 10,000 off the gate. Well done fucking spud head.

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Re: Norwich City vs Aston Villa Match Thread.
« Reply #423 on: April 07, 2018, 02:30:09 PM »
Look at that gormless spud-faced goon.
We have been looking at that face too long.

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Re: Norwich City vs Aston Villa Match Thread.
« Reply #424 on: April 07, 2018, 02:31:12 PM »
Makes the game against Cardiff meaningless for us now.
Yep. Just knocked 10,000 off the gate. Well done fucking spud head.
Yes I am really embarrassed about turning up on Tuesday.

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Re: Norwich City vs Aston Villa Match Thread.
« Reply #425 on: April 07, 2018, 02:31:48 PM »
This isn't about complacency, or attitude or anything else like that.  The problem is that teams have realised that if you press us we play safe and simple and are completely toothless and then when you have the ball just pick 2-3 players with pace and we'll get caught out again and again.

You don't even need to press us across the pitch. Just pressure Snodgrass, Adomah and Grealish into going backwards = job done.

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Re: Norwich City vs Aston Villa Match Thread.
« Reply #426 on: April 07, 2018, 02:35:38 PM »
Could have been 4 or 5 at the end, on this form we've absolutely no chance in the play offs.

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Re: Norwich City vs Aston Villa Match Thread.
« Reply #427 on: April 07, 2018, 02:37:21 PM »
This isn't about complacency, or attitude or anything else like that.  The problem is that teams have realised that if you press us we play safe and simple and are completely toothless and then when you have the ball just pick 2-3 players with pace and we'll get caught out again and again.

You don't even need to press us across the pitch. Just pressure Snodgrass, Adomah and Grealish into going backwards = job done.

Well yeah, I should've been more specific.  That's why Bruce is a defensive manager, if the choice is a 50/50 pass that could create a chance or a safe pass back to a defender we almost always choose the latter, even if we're chasing a game.  If we were a team like Barca who can recycle from there and create a better chance then it'd be ok but we almost inevitably give the ball away 3-4 passes later, and usually in an area where we are much more at risk of a counter-attack.

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Re: Norwich City vs Aston Villa Match Thread.
« Reply #428 on: April 07, 2018, 02:47:03 PM »
Rubbish from both manager and players.  I think Bruce should have been more proactive and made changes when the game was still close at 0-0, or maybe when it was just the 1 goal.  It's always going to be a up hill struggle chasing a team like Norwich when its 2-0 on their own patch. 

He gave them 5 minutes or so to look sharper after half time, and then got Kodja and Grabban ready. He was ready to make the change at 1-0. There were actually 2 stopages in play with Grabban & Kodja ready on the touchline just before it went 2-0.
I'm not defending today overall, but he didn't wait til it was 2-0 before making a change.

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Re: Norwich City vs Aston Villa Match Thread.
« Reply #429 on: April 07, 2018, 03:00:03 PM »
My hope now is that Fulham overtake Cardiff and sneak into second.  I'd fancy playing the Bluebirds more in the play-offs than Fulham right now.
Its a close call who would be the less difficult game, and it also means getting to the final, but I agree, Cardiff might be the better bet.
It would help if we could beat them on Tuesday........ ::)

 


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