Norwich v Aston Villa pre-match thread

[PeterWithe]

I remember Gabby scoring a winner there and earning me a shit load of money when I had a bet on games.

[sid1964]

I remember going there when SGT was manager and we drew 2-2 - from what I remember McInally scored at least 1?

Tomorrow going for another score draw 1-1

[gpbarr]

We have played three lost three away, they have played and beat Man City at home. Not sure why all the optimism.

2-0 defeat for me

[Risso]

We have played three lost three away, they have played and beat Man City at home. Not sure why all the optimism.

2-0 defeat for me

That City win came amongst three consecutive 2-0 losses for them though.  Those losses were all away, but it shows that they're not in great form.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

We have played three lost three away, they have played and beat Man City at home. Not sure why all the optimism.

2-0 defeat for me

Norwich have up to 10 (TEN) players unavailable due to injury. As I said earlier in the week, if we can't beat them on Saturday we may as well give up.

3-0 Villa

[AsTallAsLions]

We have played three lost three away, they have played and beat Man City at home. Not sure why all the optimism.

2-0 defeat for me

Norwich have up to 10 (TEN) players unavailable due to injury. As I said earlier in the week, if we can't beat them on Saturday we may as well give up.

3-0 Villa

They had a rake of injuries for the game in which they beat City.

It would appear their strength in depth is of a higher quality than ours.

[Brend'Watkins]

We will only lose if we make the sort of errors we have been.  Play like we did V Burnley but tighten up at the back and we'll win.

[Smithy]

People keep going on about Norwich's Man City win, as if they played them off the park - City had 70% of the possession and 25 shots.  Norwich had 3 shots on target and scored all of them.  19 times out of 20 they lose that game.  It's still a brilliant result for a newly promoted side, obviously, and I'd love us to do something similar when we play them, but let's not pretend it means Norwich are some sort of unbeatable force when playing at Carrow road.

2-1 win.

[postal]

they might be down to their 3rd keeper, among other injuries. Even if Pukki was out ( and he's not), they do have other goals in them and Farke will line them up to still be effective

The downside of having to bring in players to cover, they might not be match fit.

We need to win, and its a game that we can win, if the Management apply some sensible game management

Oh and dont start with Wesley.

Also, the beeb have given a factually correct, but nonsense stat: Norwich have lost 19 of the last 20 PL games in which they conceded first.
How is that relevent? 

[lovejoy]

We will only lose if we make the sort of errors we have been.  Play like we did V Burnley but tighten up at the back and we'll win.

These type of predictions are meaningless.

We will win if we “don’t make mistakes/play to our potential etc” just mean the caveat kicks in if we don’t win.

Bottom line is we have been regularly making mistakes giving goals away and also defending too deep if ahead. Our record there is crap and they are a strong home team. How people think a win is the logical result I have no idea.

[Lastfootstamper]

It's football. What's logic got to do with it?

[fbriai]

Who is going to start tomorrow?

I'm guessing:

Heaton
Guilbert
Targett
Engels
Mings
Nakamba
McGinn
Grealish
Hourihane
Trezeguet
Wesley

Although I wouldn't be surprised to see Taylor at left-back and El Ghazi in for Trez.

[postal]

It's football. What's logic got to do with it?

True, its all down to luck.

And you make your own luck, by working hard. You know, like John McGinn does.

[Lastfootstamper]

It's football. What's logic got to do with it?

True, its all down to luck.

And you make your own luck, by working hard. You know, like John McGinn does.

Too right. And I've seen enough of us already to be able to think we're on the cusp of being luckier, as it were. Starting tomorrow.

[AsTallAsLions]

Luck. Hm. Well, history would suggest that luck has been very much against us for a long long time now.

So for those implying that all we're missing right now is a bit of luck... what makes you think that's about to suddenly change in our favour?