City’s conveyor belt of talent keeps producing gems, and Josh Martin is the next in line. Martin’s gradual involvement during Project Restart inferred that more game time would be coming for the ex-Arsenal academy product once City returned to the Championship. His first start came sooner than some might have expected. The large majority of […]
City’s double pivot: Why is it starting to really click?
Oliver Skipp and Lukas Rupp have formed a formidable partnership in the centre of the park. Typically lining up alongside each other in the base of a 4-2-3-1, Daniel Farke utilises them in a double pivot. Skipp, our loan signing from Tottenham, offers more protection for the back four, breaking up the play and seldom […]
Why Mario should remain City’s super-sub… for now
Mario Vrancic has found himself with a somewhat niche role as a super-sub in City’s side. Mario Vrancic is a player who has divided opinion since his arrival from SV Dormstadt 98 in the summer of 2017. Once the poster boy of Farkeball, Vrancic found his first few months in England tough as he was […]
Tactical Analysis: Every goal, for and against… so far
Four games into the campaign, City have accumulated just four points. Despite not being the return they would have hoped for – or expected – the first international break appears to be an apt moment to reflect on every goal City have been involved in thus far. I’ve analysed their defensive and offensive performance, starting […]
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: A tactical look at City’s home defeat by The Rams
Four points from four games for City looks, on the face of it, a poor return but there are some caveats. While Daniel Farke is fully aware of his brief, the frustration reverberating around Colney is understandable due to the unyielding transfer rumours. This evidently has had an impact on his approach to games. In […]
Tactical Analysis: City 2, Preston 2 – Some same old but also something new
Following City’s 2-2 draw with Preston, I’ve tactically analysed the performance, focusing on areas they desperately need to improve upon, as well as aspects of their game that offered positives when compared to recent campaigns. Let’s start with the areas for improvement, and Oliver Skipp’s involvement with Preston’s opener. Skipp’s Slip First and foremost, this […]
Bee Gee’s pivotal in ensuring Norwich’s promotion hope stay alive
Norwich’s centre-half pairing on Ben Godfrey and Ben Gibson could have a massive say in ensuring Norwich gain immediate promotion back to the top-flight. Ensuring last season’s defensive injury crisis doesn’t repeat itself was a key priority in City’s summer recruitment. The momentum gained from storming the Championship was lost instantaneously when a series of […]
From embarrassment to expectation… Webber-style
How Stuart Webber has turned Norwich City from relegated humiliation to Premier League inevitability. Changing the culture has long been a desire of Stuart Webber’s. He adopted a football club rooted in pessimism, one opposed to patient football and demanding of a Premier League platform. A title-winning campaign that nobody anticipated helps, of course. Utilising […]
So, what’s changed in Daniel Farke’s Class of 2020/21?
As City returned to competitive action against Luton Town, Norwich fans were expecting something new against Nathan Jones’ men, but did it come? A first-round EFL Cup fixture without 17 first-team players, especially off the back of a humiliating end to life in the Premier League and a condensed pre-season, was never going to be […]
Five saleable assets? Five potential replacements? But how many will depart?
Succession planning is pivotal for any long-term success. Norwich have five young talents that will attract interest this summer, but who is ready to step in and replace them? Max Aarons, Ben Godfrey, Jamal Lewis, Todd Cantwell and Emi Buendia. City’s five saleable assets whose auction price will all start at £20million. Max has been […]
Farkeball’s in full-flight with Mario
Despite a paucity of minutes, Farke’s footballing philosophy can be fully implemented when the Bosnian is involved. Upon his arrival from Germany, Mario Vrancic appeared to play the game a pace too slow for English football. He struggled to adjust with the lack of time midfield players have on the ball in the EFL and […]
Why Onel has set the tone for the type of wide player City need next season
The Cuban has a completely different skillset to his confreres, and he’s proven he’s exactly what City need going forward. In June 2018, Academy product Josh Murphy was sold to Cardiff City for an estimated £12 million. Six months prior to his departure, Onel Hernandez was recruited form Eintracht Braunschweig for a fifth of the […]
Alex Tettey: More than a water carrier – he stops it from leaking too
As the years go by, Tettey’s performances become all the more pleasing and our reliance on him grows. But to say he merely carries the water is a disservice to the role that he plays. When considering Alex Tettey’s Norwich City career, for many it ends up in the same bracket as Russell Martin’s and […]
No waves in Dereham, but what level can Todd Cantwell surf to?
Another MFW debut incoming… this time from Billy Dunthorne – one half of The Revere End podcast and one quarter of the Norwich based indie band The Revere. Billy takes a close look at one of City’s heroes of 2019/20… As Todd Cantwell is of a similar age to me, I feel compelled to tell […]