MATCH REPORT

A return to a blustery Carrow Road. For me, completely alien, sitting as I am in Dubai watching the game on beIN Sports with Arabic commentary replacing the usual dulcet tones of Chris Goreham. From the start, it looked like Bristol came to play a game of football, rather than the 10 men behind the […]

A New Year, and an entertaining contest at Carrow Road topped by a wonderful Emi Buendia goal. Long may it continue.  Tim Krul made his long-anticipated return from injury after Michael McGovern was effectively ruled out for the rest of the season. Ben Gibson replaced Christoph Zimmermann in defence.  Barnsley started in an aggressive and energetic manner. A […]

It was almost as if City were trying to distill a whole 12 months of football into a single 90 minutes at Carrow Road tonight.  Dominant in possession, an injury to a crucial player, marginal decisions going against them, and a frustrating concession out of nothing. Daniel Farke made just the one change, preferring Mario […]

Christmas is a time of great traditions. The Queen’s speech, turkey and all the trimmings, and a Boxing Day defeat for Norwich City.  And this year it never felt as though it was going to be any different.  Watford, with another new manager, began the game in the unfashionable 4-4-2 formation, Troy Deeney and Andre […]

It gets difficult to write about this current Norwich side. For opposition managers, they present an almost unplayable proposition. That is not to say that they will blow any team away, more that whatever tactics are employed against them, they possess the nous to find a way to win.  In the first half, Cardiff stood off […]

The unrelenting juggernaut that is the Championship continued again last night, and ended with the Canaries firmly in the driving seat.  The game began with City pressing extremely high up the pitch; three Norwich attackers in the penalty area at one point. Daniel Farke had obviously seen something in his preparation and three times in quick […]

Last week I reported on the efforts of Tony Pulis’ team to suffocate Norwich. This week the free scoring Blackburn tried a different tack, but the result was the same.  Daniel Farke elected to bring Alex Tettey into the team that won in midweek and deploy Mario Vrancic further up the pitch, in place of […]

The Tony Pulis bus rolled into Carrow Road this afternoon and parked itself obdurately in NR1.  Pulis deployed what has become the go-to playbook for visitors this season.  Pack the box with players. Tick.  Frustrate Buendia. Tick.  Hit on the break. Tick.  Wednesday played with five across the back, and three more players only yards […]

The footballing gods seem to have been against Norwich City for quite some time now.  Last night was the time that they finally got their revenge.  The injury crisis has been well documented over the last few weeks and on the back of a ten-match unbeaten run, it was only a matter of time before […]

The long list of casualties reeled out by Daniel Farke at his pre-match news conference was never going to win any prizes for the shock of the week.  Quite how deep he would have to plunge into the depths of City’s young talent was, perhaps, the deciding factor at Carrow Road.  Norwich started in full […]

It’s never a good sign when all of the talk before a game is over who is not playing, and the net result of a crazy, crazy night at Stoke is that this is likely to continue for a few more weeks yet.  As expected Lukas Rupp didn’t make the starting XI, but Daniel Farke […]