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MATCH REPORT

MATCH REPORT: City 2, Everton 1

16th January 2022 By James Colman 8 Comments

So admit it, you forgot what it feels like! I walked across the streets of New York, on my way to a rendezvous with the New York Canaries in the Football factory, with a feeling of trepidation.  Was there any conceivable way that the result would be anything other than another defeat? The team selection […]

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MATCH REPORT: West Ham 2, City 0

13th January 2022 By Samuel Seaman 5 Comments

City were dealt yet another blow in the survival stakes last night, losing 2-0 to a comfortable West Ham United at the London Stadium. There was a cautious air of optimism among the travelling Norwich fans after they had seen a 1-0 win over Charlton on Sunday, but the Hammers’ bright start reminded them what […]

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MATCH REPORT: Palace 3, City 0

29th December 2021 By James Colman 9 Comments

When the team sheet landed at 2 o’clock, it had the feel of a selection made from the last players standing.  6 changes from the rout on boxing day, no Teemu Pukki on the sheet, two goalkeepers and one sub short on the bench. I feared the worst. For the opening minutes, City looked bright. Within […]

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MATCH REPORT: City 0, Aston Villa 2

15th December 2021 By James Colman 1 Comment

I’ll start tonight’s match report by listing the meaningful efforts on goal by City. Now for the rest of the game. As performances go, it is easy to exhaust the list of superlatives to describe how awful the first half.  Shapeless, listless, languid.  I could go on.  From the kickoff, Villa looked like a side […]

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MATCH REPORT: City 0, Man Utd 1

12th December 2021 By James Colman 3 Comments

Trepidation.  That was the overriding emotion of a day where for once, I wasn’t counting the minutes until kick-off. Quite the opposite in fact.  The news from the Friday press conference was hardly encouraging, with cagey references to an indeterminate number of players awaiting PR results. Man Utd, rejuvenated under a new manager. It had […]

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MATCH REPORT: Spurs 3 City 0

6th December 2021 By James Colman 3 Comments

Ever had that recurring nightmare? You know the one, where everything is in slow motion and no matter what you do, whenever you have the dream, you cannot affect the outcome. The one that happens every weekend. Daniel Farke struggled to find the right balance between defensive solidity and attacking potency in the latter days […]

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MATCH REPORT: First-team full-backs in focus for impressive City Under-23s

30th November 2021 By Samuel Seaman Leave a Comment

If Dean Smith’s Monday morning reminder of Ozan Kabak, Jacob Sorensen and Pierre Lees-Melou wasn’t enough to highlight the strength in depth at Carrow Road, Bali Mumba’s excellent goal for Norwich City’s under-23s certainly was. As if giving his new boss a less-than-subtle nudge, the City number 26 ignited a contest that ended up being […]

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MATCH REPORT: City 0, Wolves 0

28th November 2021 By James Colman 3 Comments

Ten days into the Dean Smith regime, for me, his second team selection was always going to be more telling than his first. Would the likes of Todd Cantwell have suitably impressed the new man in a week on the pitches of Colney? Does Hanley keep his place in defence? The questions were answered and […]

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WOLVES PREVIEW – Lage and Smith both hoping for more of the same

26th November 2021 By Andy Head 3 Comments

The last match preview I wrote was pre-Chelsea so apologies if I’m jinxing us. If we get hit for seven on Saturday feel free to blame me. If the task facing us at Stamford Bridge was gargantuan, Wolves at home is still sizeable. They’re not sixth in the table for no reason. Away from Molineux, […]

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MATCH REPORT: City make it two wins on the bounce as Smith kicks off with a win

21st November 2021 By James Colman 3 Comments

So much seemed to have changed since I sat down to pen my words on the City victory at Brentford. Daniel Farke gone. Dean Smith in. Todd Cantwell and Billy Gilmour in from the wilderness and a feeling of cautious, careful optimism around Carrow Road. The feeling lasted precisely three minutes. Other than a brief moment where […]

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MATCH REPORT: Events aplenty since but on the green stuff, a first win for City!

7th November 2021 By James Colman 1 Comment

[James wrote this piece prior to last night’s news – Ed] The players formed up in the centre circle. The crowd fell silent and as the trumpeter sounded the last post, I cannot have been the only Canary fan wondering if this would indeed be the last post for Daniel Farke. Fear not. Perhaps buoyed by […]

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MATCH REPORT: Another day, another defeat, this time by an ordinary Leeds

1st November 2021 By James Colman 9 Comments

After the dismal performance last week, everyone connected with Norwich was expecting both a reaction from the players and changes to the team. They got both but ultimately City were left with exactly the same. Nil points. When the team broke, there was something resembling incredulity from many City fans, with what looked like a back […]

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MATCH REPORT: Things turn ugly for City as they get hit for seven at Stamford Bridge

23rd October 2021 By James Colman 24 Comments

As football matches go, this was a tough a watch as you will ever get as a City fan.  Few expected Norwich to get anything from this game, but equally few could have predicted such abject misery. City were unchanged, the game plan was clear. Keep it tight. Be tough to break down. Don’t concede […]

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MATCH REPORT: A point and another clean sheet for City but a chance missed for three

17th October 2021 By James Colman 3 Comments

There was a sense of cautious hope, some may even say optimism going into this game. Farke resisted the clamour for the darling of the national media, Billy Gilmour, to be included and elected to play an unchanged side, apparently citing the lack of time that the squad had had together since the last game.  The […]

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MATCH REPORT: Finally a point on the board for City with a Turf Moor clean sheet

3rd October 2021 By James Colman 2 Comments

Ignore the noise is the Farke mantra. It is fortunate that he is able to heed his own advice. The noise this week told him that so far this season he had made too many changes, or that he needed to make sweeping changes, switch to 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 or even 4-4-2.  In the end, Farke […]

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MATCH REPORT: West Brom take advantage of City’s error-prone Under-23s

28th September 2021 By Samuel Seaman Leave a Comment

City’s Under-23s were beaten 5-2 by West Bromwich Albion at The Walks on Monday night, a series of defensive errors cancelling out goals by Jon Rowe and Tom Dickson-Peters for the home side. The young Canaries started well and had their visitors on the back foot from the off, Rowe forcing a good stop from […]

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MATCH REPORT: An all too familiar script, and all too familiar outcome at Goodison

26th September 2021 By James Colman 5 Comments

Cut. Copy. Paste.  From any of the games from two years ago. An all too familiar script, and all too familiar outcome. Daniel Farke retained the formation from the midweek game with Liverpool, Kabak coming in for Omobamidele, Williams in for Giannoulis.  But it was immediately obvious that this was far more a 5-3-2 than […]

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MATCH REPORT: Too easy for Liverpool. “Porous at the back. Blunt up front”

22nd September 2021 By James Colman 7 Comments

Given that Daniel Farke had barely a day to work with his players since the capitulation to Watford, it should come as no surprise to any Canary fan that, once again, there was a familiar theme to this defeat. The Sky commentator summed it up in eight words. Too porous at the back. Too blunt up front. […]

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Another Emirates disappointment as City succumb to the inevitable messy goal

12th September 2021 By James Colman 19 Comments

So that’s it.  The extended pre-season is over. It’s down to the real games next week against Watford. Daniel Farke has a history of transformation in the post-international break period.  Perhaps it was expecting a bit much for him to pull off the same trick this time, particularly with several players away on extended international duty […]

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MATCH REPORT: Pukki off the mark but two defensive ricks and City lose again

29th August 2021 By James Colman 4 Comments

So finally a chance to watch a match ‘live’. I was working on opening day, was half comatose with jet lag for the Man City game although, given the result, that seems to have been an advantage. That loss will be no more relevant to the Canaries’ final position than the subsequent cup win against Bournemouth. […]

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stencfc Steve @stencfc ·
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Watching City View, it feels like Omobamidele is the central figure in this team now. He’s the emotional leader, the one who goes and gets involved in celebrations. He just seems at home I’m at this level now. #ncfc

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tommykerrison Thomas @tommykerrison ·
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Massive mistake no CB coming in #ncfc

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tobynaulls7 Toby @tobynaulls7 ·
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Turns out Cantwell was inspired by pukki’s hair #ncfc

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mark_woodroffe Canary Mark @mark_woodroffe ·
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After watching the H’field game back again it seems absurd that Sinani didn’t feature for #NCFC v Hull. It’s looking increasingly absurd too that he wasn’t part of the squad last season; he looks that good. In fact it might be utterly absurd if we don’t build the team around him

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benncfc_ Ben @benncfc_ ·
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Long shot, anyone driving from Peterborough ish way for Birmingham away who could give me a lift? #ncfc @NcfcSpareTicket

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