They need to make some key signings and keep their better players. I'm not convinced that will happen. Skipp's been important to them and we'll probably include him in our squad, rather than loaning him back. Buendia, Cantwell and Aarons are all going to have plenty of other options, in my opinion.
The teams who get promoted and survive are usually set up to defend. Few can play like Norwich and expect to get enough points in the PL. This team is Norwich 2019 2.0. They will have to be a lot more pragmatic next time if they want to avoid promotion in 2023.
That may depend upon the quality of their signings and those of the clubs that they'll be competing with. Leeds certainly don't defend and they've been comfortable all season, although they've struggled against the better teams. Norwich don't have their workrate or as good a manager, of course. They'll find it tough. Loans could be key.
Leeds are a bit of an enigma. They are a bigger club too, which means they can probably do a better job of hanging on to their better players. Sky have decreed that Norwich will spend all eternity in the dozen places between 15th in the PL and 6th in the Championship. I agree loans could be the key to giving them the stability and nouse needed to pick up the hard points they missed out on last year
WBA, Fulham, Norwich, Watford - and probably a few others- are destined to spend their Sky days yo-yoing between the top two divisions. A truly bi-polar ride for their fans
35 year old Modric and 31 year old Kroos still absolutely bossing those in their path. Incredible players.
Toni Kroos is just a great player slightly under-rated in my opinion he can do everything that you want a midfielder to do you could drop him into any team in the world and he would improve them - and Modric is just a genius
Is Modric still putting in a shift on the pitch all game, or do Madrid have the likes of an Ossie + Paul Allen in their MF that allows him to be more of a Hoddle in terms of work rate ??
He was tackling back on 92 mins if that gives an answer. They do have Casemiro for primarily the dirty work but both Modric and Kroos were just a cut above last night. Neither look like they need to be considering retirement any time soon.
Shocking work from the officials. The goalline techs working though, if you notice the ref's watch. I get that the ref can **** it up, but how does that decision stand? He blew too early, so you use VAR and send off Ederson. He commits the foul and he's preventing a goalscoring opportunity, clearly.
Truly comical officiating. At least he had the decency to overturn the equally comical decision to award City a penalty, although Emre Can's yellow card for dissent in that incident wasn't overturned, which I found strange. Why was that?
