Match Day Thread Norwich v Hull City

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City to win?

  • Hull City

  • Norwich City

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Seen a few people suggest going to a back 3 but that makes no sense to me. You play a back 3 if you can't defend, but we can defend yet we struggle going forwards so I don't see how removing an attacking player will help us look better.

We just need better forwards as we've said all summer
 
Seen a few people suggest going to a back 3 but that makes no sense to me. You play a back 3 if you can't defend, but we can defend yet we struggle going forwards so I don't see how removing an attacking player will help us look better.

We just need better forwards as we've said all summer
you dont play a back three because you can't defend
you play two wing backs if you struggle going forwards
 
Seen a few people suggest going to a back 3 but that makes no sense to me. You play a back 3 if you can't defend, but we can defend yet we struggle going forwards so I don't see how removing an attacking player will help us look better.

We just need better forwards as we've said all summer

I think it would've suited us to go to 3 at the back in this specific game as we had limited options on the wing. If Ally, Lokilo and Vaughan are fit and firing then I don't think 3ATB works, or like you say if we had better options in that area. But shoehorning Traore onto the wing was a bit of a disaster.

With what was available, I think 3ATB was a better solution over what we ended up playing with, there would certainly be fewer square pegs in round holes.
 
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A back 5 works because the manager like playing central midfielders on the wing and we look absolutely ****e attacking as a consequence. I am not much of a fan of going 5 at the back at all but it’s going to be a much better solution than Traore and Vaughan on the wings and Tufan up front in a 4-4-2.
 
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if more than 10 penalties each side are needed do they start again or does an England player take a second?
 
A back 5 works because the manager like playing central midfielders on the wing and we look absolutely ****e attacking as a consequence. I am not much of a fan of going 5 at the back at all but it’s going to be a much better solution than Traore and Vaughan on the wings and Tufan up front in a 4-4-2.
It's only 5 at the back when defending
 
Seen a few people suggest going to a back 3 but that makes no sense to me. You play a back 3 if you can't defend, but we can defend yet we struggle going forwards so I don't see how removing an attacking player will help us look better.

We just need better forwards as we've said all summer
Worked ok here for brucey
 
With another defender behind you though, our midfield of Smallwood and Slater never got steamrolled with 5 at the back

Richie is the exact type of player we need though and if he was still at the club, he'd be starting.

Worked ok here for brucey

We had 2 unbelievable wings backs in Brady and Elmo for this level and grit in midfield with Meyler. We don't have any of that now
 
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It was obviously gutting to lose to a last minute goal, but there's little point in moaning about not having VAR for the corner, if there was VAR they'd have had a penalty for the Coyle handball.

Seri, Slater and Tufan all had an uncharacteristically poor game and that's obviously not going to happen every week, so the reactions on here (and elsewhere) are a tad over the top.

Traore is wasted on the right wing, I thought that was fairly obvious from the Nantes game and I was surprised to see him played there again.

The only criticism I think is fair, is that fact that it clearly wasn't working and changes should have been made earlier.
 
I do get it though as it's a catalogue of reffing **** ups that have cost us. There are 3 reasons that goal should've been ruled out and when you're having a tough day you need decisions to be correct. I don't think any of them are difficult decisions either.
 
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I am 99% certain if someone was to do a bit of trig from that still you would be able to work out that the ball is still over the line, a lot more than this example.

Either way it’s very marginal and hardly so clear that everyone in the stadium knows it’s out.

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