Match Day Thread Carabao Cup, Southern Section Rd 2,Norwich City v Southampton, Tues 26th August ko 19.45

We play like we haven't touched a football in months.

Note to Manning: drill drill drill!

 

Agreed I don’t believe the players’ touches and passing are this bad if they actually practiced

 

Three home matches, 3 home defeats. What is wrong in the state of Carrow Road? Has Manning got a cunning plan?

 

Schwartau showed some really heavy touches in that second half

 

Started off well in that second half but faded really badly into a poor half.

There seemed to be a lack of forward movement to free themselves of their markers, resulting in the ball being passed around at the back due to lack of options and ending with Grimshaw smashing hopeful long balls

 

Positives:
Good minutes for Gibbs, Jurasek, Schwartau and Kvistgaarden.
Darling and Topic are good

 

English manager takes over......football quality plummets.

This club has been ruined by Knapper. Must have spent well over £30 million, two managers, and we have a team in which it's best players are the ones who were here before he joined.

And he caps it all with this unimaginative hire.

I hope Attanasio see's the light and fires him when this comes to its inevitable conclusion, hes pissed his money away.

 

We were done by their more effective pressing and passing. McConville made a good case for the fourth CB option rather than going out on loan. Schlupp played well and there were some flashes of what will come with Kvistgaarden but it certainly showed the trouble we'd be in without Sargent. Three more days to go.

 

I’m not convinced all the player signings are bad or that the money will turn out to have been wasted. I actually see some good players in there with the right system and coach. But otherwise, yep.

 

I think our squad is decent - just need organising and instructions to play it forward rather than negative back passes which keep playing us into trouble

 

We seem to get worse the longer a game goes on. Very few players seem match fit. Schlupp played better in the first half, but looked well off the pace in the second. It's almost like we didn't have a preseason. Second half was particularly poor, we lacked any real penetration and for much of the time we looked like a Thorup team. The rest of the time we just lumped it forward. Loads of poor first touches and passes and plenty of poor individual decisions.

Would help if some players could play the ball forward.

Still early days, doesn't help that most of our players who aren't performing / playing to their full potential arrived at the club before Manning.

 

Would help if some players could play- full stop. It was not just diabolical, it was completely disheartening.