Match Day Thread Derby County vs Norwich City Tuesday 21st October 2025 19:45

Derby effectively starting with 4 strikers

 

I know we've got injury problems but that feels like a truly terrible solution if that's what he's gone for. 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 only has McLean playing out of position, in a role he's covered before.

 

And an interesting sub-plot in the form of Josh Sargent and Patrick Agyemang vying to catch Pochettino's eye as he mulls over the USNMT World Cup squad. Both have 5 international goals to their name, but Agyemang's 5 have all come in the current year, his break through year.

 

He needs to take care of it. He doesn't want it to become chronic.

 

I said last game was a must win , lose this & i doubt there are many of us that can argue Manning & perhaps his boss are capable of running the team .

Knapper & his latest coach are pretty much dead men walking .

The points on the board would be embarrassing if we were in the Premier league at this level it's depressing & Carrow road has become a mortuary

 

Can't Mattsson play behind Sargent. That could leave Gibbs and Topich at 6 & 8.

 

Morning all (from Tasmania) OTBC...will be driving to a work conference in half an hour so will see the result when i arrive in Launceston in a couple of hours. Come on City!

 

I will get fawa on, but I have no real enthusiasm for this tonight, and I will go in with minimal expectations

 

Oh no Carlton Moris starts

 

Early chance, should be 1 up.

 

Who missed it?

 

Gibbs

 

Several times now ref has given fouls against Makama for simply standing his ground

 

All Norwich but still don't look like scoring

 

Derby must be the worst team I have seen in the Championship for a good few years.

 

But we still can’t score against them.

 

There are two interpretations to this match:

1) An utterly dominant in possession Norwich City, unfortunately unable to find a way through resolute and brave defending, with several choice blocks

2) A woeful Derby team of dubious quality and even less confidence being gifted a training session by a static Norwich City team with players seemingly determined to play the unlikely percentages ball over improving the ball position, barely able to understand where their teammates are moving (on the rare occasion they move much off the ball).


I am very much seeing the latter. We have only one player (McLean) who is capable of passing with accuracy at range and thereby finding Sargent (who is otherwise so isolated as to be un-findable). Mattsson can and does play a wonderful slide rule pass, but is let down by Stacey’s breathless endeavour and awful decision making. Makama seems unable to control the ball, meaning our right-hand-side attack is mainly hoof the ball and hope. Stacey makes good runs, but then cannot pick out a man. And it’s not as if we even look that solid defensively again…

 

Corect. It does not make us look especially good, worryingly

 

Impressive considering you’ve watched us for the last 10 games

 

Don't you have auto-corect?