It's back to Carrow Road on Saturday for our latest home game! We currently sit in 12th in the standings on 44 points from 33 games (W11 D 11 L11) and take on 19th placed Stoke. Our WLD symmetry does indeed smack of a mid table specialist (see Pinkun for more on this tale of the tape) City are 4 points off the play offs, while Stoke seek to consolidate "mid bottom" of the table safety. Stoke won 3-1 last time out, scoring 3 in the last third of their home encounter vs Swansea City are on an eight-game run against the Potters, with 5 wins and 3 draws since a 1-0 defeat in October 2018 when Farke was still in the dugout. Stoke are have won none of their last 9 away games, losing 5 with 3 draws since the third week of November. Hoping for a Hoffball Home hurrah against the Potters!
Great thread China. It's an important game after our recent stuttering. JHT has said Núñez will play but McLean and Jurasek are out. Córdoba will take Doyle's place after his 2 match suspension.
Squad update *Updated after Press Conference* (RW) Hernandez - IN? - Slight knee issue - Resumed light training last week and wasn't mentioned in todays press conference (CM) Nunez - IN - Has been training all week (RW) Jurasek - OUT - 1 week - Slight thigh issue, should be out for a few days then return to training next week. Trying to minimise risk. (CM) Mclean - OUT - 1 week - Has an infection, targeting a return for Blackburn (CM) Marcondes - OUT - 1 week - has been playing with a hip injury, targeting a return for Blackburn (CM) Forson - OUT - 2-3 weeks - knee knock - hopefully back to training next week (CM) Forsyth - OUT - 3-4 weeks - knee injury - Had 3rd injection this week, couple of weeks away from light training (CM) Gibbs - OUT - 3-4 weeks - hamstring injury, couple of weeks away from light training (RW) Springett - OUT - 12 weeks - back injury - re-occurrence (GK) Mair - OUT - Returned to the club after breaking his finger.
Can we do it on a cold, rainy, Winters night in Stoke, probably not. Can we do it on a mild, Winters day at Carrow Road, I'm a little more positive!
Weird that Borja is still top scorers despite not scoring for months . Anyone remember what date he scored his last goal ?
30th November in a 4-2 win against Luton. He’s gone 10 games (that’s he’s played in) without a goal now.
McLean being out feels like bad news. Instinctively I would guess our points per game without him is lower than when we have him in the squad.
Agree, although we missed both Sargent and Sainz, when they were unavailable, McLean is definitely a bigger loss . He controls the game from his central positioning, unfortunately we have no one else with his overall ability
Kenny has been a terrific servant for the club , but we need to be looking at someone to take his spot in the side he'll probably leave next season
Sainz not looking confident in front of goal today, a few occasions where he has passed when he would normally shoot. And one where he seemed too worried about the keeper to being the ball under cintrol
