Leeds did well to get a draw in the end. Out-muscled, and pressed relentlessly into mistakes. Watford appear to be making progress under Cleverley.
Third top vs 3rd bottom in the form table over 6 games on Monday (probably clutching at straws), we'll have to play better, but there hasn't been a better time to play them. It's actually a decent time for me to watch it as well.
More praise for Hughes on set pieces: "Only Cardiff have scored more goals from set pieces than the Canaries this season. McCallum was at the heart of the second strike - and praised City coach Andrew Hughes for his work on that specific area of their game. "We spend quite a lot of time on it. said. Hughesy (Andrew Hughes) is the main guy, so he gets all the credit for it, but we still have to put it in action on the pitch. We have to keep practising. With the games coming thick and fast, we have to work on them on and off the pitch. We have to change it up because teams watch us and know that we need to change it up. I think Hughesy could be running out of ideas towards the end of the season. It says a lot about the work we all put into it. I'm really frustrated it's gone off the defender because I wanted the goal but I'll take the assist." https://www.pinkun.com/sport/norwic...y-2-1-plymouth-argyle-sam-mccallums-reaction/
Most of my information and viewing of English football comes from Sky Sports. Yesterday morning I thought we had no chance of hanging on to 6th spot because I couldn't see us getting anything against Leicester, Ipswich or Preston. Later in the day I watched the games involving Leicester and Ipswich and have now changed my mind. Leicester were awful. They couldn't string two passes together, finish or deal with a ball ' over the top ' due to lack of speed in the back four. Ipswich were well organised defensively but apart from that were bang average. If Leicester and Ipswich play as they did yesterday and we play well - two very big ifs - we could get 4 points from those two games and give ourselves a fighting chance.
I heard Goreham, during the late commentary by Radio Norfolk - strange commentary , Norwich, then Plymouth, then back to Norwich - after Sarge scored he mentioned that it was the ninth successive home game that he had scored in. In which he took part in of course. Quite a record it so.
It's actually 9 goals in the last 8 home games back to Southampton on January 1st, which is when he returned from injury. He's also scored 2 goals in the 6 away games he's played in since then. That's 14 goals in the 19 games he's played in this season (two of which he was a late substitute), including the 3 goals in 5 games at the beginning of the season. The average time on the pitch for each of his 14 goals was 91 minutes.
Yes, measured by goals per 90, Sargent is head and shoulders above the league's other leading scorers, apart from Jamie Vardy (0.89 against Josh's 0.99). In comparison, Szmodics, who leads the table in terms of goals scored (21 against Josh's 14), has a goals per 90 of 0.58.
Vardy is now 37 and has started 13 games and come on as sub 14 times. We may well see him as a sub after he played 70 minutes at Bristol in a losing cause three days previous, though they have plenty of other impressive attacking threats in Daka, Fatawu, Dewsbury-Hall and Mavididi.
Vardy is the only one with penalty goals in his total (13 goals scored, of which 4 are penalties). I don't think he "won" all the penalties himself though
