If we were to take 4 points from Brentford and Norwich I would have preferred 3 from Brentford and 1 from Norwich. But beggars cant be choosers so its a win against the Canaries then.
From what I saw we were sitting back too deep allowing them to come on to us. We scraped a point, we move forward. Millers next.
Cooper proved tonight that he still has a lot to learn. Bennett should have come on for Naughton. Ayew should have been replaced by Morris In a 3 man midfield against the better teams, I’m not sure that both Grimes and Hourihane can play - we need Smith and Fulton (for control) plus 1 other.
They certainly were on the night & maybe just are anyway. That’s the bit that I struggle with. If they’re a better team full stop, fair enough. But if we limited ourselves tonight, due to the way we were set-up, and/or the fact we didn’t shake anything up as far as a tactical element, to even it up a bit. That’s what disappoints me about as a coaching aspect tonight. We did well to end up with a point..
Feel like we got a point tonight despite Cooper, not because of him. I'm normally a fan, but am genuinely baffled why he didn't feel the need to change things up tonight when it was obvious we were under it from the get go.
My predicta score was blown out of the water because we showed them too much respect. We were the home team but looked very much like the away team in a cup match against a top team...they were good but only when we allowed it. The only time we had bodies in their box we scored....anyway on to the game against thre Millers