Blues 0 Norwich 4
Loads of changes again and BS about how good they are and we must think about that first.
It’s not really BS to say they’re good though 🤷♂️
Le ModThe pitch is awful and Norwich are a 'principled' team who will not change the way they play regardless of the conditions, they will try and play it around the back and into midfield, the pitch will make this difficult, we can steal the ball from them in dangerous areas and create chance
Norwich didn't have any issue with pitch 5 days back and saying "Coventry weren't convincing" is just hiding from the truth, when were Blues last "convincing" at Home, or Away for that matter. People really do need to stop this "it's down to the pitch" rubbish. We've gained 9pts at home all season, Bournemouth & Blackburn have both gained 6pts and both have scored 6 against our 9...if away teams can play on it and in just 4 matches between them get more points and score more goals than Blues have in 15 attempts you really can't blame the pitch for anything other than not opening up and swallowing the whole pathetic circus
Why are we so much better away if it’s just a case of us being shit?
You've misread my post
I said Norwich weren't convincing, not Coventry
And.. I have not blamed the pitch for our struggles, if anything you could argue we should doing ok on it given we are mostly a direct team.
My original point, which you appear to have either ignored or misread, is that this game may suit Blues as we are playing a team that will actively want to pass the ball along the floor but may find the surface difficult to do this on, it wont be a game where Blues have the ball, it'll be a game where we can seize upon the mistakes of the opposition, of which there should be plenty.
Would be more than happy with a point tomorrow night.
Think it will be something like 0-2 and I bet they will play some nice, attacking football on our pitch in the process.
There’s a great piece in the Athletic following Rotherham for the weekend with interviews with their manager before and after the game. If Aitor has read it we’ll piss it. All the information he needs is in there.
Based on an article I read about his time at Boro Karanka will already have an 80 page dossier prepared on Rotherham to scare the crap out of our players or at least bore them to death.
Etheridge
Colin
Dean
JCS
Pedersen
Sunjic
Harper
Gardner
Leko
Hogan
Bela
2-0 Blues
Gardner (2)
Krankie will be mightily pissed off we scored and won at the weekend. It'll be 4 centre halves lay head to foot across the goal line for 90 minutes. Hogan will be dropped for daring to score.
0-3
Rab C NesbittWhy are we so much better away if it’s just a case of us being shit?
OK this should have got through by now but here goes again.
Home - Away team arrives set up to defend and hit us on the counter. We're poor (very poor) at breaking teams down (Wycombe?) and the defence gets caught out by speed time and again.
Away - Teams set up to attack us, we sit deep and try to hit them on the break, we're average (10th in the league for away points)at that but AK refuses to play more than 1 up front meaning if the midfield are pushed back you have 1 player isolated
Put all that together along with pretty much average players and you end up where we are...not only are the tactics awful but the recruitment shows a total lack of ambition
When we’re at home the away team doesn’t set up to defend though imo. We’re not dominating teams and getting caught with counter attacks at all. Especially as the general consensus is that AK doesn’t attack teams and sets up for a 0-0.
It’s far from as simple as you state