AFC Bournemouth v Norwich City

billythekid

billythekid

UTC Legend
Two Relegated Sides Meet

After another visit to the Blue side of Manchester and another 2-1 defeat. Again our side put in a good performance this time in the League Cup against the holders for the last three seasons. Jason Tindall fielded a mixed side of younger fringe players with more experienced first team players. Our next game is back to the nitty gritty of league football.

We meet one of the sides that were relegated from the Premier League with ourselves. Norwich City were relegated in the last place but have a very good record of bouncing back up into the top league in recent years, but unable to retain their place for more than one season. This game will again take place behind closed doors at Dean Court on Sunday at 4 pm.

They still have the same manager in spite of being relegated in bottom place from the Premier League. Daniel Farke joined the Canaries in the 2017-18 season and his record to date is W 56, D 38, L 55, so hopefully our team can equal up the win and lose column! They started off life back in the Championship with a 0-1 away win at Huddersfield. In their next game at home at Carrow Road they drew 2-2 with Preston.

They have been busy in bringing new players into their club during the Summer transfer window. Among those signed, striker Jordan Hugill from West Ham for an undisclosed fee. Midfielder Kieran Dowell from Everton for an undisclosed fee. Midfielder Przemyslaw Placheta from Slask Wroclaw for £2.7 million. Midfielder Jacob Sorensen from Esbjerg undisclosed fee. Defender Bali Mumba from Sunderland another undisclosed fee. Also they haves some free and loan signings. Going out the door was Jamal Lewis who signed for Newcastle United.

Our last meeting against Norwich City at Dean Court was back in October when the game ended 0-0. Our most recent meeting was at Carrow Road in January this year, the Canaries winning 1-0, after Pukki scored from the spot. This was after Steve Cook had made a finger tip save to keep the ball from going into the net, unfortunately he wasn’t in goal and received a red card in the first half of the game. His wasn’t the only dismissal, in the second half the Norwich player Godfrey was sent off.

In all our home games in the leagues against Norwich, AFCB have W 9, D 8, L 11. In all competitions, AFCB have W 19, D 16, L 24.

AFCB Team News
Lloyd Kelly went off at the Manchester City game with a hamstring problem. No news yet on Josh King, who wasn’t in the squad on Thursday night. Otherwise no new injury problems mentioned. Jason Tindall will probably revert back to his usual league lineup for the league game. Though some of the players against City must have given him food thought.

AFCB Player To Watch
After the form he showed against Manchester City, David Brooks playing in the number 10 role was our playmaker and he seemed to have a good understanding with Sam Surridge. Would be good to see those play against Norwich City. But Jason will probably bring Dominic Solanke back.

Norwich C Team News
Emi Buendia has been out with an injury, Kieran Dowell has had surgery on his ankle ligament. Marco Stiepermann has been out with a back problem.

Norwich C Player To Watch
Teemu Pukki scored 11 goals in the Premier League last season, but the season before he was prolific in the Championship scoring 29 goals. Todd Cantwell another Player to keep an eye on.
 
...assuming that Stanislas, Kelly and Rico unfit, (and King on his sofa) and Mepham is back? then I reckon JT will go with:

Begovic

Stacey
Cook
Mepham
Smith

Danjuma
Lerma
Gosling
Brooks

Solanke
Surridge

benchers; Travers/Oborforh/Zemura/Billing/L Cook/Kilkenny/Simpson
 
As we wait to hear on new signings, our opponents on Sunday have already been busy and below is who they have signed, linked with etc.

It seems they wasted no time in planning before they were relegated.


It’s three weeks until transfer deadline day but sporting director Stuart Webber wasted no time in getting incoming business completed this summer, as a host of talent was linked with Norwich City as Premier League relegation was confirmed.

https://www.pinkun.com/norwich-city/city-cast-transfer-net-far-and-wide-1-6854245
 
Had a little look at their forum and they're not a happy camp. It sounds like some of their players aren't stepping up. Sounds familiar.
 
canadiancherry said:
To be fair to us, Norwich knew they were getting relegated months before we did.
Click to expand...

Not criticising our club.

We have seen by some of the performances from our younger fringe players that we have got talent at our club coming through.

So our club will only sign people not just to make up the numbers, but to improve/be as good to cover positions where we are lacking.
 
billythekid said:
Not criticising our club.

We have seen by some of the performances from our younger fringe players that we have got talent at our club coming through.

So our club will only sign people not just to make up the numbers, but to improve/be as good to cover positions where we are lacking.
Click to expand...
Are you Max Denims PR spokesperson?
 
billythekid said:
Not criticising our club.

We have seen by some of the performances from our younger fringe players that we have got talent at our club coming through.

So our club will only sign people not just to make up the numbers, but to improve/be as good to cover positions where we are lacking.
Click to expand...
Well, I agree that any new signings have to be better than our current youth reserves.
And this turns out to be a taller order than we might have thought.
 
I would like to see Brooks behind Surridge for at least some of the game. Thought they looked like they could form a good little partnership when they played v MC . It feels a long time since we’ve had a genuine partnership up top.
 
Topfarrier said:
You're not going to mention that bloody diamond again are you?...:shake:
Click to expand...
Not tonight, can see there's such a lack of belief in our players that people keep advocating the faux 3-4-3 which becomes 5-2-3 (hence the arrows going back). People then wonder why we get over-run in midfield and give the ball away cheaply.

Assuming Norwich play 4-2-3-1, then 3 at the back gets messy with no-one knowing who to pick up the one, the midfield still gets over-run, the 'wingbacks' get pushed back and they can counter attack us if we get caught forward. (Norwich will also have learned from Man City's same formation Thursday when our more defensive 3-5-2 couldn't get possession and their single striker exploited the gaps between 3 CBs)

Probably calls for 4-4-2 with Sam and Dom up top, but allowing Brooks and Danjuma to occasionally abandon the wings to create overloads or sit in the hole to expose their weaknesses, knowing we have a good shape at the back when we lose ball, even if one FB overlaps. With L Cook alongside Lerma we have then 4 attackers and at least one midfielder attempting to pick them out. Still risks, but we are at home for what that's worth and should set up more offensively.

To win this division requires flexibility of selection to keep squad fit and flexibility of formation to avoid mis-matches.
 
ChampagneCherry said:
Not tonight, can see there's such a lack of belief in our players that people keep advocating the faux 3-4-3 which becomes 5-2-3 (hence the arrows going back). People then wonder why we get over-run in midfield and give the ball away cheaply.

Assuming Norwich play 4-2-3-1, then 3 at the back gets messy with no-one knowing who to pick up the one, the midfield still gets over-run, the 'wingbacks' get pushed back and they can counter attack us if we get caught forward. (Norwich will also have learned from Man City's same formation Thursday when our more defensive 3-5-2 couldn't get possession and their single striker exploited the gaps between 3 CBs)

Probably calls for 4-4-2 with Sam and Dom up top, but allowing Brooks and Danjuma to occasionally abandon the wings to create overloads or sit in the hole to expose their weaknesses, knowing we have a good shape at the back when we lose ball, even if one FB overlaps. With L Cook alongside Lerma we have then 4 attackers and at least one midfielder attempting to pick them out. Still risks, but we are at home for what that's worth and should set up more offensively.

To win this division requires flexibility of selection to keep squad fit and flexibility of formation to avoid mis-matches.
Click to expand...


For a start It's not a faux 343 ....it's supposed to revert to 523 when we defend and vice versa when we attack that's the strength of the system not a weakness.....i don't think anyone is advocating it either tbf.....it's just the system we think JT will play;.....by all means keep suggesting a funky system that has Zemura at CB and no wingbacks if you like but you must know that it's never going to be attempted in the English game.... not by JT.....Pep .....Klopp or any other manager that hasn't lost his marbles.........The bit about Lewis Cook picking out our attackers did make me laugh though ....:grinning:..... the 442 idea was fantastic btw....i don't know why we haven't tried it before.....
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

;