Norwich post match thread

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, Guppys Love Child said:

Play with the same format of less EnzoBall control as a trade off for more forward intent like we did today, say for the next two games and I'll put my arm out at the next stop.

 

Without putting a damper on today's much much better and far more entertaining performance...'One swallow doesn't make a summer' and if adopting an Anti-Enzoball approach for the next few matches is what we are served up then I'll beva happy bunny and we stick a far better chance of promotion again.

It was totally enzoball

it was just with more intensity and movement than we’ve seen for a while  

[Bert]

Deserved that. Battered them for large periods of the game. Played well. Good to see. No shortage of confidence here. 

[Leicesterpool]

"Straight back top, Straight back top... Leicester city"

 

That was much more like it, we got our Leicester back today. Mavididi destroyed the Norwich defence today.

[weller54]

29 minutes ago, cruzFOX said:

Hope Leeds and Ipswich lose  now just to put the icing on the cake. Like Jesus Christ we are back from the dead!

.. don't forget Bobby Ewing.

[StanSP]

32 minutes ago, Tazfox said:

You must have been watching a different game to me  

Think you definitely were

 

[Guppys Love Child]

1 minute ago, st albans fox said:

It was totally enzoball

it was just with more intensity and movement than we’ve seen for a while  

Your opinion my friend. ( But it is a forum👍)

 

But sorry I don't agree - and reading others posts they have similar options.

 

With EnzoBall we would have passed the hell out of it around the middle of the park. Today we were so much more forward intent minded.  Noticeably less passing backwards and the most crossfield and searching through balls I've seen us do in a long time. 

[Lionator]

1 minute ago, Guppys Love Child said:

Your opinion my friend. ( But it is a forum👍)

 

But sorry I don't agree - and reading others posts they have similar options.

 

With EnzoBall we would have passed the hell out of it around the middle of the park. Today we were so much more forward intent minded.  Noticeably less passing backwards and the most crossfield and searching through balls I've seen us do in a long time. 

I think that Enzo ball does look like that it’s just that with jeopardy; we revert to that. 

[Guppys Love Child]

32 minutes ago, cityfanlee23 said:

Huge win, intensity, we defended as a team and attacked as a team, we mixed up fast play through the middle, to direct diagonal classy passes to the wings from defence, we also controlled the game for about 15 mins of the 2nd half with our usual ball control style. It’s amazing what we can do when we play pragmatic football. We attacked when we needed to and controlled the ball only when it was necessary when Norwich tried to come back. 
 

Great subs today also. Credit to Enzo but was very annoying to see him trying to get us to slow the game down when we scored. Overall one of the better performances this season. 
 

Drop the system, be pragmatic and we can win this league. 

Yep, got my goat a bit as well.

[Ian Nacho]

Frustrating as if we'd shown an ounce of that over the last 2 months then we'd be more or less home and dry by now. 

[DerbyshireFox]

Fantastic performance. Even bounced back after conceding a poor goal. Good to come from behind to win. Aggression, pressure and faster passing that has been missing for weeks since Leeds. For some reason we eased off it after the second goal, could’ve made it safe before stoppage time. Much needed. If we can keep that attitude and aggression for the rest of the 7 games, we can put automatic promotion firmly in our grasp. 

[North Leeds Fox]

Ricky p and Doyle made a huge difference, as did the subs when they came on. Really felt like the fans helped up the intensity when cheering in the first half when the ball came out to Fatawu and fired up faes into his best performance in a while. Hopefully the same performance levels from now until the end of the season. 

[ozleicester]

Just now, Guppys Love Child said:

Your opinion my friend. ( But it is a forum👍)

 

But sorry I don't agree - and reading others posts they have similar options.

 

With EnzoBall we would have passed the hell out of it around the middle of the park. Today we were so much more forward intent minded.  Noticeably less passing backwards and the most crossfield and searching through balls I've seen us do in a long time. 

It looked to me that we played more long/diagonal balls this game than the rest of the season combined, NOT hoofball, just fast intentional attacking balls, Doyle was a huge part of it, Fatuwu was outstanding, bith wingers provided options and instead of walking around at the back, we played with a intent to attack (well, once we went a goal down ) 

Ill await the breakdown by the stattos, but that was a VERY different style to the last 2 months... and we even used subs!

Im guessing someone who would rather walk than change his style has had someone mumble in his ear.

[Suzie the Fox]

Nevermind Jesus, today was the bloody LCFC resurection  

[lcfcbluearmy]

38 minutes ago, Guppys Love Child said:

In my opinion.

 

We won that due to the Semi - (and a bit.more) abandonment of EnzoBall.

1st half was the best, and might I say the most entertaining we have played in a long time. Less tippy tappy, 'to me to you' pass fest in the name of control, and more to the playing to our individual players strengths.

 

Some may say it was because we had Ricardo and Doyle in the side ( yes we did look better and more balanced) but it was the lack of EnzoBall for me was the real reason.  We looked to get forward.

 

Yes around 70 mins we retreated to a bit of control and put ourselves under a bit of pressure but then tried to push on again. Which was pleasing 

 

For me there was noticeable increase in the amount of forward and cross field passes from previous matches and far less EnzoBall back and side passing to control. 

 

And didn't we look and perform so so much better for it.

 

Let's hope Enzo has learnt and plays the same way again. As said, we are better at it then EnzoBall.

 

I don't think that was abandonment of Enzoball. I think that is what Enzoball is it's just we haven't been doing that in the last few weeks

[Bilo]

Three winnable games coming up (Birmingham, Millwall and Plymouth) makes this feel a big one, especially when you consider that Ipswich have Southampton and Norwich coming up and Leeds have tricky games against Hull and Coventry. It isn't impossible to see us having a bit of breathing room restored again within a couple of weeks if we can keep up the performance from today.

[StonyFox]

Absolutely dominated Norwich and deserved the win. Having Ndidi and Ricardo back makes a big difference. Nice to see us on the front foot trying to make things happen. 

 

First home win in about 6 weeks. 

 

On to Birmingham! 

[Guppys Love Child]

4 minutes ago, Lionator said:

I think that Enzo ball does look like that it’s just that with jeopardy; we revert to that. 

No.. EnzoBall is slow, (as Enzo tried to implement after we had scored) patient, pragmatic, build-up play, with multiple passes to move the opposition. There was a noticeable reduction in all of those traits in todays performance.

 

[dynamark]

Good effort and Norwich helped by giving our wide men some one v one space.Quicker play all the way from now and we should be good enough

[Mythyaar]

Crowd really played their part there. Urging a more attacking style, particularly encouraging Fatawu at every opportunity. And showing frustration at any sign of sideways/ backwards play.

[Mickyblueeyes]

1 minute ago, Guppys Love Child said:

No.. EnzoBall is slow, (as Enzo tried to implement after we had scored) patient, pragmatic, build-up play, with multiple passes to move the opposition. There was a noticeable reduction in all of those traits in todays performance.

 

No mate. There was twice in that second half where we were knocking it repeatedly on the left and then ping switched play to the right having moved the players. This was the style but played far more effectively then in the last few games. 
 

Doyle was huge today. 

[foxes_rule1978]

It was total football today, much more like it 

[Richmondfox]

23 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said:

We saw the use of Ndidi in the channel - something we've seen all season, especially when the team has played well 

 

We saw switches to the wingers after after narrowing the centre - something we've seen all season when we've played well 

 

But yeah it was so anti Enzo ball  

 

We executed a lot better, and I think Norwich set up allowed us to a certain extent but people see the result and assume we've abandoned Enzo ball completely, just because we won. But for me it was a lot of the same ideas, but players played better. Especially KDH as he is the one who can change a slow move into a forward attack when he receives the ball. 

It wasn’t walking football up to the half way line with the cbs and Winks passing around in tight areas ignoring the wingers and blasting the ball into a marked forward dropping back. 
 

The element of Enzo ball that has cost us games wasn’t on show for the majority of this game.  When they did slip back into it they started to let Norwich back into the game and make complacent passes. 

[Guppys Love Child]

6 minutes ago, ozleicester said:

It looked to me that we played more long/diagonal balls this game than the rest of the season combined, NOT hoofball, just fast intentional attacking balls, Doyle was a huge part of it, Fatuwu was outstanding, bith wingers provided options and instead of walking around at the back, we played with a intent to attack (well, once we went a goal down ) 

Ill await the breakdown by the stattos, but that was a VERY different style to the last 2 months... and we even used subs!

Im guessing someone who would rather walk than change his style has had someone mumble in his ear.

I agree. And I'd go as far as say even when we started the league.

 

We could all see from game one what style Enzo wanted us to play,  but today's was different even to that.

 

No way in our second match of the season last year would we have pinged that many crossfield passes or driven forward that much without 38 midfield 'me to you's'

[Guppys Love Child]

5 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

No mate. There was twice in that second half where we were knocking it repeatedly on the left and then ping switched play to the right having moved the players. This was the style but played far more effectively then in the last few games. 
 

Doyle was huge today. 

Ok.. your take on it. 

 

But I agree Doyle was a marked improvement on JJ 

[dr.o.ball]

16 minutes ago, Guppys Love Child said:

Your opinion my friend. ( But it is a forum👍)

 

But sorry I don't agree - and reading others posts they have similar options.

 

With EnzoBall we would have passed the hell out of it around the middle of the park. Today we were so much more forward intent minded.  Noticeably less passing backwards and the most crossfield and searching through balls I've seen us do in a long time. 

You know regardless of differing opions regarding Enzo's style, it probably depends more on the opposition than us. 

 

Poor from Norwich probably means there manager hasn't done his homework.