A lot of words have been used to describe City’s football this season; fluid, flowing, sexy, exhilarating to name but a few, but one which isn’t often mentioned is perhaps the most important; disciplined.
It’s been a slightly odd week in the world of Norwich City, despite two important Carrow Road victories taking Daniel Farke’s team to five wins on the spin to remain top of the table.
With a film about a Norwich wrestling family tearing up the box office, a Norwich actress ruling the roost at the Oscars and a Norfolk beach set to feature in a summer release, the eyes of the film world are very much honed in on our neck of the woods at the moment.
If you had told any supporter of a Championship club back in August that their team would be 11 points clear of West Brom with 10 games to play, they’d probably have laughed you off as deluded.
Daniel Farke joked he might put his feet up on the sofa on Saturday but only to watch Norwich City’s next opponents, not their title rivals, after Friday night’s 1-0 Championship win over Swansea City moved them five points clear.
Emi Buendia’s stunning second half finish moved Norwich City five points clear at the top of the Championship after a 1-0 win over Swansea City at Carrow Road on Friday night.
Norwich City have stuck with the same starting XI for the fourth consecutive game, as Kenny McLean holds off the challenge of the fit-again Moritz Leitner in midfield for tonight’s Carrow Road clash with Swansea.
Working out how many points Norwich City need to reach the Premier League is not keeping Daniel Farke awake at nights. Who makes his starting line up is a different matter entirely.
Yet another Norwich City fixture looks set to be moved for live television broadcast – but that won’t worry Daniel Farke’s team, they love playing in front of the TV cameras.
Championship matches don’t come much bigger than tonight’s sold-out Elland Road top-of-the-table encounter. This one really does have the feel of a mid-season cup final.
Norwich City’s Championship promotion charge has seen upcoming league games against Swansea City, Hull City and Middlesbrough picked for live Skysports television coverage.
It’s scarcely more than a year since Mario Vrancic was widely derided as too slow and insufficiently physical to cut it in the Championship and Christoph Zimmermann was written off as a German fourth division defender – yet on Friday night both were absolutely central to City’s stunning statement of intent.
Chris Wilder wants his Sheffield United players to learn from the defensive errors made by other teams during Norwich City’s dramatic Championship comebacks this season.
Norwich City have confirmed former Derby and Coventry defender Paul Williams as the club’s new under-18 head coach ahead of tomorrow night’s FA Youth Cup game at Preston.
However unexpected it may be, Norwich City are in prime promotion position as the halfway point of the season approaches today – but a statement result at Blackburn would really get yellow hearts racing.
Seven goals in his last eight games has continued a fantastic 2018 for Norwich City striker Teemu Pukki – putting him on par with some of Europe’s top goal-scorers.
Mario Vrancic has got the nod ahead of Tom Trybull as part of two changes to Norwich City’s starting line-up for this afternoon’s home clash with Rotherham.
