I was one of the few bloggers who looked at Norwich City at the start if the season and thought, they could stay up and surprise a few teams. My views was in part shaped by what a close game the Canaries gave AFCB's players in the Carabao Cup last season. But what I didn't expect was them to be good enough to beat Man City at home.
The matches have not been all as well celebrated as Norwich's win against the defending Champions. Last time out they were battered 1-5 at home by Aston Villa. The Canaries only other League win came at home against Newcastle United. So on the road it has been a bit of a slippery slope, with no wins and a hefty 4-1 defeat against Liverpool on the first night of the season as well as defeats to Crystal Palace, Burnley and West Ham United.
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Still, everyone has noticed that Norwich are scoring goals and most of them are coming from their Finnish striker Teemu Pukki, who has six goals from his eight appearances. He's been well supported by Todd Cantwell who has two goals from midfield.
Like Bournemouth, though, Norwich have struggled to keep a clean sheet. They have also lost Tim Krul for two games with a back problem, although he could be back for the Bournemouth match. A bigger miss is probably Christoph Zimmierman who was the star performer at centre-back for Norwich City last season. Grant Hanley another centre-back is also injured. So you can see that Daniel Farke has had to make a few changes.
All of this is perhaps good news for Bournemouth fans to hear, but Norwich City are in the bottom three and they know they'll need points to get out of there, and that they can't expect to survive on home form alone.
Norwich City last time out below. Expect a few changes as they have several players coming back.
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Like Bournemouth, though, Norwich have struggled to keep a clean sheet. They have also lost Tim Krul for two games with a back problem, although he could be back for the Bournemouth match. A bigger miss is probably Christoph Zimmierman who was the star performer at centre-back for Norwich City last season. Grant Hanley another centre-back is also injured. So you can see that Daniel Farke has had to make a few changes.
Norwich City last time out below. Expect a few changes as they have several players coming back.
33 McGovern,
2 Aarons, 24 Amadou, 4 Godfrey, 12 Lewis
10 Leitner, 23 McLean, 17 BuendÃa, 18 Stiepermann
14 Cantwell, 22 Pukki
An unchanged team for me for AFCB
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Look out for my answers to some Norwich City blogger questions at Norwich City My Football Writer.
Look out for my answers to some Norwich City blogger questions at Norwich City My Football Writer.
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