Match Day Thread Norwich City v Derby County 12:30 ko Saturday

Who shall win ?

 

It may put the kibosh on Reading at least

 

Excellent thread.

 

this is what we are used to

 

As agreed if we lose it's someone else's go .

I'm not feeling confident

 

I think we are about to go on a winning run.
It's yours still Christmas DD

 

We have got to win. Two of my best mates out here are Derby City(B.Johnson®) supporters. I will cop it time if we don't.

 

Farke apparently saying Stiepermann hadn't trained enough during the week as he was still recovering from his back injury.

Hopefully we will seem him in the squad for this.

 

Reading for the win!

 

Godfrey not in squad tomorrow.

Farke iterates the line about only starting fully committed players who have trained well.

On Vrancic, Farke remembering his 1st season for getting criticism for playing MV more than he deserved... "A pretty special player. If you love football, you have to love Mario. He can change games."

...so he'll probably make the bench tomorrow and get two minutes to change the game.

 

Placheta's out with a slight strain, Paddy Davitt interprets from Farke's words that Cantwell and Buendia are likely to be back in the 18.

 

Kick off 1230 on telly

TEAM NEWS

Norwich head coach Daniel Farke must decide whether to recall midfielders Emi Buendia and Todd Cantwell for Saturday’s televised Sky Bet Championship match against Derby. The duo were left out of the squad for last week’s defeat at Bournemouth, with Farke feeling they had become unsettled by transfer speculation ahead of the deadline.

Marco Stiepermann is available again following his recent back problems, while fellow midfielder Mario Vrancic is pressing for a first start. Midfielder Kieran Dowell is set for around three months of recovery following ankle surgery, while defenders Sam Byram and Grant Hanley (both hamstring) continue their own rehabilitation.

 

Placheta looks like he could end up some player, but definitely is not ready to be a regular starter yet from what I’ve seen.

 

I can understand the reasoning behind Vrancic not being first choice at CM as I don’t think he offers much defensively and probably isn’t mobile enough but for me he would be a brilliant number 10, he can shoot and thread a pass, he can also adequately drop into a midfield 3 if we were under the cosh.

 

Looks a good 11 Gibbo starts

 

Agree Vrancic in no CM,but as a No 10 he is brilliant.
Our best player in the tail end of our last Championship season.
A must start for me every game.

 

Praise be! Marco restored

 

Just turned Sky on ,and Mick McCarthy is in commentry box.
FFS Thanks Sky

 

Happy with that front 4, chance for Rupp to make his case to be the regular starter alongside Skipp. Interested to see how he does.

Really hope Stiepermann has a good game. Feels like a big opportunity for him with Cantwell out of favour, Dowell injured.