Post Match report for the Norwich game - Saturday, 16th October 2021
PREMIER LEAGUE 21/22: Norwich V Brighton - 16/10/21, P8.
* * * * * ALBION FAIL TO SCORE AGAIN * * * * *
RESULT: 0-0 . . . . SHAPE: 3-5-2
VENUE: Carrow Road, Norwich - fourth away match of eight fixtures to date . Sat 3pm.
PRE-MATCH: the Prem was back following October pause for internationals, with yet another break scheduled three weeks ahead. So pandemics apart we know it should be a steady run through afterwards until the FA Cup third round weekend during early January.
Whether Brighton would still hold a place in the top ten at the halfway stage is, like questions of supply & demand for Xmas, open to conjecture.
WEATHER: mild afternoon .
GRAHAM POTTER remains whiskered, although with changing seasons it seems perhaps practical rather than sentimental.
He realises any moment within a ninety minute look at the mirror could be enough to provoke tearing hair out.
The starting eleven was as before at beginning of this month. Fit again Bissouma & Mwepu now joined substitutes.
INJURED: 17 Alzate, 18 Welbeck . . . SQUAD: 4 Webster, 30 Richards.
TEAM . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sanchez
. . . . . . . . . 24 Duffy, 5 Dunk, 33 Burn
. 34 Veltman, 13 Gross, 14 Lallana, 15 Moder, 3 Cucurella
. . . . . . 9 Maupay . . . . . 11 Trossard
BENCH: 23 Steele, 7 Connolly, 8 Bissouma, 12 Mwepu, 27 Locadia, 28 Roberts.
2 Lamptey (59), 20 March (66), 10 Mac Allister (84).
GOALS: 0-0 . None.
INCIDENTS: 3 - Dunk recovers, 5 - Trossard hurt, 10 - Duffy header, 14 - hosts effort, 20 - Sanchez takes, 21 - Lallana chance, 23 - VAR check, 28 - Burn blocks, 29 - Sanchez takes, 35 - Trossard volley, 43 - hosts f-k, 44 - locals punt, 45 - Duffy clears.
47 - Gross pop, 48 - Burn blocks, 53 - Trossard dig, 57 - Moder lash, 61 - visitors blocks, 64 - hosts miss, 68 - away block, 77 - Sanchez takes, 79 - Sanchez holds, 82 - Burn blocks, 87 - Maupay miss, 90+ - Sanchez takes.
YELLOWS: 15 - Veltman . 24 - Lallana . 42 - Cucurella . 90 - Burn, Duffy.
SUBS: 59 - Lamptey for Veltman . 66 - March for Cucurella . 84 - Mac Allister for Moder.
FIRST HALF: a big call midway through this period was decided by powers that be as a benign occurrence. Visitors felt aggrieved but plugged away for an opener prior to the interval. In stoppage hosts missed a sitter. It was all very average.
SECOND HALF: travellers performance continued to tail off and Potter changed both wingbacks around the hour mark. Everything appeared to reduce to a mean level of bottom-six style football between two pedestrian sides.
FUNDAMENTALS: poss 35%-65%, on target 3-3, off target 12-8, corners 8-4,
fouls 5-14, yellows 3-4, subs 3-3, shape 532-352 . . . . . gd3 pt15 po4
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