I think the game turned on a few periods - first the five minutes after we scored when Marcondes put a free header wide and Toney brought a great save from Krul and Mbuemeo maybe didn't realise how much space he was in from the rebound and tried to lash it in from a very tight angle. We score either of those and I don't think Norwich would have come back from 2-0. The Dalsgaard chance in the second half was also one you have to put away at this level. That also came after we'd done a good job of boxing them on their goal kicks and forcing mistakes from them.
With the injuries we have the 18 almost picks itself. We're playing twice a week for what, a couple of months straight? That means we're going to be making 3 subs most games and some players are going to get minutes because they're fit, not because they're our best in that position. Daniels and the defensive subs probably won't be used except for in-game injuries; so 3 of the remaning 4 subs are likely to feature every time, regardless of who they are.
Ghoddos seems to 'power-down' after about 60 mins so I wasn't surprised to see him hooked. Canos instead of Fosu as his replacement is clearly a puzzler though. Bringing on Janelt and rotating out one of the middle 3 made reasonable sense, but it's hard to escape the conclusion that JDS went as he had the most minutes in his legs. With hindsight that cost us. We can see now that 20 more mins of JDS probably gets us 2 more points. If Marcondes is over his knock then he's going to be a lot fresher than the other options for the middle 3, but how should TF weigh that versus the poor form he's in, and the lack of impact he was having on the game last night. I'm not convinced Forss instead of Toney for the last 10 made much negative impact, for me it was the loss of JDS that changed the momentum.
With the injuries we have the 18 almost picks itself. We're playing twice a week for what, a couple of months straight? That means we're going to be making 3 subs most games and some players are going to get minutes because they're fit, not because they're our best in that position. Daniels and the defensive subs probably won't be used except for in-game injuries; so 3 of the remaning 4 subs are likely to feature every time, regardless of who they are.
Ghoddos seems to 'power-down' after about 60 mins so I wasn't surprised to see him hooked. Canos instead of Fosu as his replacement is clearly a puzzler though. Bringing on Janelt and rotating out one of the middle 3 made reasonable sense, but it's hard to escape the conclusion that JDS went as he had the most minutes in his legs. With hindsight that cost us. We can see now that 20 more mins of JDS probably gets us 2 more points. If Marcondes is over his knock then he's going to be a lot fresher than the other options for the middle 3, but how should TF weigh that versus the poor form he's in, and the lack of impact he was having on the game last night. I'm not convinced Forss instead of Toney for the last 10 made much negative impact, for me it was the loss of JDS that changed the momentum.