As soon as the team started "coming out", Fulham exploited the gaps in behind

They had no quality chances in the first half when Norwich sat deep in a low block. If Murphy had any kind of end product we would have had 2 glorious chances to score in the first half. Chasing a goal and then an equaliser forced us up the pitch, which Fulham took advantage of through Sessegnon.

That's the problem with trying to play like that, unless we have three centre backs and Tettey + Trybull or Leitner. It can work well without all of them against really poor teams, but then there's still the goalscoring issue, which we saw vs Bolton and Forest, even with good chances created.

Posted By: Common Sense Police on March 31st 2018 at 12:44:13

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Every home team in the championship scored yesterday (NCFC) - Charles21, Mar 31, 12:28:25
- We have scored 20 goals in 20 games at home. Really poor. (NCFC) - Jim, Mar 31, 12:37:42
  - As soon as the team started "coming out", Fulham exploited the gaps in behind (NCFC) - Common Sense Police, Mar 31, 12:44:13
    - We haven’t had enough periods in home game where we have sustained (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Mar 31, 13:50:07
      - I agree, but as mentioned to Jim, attacking like that leads to problems in defence (NCFC) - Common Sense Police, Mar 31, 14:11:02
        
        One of the problems is that Pinto is very poor at defending (NCFC) - Jim, Mar 31, 15:07:53
        
        I think we should play 3 at the back FWIW (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Mar 31, 14:23:05
        
        No doubt (NCFC) - Common Sense Police, Mar 31, 14:39:33
    - Injuries and he obviously doesn't rate Raggett (n/m) (NCFC) - Common Sense Police, Mar 31, 12:50:30
    - I agree we should be playing the three CBs, I don’t understand why he abandoned that (n/m) (NCFC) - Jim, Mar 31, 12:47:29
      - Presumably because he wanted to try and be more of an attacking threat (n/m) (NCFC) - loz, Mar 31, 12:59:19
        
        See that is where I see hypocrisy from some on here (NCFC) - Common Sense Police, Mar 31, 13:07:32
        
        Ha good point I’m sure he was (n/m) (NCFC) - loz, Mar 31, 13:18:51
        
        Don’t think so, certainly not in recent times anyway. Playing it with (NCFC) - Jim, Mar 31, 15:13:42
      - Injuries and he obviously doesn't rate Raggett (NCFC) - Common Sense Police, Mar 31, 12:51:27

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