Musings on yesterday

Arrived in the Thorpe corner for the first time ever at about 7pm, initial impressions were quite small and not as good a bar as the barclay or jarrold stands.

Game kicked off and for the first 15 minutes we were looking pretty good, despite what was a dissapointing starting XI with no Wessi. Lansbury looked good, and lappin too.

However from 15mins until about 60 mins we played poorly. I have never seen Holt play like that before, his touch was poor. Fox did not do a lot, and the defence looked VERY ropey. They looked short on confidence and balls were bouncing through the box regularly and in all honesty Milwall should have had a couple more goals.

We looked devoid of any attacking ideas for most of the match, with Holt tumbling about all over the place and no cutting edge from the rest of the team. However a set piece changed this. I turned to my mate and said, "we rarely score freekicks" to which he replied "this is going in". Nahhhhh I thought, but Lansbury struck a sweet shot that dipped and curled over the wall, struck the post and found Elliott Ward at the back post mid celebration thinking we'd already scored, he put his foot through it and it flew into the roof of the net. 1-1, and now the crowd were roaring for more.

The crowd were in good tune, Milwalls players looked shell shocked for 5 mins and the attacking commenced. A good ball through to macca could on another day have caused more problems.

Milwall soon settled though and in credit to them they were pressing our midfield very well. As soon as a Norwich player got the ball, Milwall players surrounded them. This meant our passing and creativity took a battering, however, as we have seen with Paul Lambert sides, NEVER SAY DIE!

They fought on to the final whistle, scoring an excellent goal and causing Carrow Road to go mental and I mean MENTAL!! They were some of the greatest celebrations I have witnessed at FCR for some time! The place was rocking.

In summary, I enjoyed my time in the snake pit. The atmosphere was good, aided by the low roof. The match itself for the first 70mins was average, but once we scored there was that feeling that we were going to do what Lambert sides do best, fight on and get what we came for. What other manager of NCFC would have made a triple substition on 55mins to change a game??? LAMBERT IS GOD. OTBC!

Posted By: Tony Martin, Feb 2, 08:28:40