Norwich v Qpr / Match Thread

[Shania]

This is totally the point, as is your earlier comment on Chair.

There are some fundamentals we are not doing.

We are moving alot better on and off the ball, in general. There are good things happening on the training pitch, but we are terrible at getting ourselves into goal scoring positions. Chair is selfish but maybe he just thinks to himself that he's the only one that can do it so why bother passing. It's not the way forward.

Chair and Willock need to get each other AND Dykes more involved. Atm, the relationship between them three seem close to non-existent on the pitch. We need to fix quite fast, imo.

[QPR Yorkie]

Missing......front line who can find a final third, let alone the goal

[222lepo]

While a loss su cks, I think there were some positive take-away. We dominated large spells of the match, something we have hardly ever done for the last 8+ months. I noted only a couple of chances for Norwich. Apart from the mistake by Dunne, we were very solid defensively. I am not quite sure Begovic needed a shower after the match - he had almost nothing to do. How often have we said that lately?

The problem is that we do not create enough chances. However, the Field one was huge, with half the goal gaping at him when he shot from 10 meters out. Paal had a narrow miss, and the three best efforts from Chair were not too bad, with one missing the target by an inch or two. On another day, one or two of these 5 chances had gone the other side of the post and we would be very happy.

Corners and free kicks are a big headache though. Absolutely abysmal. How can football players that practise kicking every day fail to get the corner kicks past the first defender?

I think we make small steps forward in every match under Marti. If this will continue, and turn out to be enough, remains to be seen though. I like Marti's style and it fits the squad we have. He talks a good game and he reminds me of Beale. But if a manager that did not take Hammarby any higher than 7 this season (in probably the weakest of the three Scandinavian leagues) is good enough to save QPR is anyone's guess right now.

I think Marti lost 6 or 7 influential players this season with Hammarby. He build a whole new team with many youngsters from the academy. Hammarby was in 5 th place for a long period but dropped to 7:th in the last 2-3 games.

[Shania]

I think Marti lost 6 or 7 influential players this season with Hammarby. He build a whole new team with many youngsters from the academy. Hammarby was in 5 th place for a long period but dropped to 7:th in the last 2-3 games.

Spot on.

[Sleeping Giants]

Poor scrappy ugly game. Two poorish sides. Bad passing, terrible crossing, bad ball control etc. Statuesque forwards. They were as bad as us. Little promise that I could see. Marti will be a lot clearer after today about the task ahead and the level of the raw materials available to him. Really bad miss from Field, sad to say.

The Field miss wasn't the sitter people are suggesting it was, yes he missed but it was not a sitter

[Sleeping Giants]

mark my words we will stay up comfortably

I know home games aren't our thing of late but I noticed that all our January games are at home, partly because of the rearranged Watford game but what better start to 2024 could we ask for? We all know we'll wait til the end of the window to sign a striker tho so maybe not all that helpful.

[72bus]

Would any decent striker want to come here with relegation seemingly looming.