Norwich City v Leeds Utd Match Thread - Thank god for Raphinha!

[White Riot]

Just in case anyone thinks not beating Norwich is ok.

I don't, I expect us to win convincingly against a woeful team.

[Scoobychief]

Norwich will be up for this game it will be like their survi Al depends on it. They will see this game as we an beat them and turn our season around. We re all expecting to win this game but we will need to be very cautious and finish whatever chances comes our way. And keep it tight at the baxk

[mentalcase]

I'm hoping we come out fighting from the off and batter them.
The whole squad realise the inept performance at southampton and know it simply isn't good enough, injuries apart, we have better players and a better system than they do.
We will beat them convincingly with Rapha, Joff & Rodrigo pulling the strings, I even expect James & lazy Jack to shine , with Llorente at the back we'll cope ok, hope I'm not expecting too much.

[1964white]

[Boo Radley]

However worried we are they are a hundred times worse. And that’s their owners, coaching staff, players and fans.

It is critical that we give them no hope. We have to go for the jugular and score first and early. If we do that they will implode and we can win comfortably to say the least of it.

However, if we miss chances and don’t score by halftime they will see that they have something to fight for and that we are not to be feared. Then we will have a game on our hands.

For that reason I really hope Gelhardt starts tomorrow. We just know that Roberts won’t score and we have a doubt about Rodrigo scoring, no matter how well they may play. They are down a CB tomorrow and will be vulnerable. We need to kill any hope they have by sticking the ball in the net as early as possible.

[mentalcase]

Interesting from Dom, I think he's slightly edging his bets with 1-2.
As we all say, 3 points no matter what.

[Leeds1000]

I can't contemplate anything other than a win. Yes they should be up for it, but so should we and lets be honest looking at the stats put up, it would be embarrassing if we lose. If we are to get anything going this season we need to win and ideally score a few goals in the process.

[The Subhuman]

My 11

Meslier
Shackleton
Llorente
Struijk
Firpo
Phillips
Dallas
Raphinha
James
Gelhardt
Rodrigo

[mentalcase]

My 11

Meslier
Shackleton
Llorente
Struijk
Firpo
Phillips
Dallas
Raphinha
James
Gelhardt
Rodrigo

100% agree, although I can see MB putting cooper in there instead of Struijk, roberts simply cannot start for me.
There's goals in that line-up.

[1964white]

100% agree, although I can see MB putting cooper in there instead of Struijk,

I can see Cooper getting the nod, even though it was well documented, Llorente/Struijk were our best CB pair last season.

What do we know?

[Cjay]

Agree with Faaip's lineup but we all know Cooper when fit is guaranteed to play

[Chilli D]

Agree with Faaip's lineup but we all know Cooper when fit is guaranteed to play

Yeah, my feeling exactly, we all know Cooper will start at Struijk's expense

[Chilli D]

Gelhardt probably won't start either unfortunately

[The Subhuman]

TBF Gelhardt maybe better coming off the bench for a bit longer yet and I have Gelhardt playing the ten in my line up

[1964white]

Hope our forwards were watching Manure & take note tonight.

Clinical finishing of the highest order!

[1964white]

Yeah, my feeling exactly, we all know Cooper will start at Struijk's expense

Even though he made a costly horrible error vs Arsenal.

[The Subhuman]

and, for me, v Wolves

[White Riot]

Agree with Faaip's lineup but we all know Cooper when fit is guaranteed to play

And to pull some shirts

[mentalcase]

Hope our forwards were watching Manure & take note tonight.

Clinical finishing of the highest order!

Ronalrape & cavani are different gravy to rodrigo & roberts mind.

[1964white]

Early start for me tomorrow.

Up at 5, leaving here about 6.30am.

Come on Leeds don't let me down or else it will be a longer day than it actually is!