City
continued their pre-season friendlies with a 2-2 draw against
Norwich City at Carrow Rd.
There
were nearly 8,000 there and a really good atmosphere with
both sets of fans singing loud and proud. It was novel to
hear Marshall be the most booed on the pitch instead of Sav.
Norwich
played some lovely passing football and took the game to us.
To be fair, we also played a quite a bt of nice footy with
lots of passing and less of the long ball forward. As we took
the first team off and put the reserves on we stated to become
second best though.
Good
of ex-City player Iwan Roberts to give Muzzy more practice
at the penalty spot as he handballed in the area.
Elliott
started as Captain, then Wise, then Rowett. Only Matt Heath
didn't get a run out of those who travelled and still no sign
of Mr Guppy. No Impey this time either.
After
everyone moaning about Walker, and questioning why we signed
him...he looked bloody rock solid on all the stuff he did
yesterday. Roycey also made a superb save. Should be quite
a battle for first team place!
Defence
was pretty solid apart from letting Naaaarch win too many
free headers in box. Midfield ok. Wisey great, Sav pretty
quiet but worked hard and Muzzy seemed a bit out of sorts.
They seem to be playing him in a less attacking role which
makes no sense to me at all.
Sturridge
and Ade did naff all really and I don't think next season
is gonna be any different I'm afraid. There's no-one to get
it up front to. Very worrying. Let's hope Scowcroft is the
answer. I know we try and give Ade confidence by not slating
him etc, but let's just say our Naaarch friends were laughing
after the game about how crap he still was. I still live in
hope that it'll click and he'll show in a game what he can
do in training, but I'm really beginning to doubt if he can
hack the pressure in front of a crowd.
Oakesy
had a bit of a shocker (again) and kept hanging back and not
going fwd. Again if this was orders it made no sense. Lost
the ball umpteen times. Way too slow. Lewis did ok when he
came on. Matt Jones went to right back and did really well.
Arnie came on and ran about in circles on the spot as he does,
but didn't have a crack at goal unfortunately. Benjamin couldn't
hit a barn door but managed to nearly have a scrap.
Damien
Delaney is an absolute pleasure to watch. He is going to be
so bloody good I get excited every time he gets the ball.
And he's got so confident. He was bossing them all around
when he came on again and went fwd more than the fwds did.
Had a couple of blasts on goal. One of these days he'll let
rip on target and will score goal of the month.
Good
to see Iwan Roberts. Leicester fans gave him a good reception.
All the Naaaaaaarch stewards had adverts for the local paper,
the Evening News, on their back which as a photo of Iwan on
with a set of nice white teeth. Says "now with teeth" about
the paper!
Teams:
Leicester:
Royce (Walker 45), Rowett, Sinclair, Davidson (Lewis 45),
Elliott (Oakes 45), Izzet (Jones 60), Marshall, Savage, Akinbiyi
(Gunnlaugsson 45), Sturridge (Benjamin 45), Wise (Delaney
71).
Norwich: Green (Crichton 65), Kenton, Drury, Mackay, Fleming
(McGovern 65), Emblen (Russell 78), Mulryne (Easton 78), Holt,
Roberts, Abbey (Libbra 58), Llewellyn.
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