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Alex Neil's record at Norwich

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Counting all games including the play-offs

Played 25 won 17 lost 3 drew 5 . Goals for 50 GA 21

Very impressive don''t you think? If we could just cut down on those errors at the back and concede less, that would be fantastic. It seems to be the area we have to improve on the most and the area we need to strengthen, so hopefully AN will be bringing in some reinforcements pre-season.

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I don''t think that conceding less than a goal per game is particularly bad though.

 

Didn''t I read somewhere that we had the league''s best defensive record since Neil  came?

 

All defences make a mistake or two over the ninety minutes and you have to give credit to the opposition forwards as well.

 

Having said all that our defence will need improving somewhat for next season by adding, at least a class central defender and another right back.

We seem to have a chest-full of so-called "decent back-up players" in the defensive areas with only Bassong and Tettey (in his defensive capacity) being exceptions to this. Young Bennett seems to be taking his time developing in to the expected regular, whilst both Martin and Whittaker, having both served us excellently in the recent past, have their vulnerabilities.

 

Having said that, the last two might well be ripped apart by the Chelseas and the Man. U''s, but they would be competent against the lesser teams in the league (which is more than half, IMO.)  

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swjf50,

Based on your figs NCFC conceded 0.840 goals per game in AN''s tenure, the meanest defence in the Prem (Chelsea FC) conceded 0.842 goals per game (more then NCFC) and the meanest defence in the Championship conceded 0.804 goals per game, so whilst I agree we can always improve, we ain''t done too badly, understanding of course the Prem opposition will be of a higher standard.

Interestingly the teams from 10th to 17th in the Prem conceded an average of 1.404 goals per game and scored at 1.069 goals per game, NCFC and AN scored 2.00 per game.

The meanest defence in the entire league was Shrewsbury conceding 0,674 goals per game, must have some decent defenders then??

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