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Did the Tottenham 'goal' ruin Pukki?

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Pukki found his feet early in the Premier League. Then the goals dried up. Yay like Ricky before him he sustained a toe injury but played through it. It was clear he wasnt himself with the toe injury and that was when he had a dry spell. But he seemed to really change after THAT Tottenham goal. He doesnt seem to have been himself at all since then.

Some pundits have identified that Norwich were over-reliant on one way to score, ie splitting the centre-backs and feeding Pukki, and that once that was found out, we never really looked like scoring again. Strange that for a team that scored so many goals last season we'd be identified as one-dimensional, but there may be truth to that.

The toe period was Pukki's first real dry spell with us. He'd not been prolific really during his career, so it's possible he just had a purple patch and now it is over, but I also wonder if Pukki is a confidence player, and his tail-off was the result of his first loss of confidence in yellow and green.

But then, back to fitness, and trying to find form, he scores an important and outstanding goal. A goal noone in the stadium or watching TV ever questioned. Enter VAR. A contrived armpit off-side decision and Pukki's wonder goal, and Norwich's lead evaporates. Unjustly in the minds of almost everyone who loves football.

Consider for a moment the psychological effects of that on a player, struggling for confiidence, struggling for form. Pukki has been a shadow of himself ever since and just doesnt look lke scoring.

So, what was behind Pukki's loss of form?  Toe injury? Found out? Inability of his team-mates to provide goalscoring oportunities? Return to baselne form and ability after a purple patch which may now be seen as an outlier?

Or, like the penalty incident at Hull with Snodgrass and RvW was mooted, was the Tottenham 'goal' a turning point?

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Realising a dream by helping Finland qualify for a major tournament and then seeing it postponed for a year could've psychologically affected his form.

The injury has also had an effect.

 

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That var decision at home with SPurs  hurt Pukki a lot !

Was wonder goal and also played evry game with not fully fit toe after Leicester make him more caution on 50/50 chalneges.Then he start missed key chanses 3 4 games in a row and after that he was shadow and not even have chanse or shoot on goal for long time.

Was too much noise around this shy man and after this spell he badly suffered.

Then whole team give up and lost passion as I think also badly missed home fans to lift them after great fa cup night.

After wonder season with also many luck in key moments in Championship we hav totally unlucky on key moments this year but that is life and luck on long run is mostly like spiral.

We badly need some refresh things after today demolition from m city as new shirt anounsment ,summer camp dates new fixtures ,few frendly big wins against pub teams .short to be say we need back joy and confidence very soon both for players and fans.

We really as a club have very good platform but to keep and added to that need fast refreshment soon to forget this nightmare 2020.

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