Norwich City vs Newcastle United match banter.
Posted on December 10th, 2011 | 130 Comments |
Date: Saturday 10th Dec, 2011.
Kick-off: 3.00pm.
Referee: Martin Atkinson.
Hello, good afternoon and welcome to NUFC Blog’s regular “match banter” feature.
Today sees Newcastle United taking an injury ravaged squad to Carrow Road to meet 11th placed Norwich City in what should now be a much tougher fixture than originally anticipated a few weeks ago with our current makeshift side.
For our usual in depth look forward to the game, please check out our extensive match preview for all the team news, possible tactics and lots of other pre-match stuff too.
I shall be filling in the official teamsheets for the game when they finally become available, and if you have any good links to the game, please feel free to share them in the comments below.
Howay the Lads!
Teams
Norwich City: Ruddy (G), R Martin, Morison, Whitbread, Crofts, Holt (C), Surman, Hoolahan, Fox, Tierney, Naughton.
Subs: Rudd, Johnson, Jackson, Pilkington, Bennett, Barnett, Wilbraham.
Newcastle United (4-4-2): Tim Krul (G); Ryan Taylor, James Perch, Danny Simpson, Davide Santon; Gabriel Obertan, Dan Gosling, Yohan Cabaye, Jonas Gutierrez (c); Shola Ameobi, Demba Ba
Subs: Rob Elliot, Shane Ferguson, Alan Smith, Sammy Ameobi, Hatem Ben Arfa, Peter Lovenkrands, Leon Best
Worky:
Krul; R.Taylor, Simpson, Perch, Santon; Obertan, Cabaye, Gosling, Gutierrez (c); Ba, Shola Ameobi.
Subs: Elliot, Ferguson, Smith, Sammy Ameobi, Ben Arfa, Lovenkrands, Best.
Santon finally gets a start, so Simpson in the middle. Still a great looking team.