Norwich 1-0 Sheffield United

By: Edward | December 9th, 2007

Norwich score early again! Ched Evans scores early again! But, Norwich are now out of the bottom three!

Ched Evans scored from a superb Darren Huckerby cross on ten minutes. Huckerby more than making up for the hard time the crowd gave him on Tuesday night. He summoned his old sparkle and match-winning qualities for the first half against Sheffield United.

That wasn’t it however. Roeder said before the game he didn’t want anymore ‘avoidable goals’ being given away (Stoke, Plymouth) and that he wanted Norwch when in the lead to squash the potential of the game. That didn’t happen, Norwich let it slip and slip and the Blades were running Norwich ragged in the second half with James Beattie volleying wide and Keith Gillespie having fun causing all sorts of horrific problems in the Norwich half.

Gary Cahill even had a goal ruled out for Sheffield United. The Sheffield United players complained en masse and continued to complain in their comment after the game but my alibi used is the Radio Norfolk commentary team: Neil Adams and Chris Goreham clearly said, after watching the replays, that Cahill was a yard offside. A tough decision then, but the right one.

Norwich win, they hold on raggedly in an embattled second half, and swap places with Colchester who are now in the bottom three at the expense of Norwich. Wahoo! Now lets make this change permenant. Full credit to the team and management for the character of the turnaround. I didn’t expect positives this quick. The loan signings have been superb, and the new spirit and character to merely start scoring after a month-long drought let along ending the eleven match winless run with four wins out of five is big enough. But as we all too easily know, now is not the time for complacency.