{"id":480908,"date":"2025-10-07T17:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/480908\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T17:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:47:14","slug":"norwich-city-boss-liam-manning-on-playing-style-criticisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/480908\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich City boss Liam Manning on playing style criticisms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Norwich City head coach Liam Manning insists he wants his team to look more attacking after criticisms of his playing style.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n Canaries fans have been frustrated with a perceived lack of identity since Manning replaced Danish ideologue Johannes Hoff Thorup at the Carrow Road helm, with calls for him to take the handbrake off and unleash a glut of expensive attacking talent.\n<\/p>\n

\n But the 39-year-old was pleased with what he saw from his charges on that front in a 1-0 loss to West Brom, with the attacking performance failing to match a disappointing result.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n “I think it’s probably two-fold,” he said. “There’s an element definitely with the behaviours we spoke about. The whole framing of the week was around showing more identity.\n<\/p>\n

\n “We don’t want to be a team that goes and sits off and has 40pc of the ball and gets pinned back in there. We don’t want to be that. We want to be a team that has the ball and plays on the front foot.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I definitely think the mindset was there and the bravery to go and do it. Then some of the tweaks and some of the changes definitely helped.”\n<\/p>\n

\n Included in those changes were Jose Cordoba and Emiliano Marcondes, who controversially replaced Jakov Medic and Liam Gibbs but were praised by their boss post-match.\n<\/p>\n

\n Lucien Mahovo also appeared for the first time since February and reminded Manning what he had to offer.\n<\/p>\n

\n “It’s a partnership we’ve not seen, with a left-footer, right-footer either side,” explained the City boss. “Just in terms of how we wanted to press as well, Jose’s pace stepping in was also another thing.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I thought he did okay. I thought we showed a bit more energy and intensity out of possession, I thought we pressed a bit higher. Some of the duels we needed to be better on, but the intent was good.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Emi is one who we’ve had to manage quite a lot, just because he’s had a slight niggle in his hip that he’s had for quite a while. He had a good impact again – he’s an intelligent footballer, a bright player, he takes up good positions. He’s hard to mark and just brings a bit of composure, which I think we’ve been crying out for.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Lucien has trained well, he’s in a good spot. Having someone like him back is a massive addition just for balance, in terms of having a left footer defending at left back. He’s a huge help in that side of it but also then the quality that you get going forward. I’m delighted to have him back.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norwich City head coach Liam Manning insists he wants his team to look more attacking after criticisms of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-480908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115334141970920345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}