Norwich City Season 3 Part 2
We ended the last part with three successive defeats at the hands of the top 3, we begin re-building confidence with a narrow home win against Everton, after 3 weeks out injured Damian Francis returns to action from the bench and scores the winner. Zema Abbey returns from his own injury lay-off against Sheff Wed and that brings about our most dominant performance and result (4-0) of the season. Another victory follows with Darren Huckerby scoring after 30 seconds against Charlton before adding a second late on. The winning run is ended at St James Park, Huckerby equalises in the 88th minute only for us to concede an even later winner.
A 2-2 draw with Blackburn having fired into an early lead 2-0 would normally be disappointing but battling a growing injury list, including three of our first choice midfielders, it's a decent away point. Waste a load of chances against Southampton at home before Abbey finally finds the net. I had forgotten one piece of summer business which was securing Julius Aghahowa from Shakhtar on a pre-contract deal, he arrives in mid-December to hopefully catapult us into Europe. Huckerby has been much better this season than last and even won the player of the month for November so Aghahowa begins life on the bench for the trip to Villa Park but comes on at half-time with us 2-0 down but fails to inspire a comeback. We again find ourselves 2-0 behind at half-time in our next match against Spurs, Aghahowa comes and this time he works his magic with two goals and an assist to put us 5-2 up before we collapse and concede three in the last 15 minutes to draw 5-5.
The New Year starts in calmer fashion as we beat Man City 3-1 with the 'A Team' doing the damage. Abbey makes it 7 goals in 7 days with another double in a 2-1 win at Fulham before he stars in a dominant performance as we beat Liverpool 3-0. The winning run continues at Elland Road, Abbey scores yet another double to make it 10 in 5. The partnership with Aghahowa is proving a lethal combination; unfortunately the Nigerian is whisked off to the African Cup of Nations. In his absence we comfortably beat relegation strugglers Leicester and Wolves with Abbey continuing his scoring run. After seven successive wins we are in danger of getting involved in a title race and I receive the manager of the month award for January. Two further wins against Derby and Birmingham, Darren Huckerby scores a hat-trick against the latter, push us to the top of the league ahead of facing Arsenal.
A 2-2 draw with Blackburn having fired into an early lead 2-0 would normally be disappointing but battling a growing injury list, including three of our first choice midfielders, it's a decent away point. Waste a load of chances against Southampton at home before Abbey finally finds the net. I had forgotten one piece of summer business which was securing Julius Aghahowa from Shakhtar on a pre-contract deal, he arrives in mid-December to hopefully catapult us into Europe. Huckerby has been much better this season than last and even won the player of the month for November so Aghahowa begins life on the bench for the trip to Villa Park but comes on at half-time with us 2-0 down but fails to inspire a comeback. We again find ourselves 2-0 behind at half-time in our next match against Spurs, Aghahowa comes and this time he works his magic with two goals and an assist to put us 5-2 up before we collapse and concede three in the last 15 minutes to draw 5-5.
The New Year starts in calmer fashion as we beat Man City 3-1 with the 'A Team' doing the damage. Abbey makes it 7 goals in 7 days with another double in a 2-1 win at Fulham before he stars in a dominant performance as we beat Liverpool 3-0. The winning run continues at Elland Road, Abbey scores yet another double to make it 10 in 5. The partnership with Aghahowa is proving a lethal combination; unfortunately the Nigerian is whisked off to the African Cup of Nations. In his absence we comfortably beat relegation strugglers Leicester and Wolves with Abbey continuing his scoring run. After seven successive wins we are in danger of getting involved in a title race and I receive the manager of the month award for January. Two further wins against Derby and Birmingham, Darren Huckerby scores a hat-trick against the latter, push us to the top of the league ahead of facing Arsenal.
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