Norwood's miss!

[Bladesman]

Was a shocker. Otherwise he had a decent game.

Don't know why he didn't pass it in. Seemed to try and break the net

He says to camera in the behind the scenes video that it bobbled up a bit before he hit it. He did say he shouldn't have missed though.

 

[ISZA ⚔️]

extended highlights are out tomorrow. it'll be on that, probably alongside MGW bizare back heel to sharp when through on goal

Morgan Flicks-White.

 

[jono_t2000]

Mind he did look very angry with himself for a while after. He actually seemed to care which can only be a good thing.. onward and upward and on the roll.

Should have looked at Jebbo,.. was onside unmarked and much closer to the goal.

Norwood could have easily slipped it to him.. He was pissed off

 

[ZLB]

Possibly the worst miss I have seen an open net smashed over the bar! (He had a good game though superb ball for the first goal).

I fucking loved that miss. Norwood is superb. Win some lose some.

 

[jono_t2000]

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

I fink he fought he was taking a corner.

 

[Beans]

Should have looked at Jebbo,.. was onside unmarked and much closer to the goal.

Norwood could have easily slipped it to him.. He was pissed off

Think that’s asking a hell of a lot for him to immediately process that Jebbison is onside when he’s clearly in front of the two defenders in Norwood’s eyeline (looking at your screenshot above, the ball comes from the left side). Plus surely every footballer in the world thinks “EMPTY NET, SHOOOOT!” in this scenario! Imagine if he’d tried a pass and Jebbison miscontrols / keeper saves it / linesman mistakenly gives offside.

 

[Karaoke Blade]

Should have looked at Jebbo,.. was onside unmarked and much closer to the goal.

Norwood could have easily slipped it to him.. He was pissed off

No, he should have rolled it into an empty net.

 

[corner_flag]

Aarghh, horrible. Why did I watch that?
But maybe should be forced viewing for some of the chronic moaners at the lane to show how far we have come

 

[PokerBlade]

In fairness to Norwood it just bobbles up a bit before he hits it. On the other hand, he's no need to put his foot through it when he could just roll it into an empty goal. Can only he think he was so shocked to get the ball he lost his composure.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Has any footage of this emerged yet?

I still can’t believe what I saw with my eyes live. It must have been harder than an empty goal in front of him surely!

They played it on Quest, showed his wonder ball for the first goal and then said that just to keep Oli grounded they needed to show the open net miss.

It was actually 10x harder than the header MGW missed.

 

[LewishamBlade]

Am I the only one who thinks our desso is in a right state compared to previous seasons?

Yes, he should have hit the target but the pitch is looking tired and worn in a few places.

To be fair - the worst miss was MGW's header in the 1st half and that had nowt to do with the pitch.

UTB

Don’t blame the pitch
And don’t try and say MGW miss was worse than an open net.

 

[LewishamBlade]

They played it on Quest, showed his wonder ball for the first goal and then said that just to keep Oli grounded they needed to show the open net miss.

It was actually 10x harder than the header MGW missed.

Give over. It’s a pass into an open net.

 

[corkysbeard]

Utube Swans tv.

Cheers pal,I've seen it on the extended highlights on sutv...fucking glaring miss,only had to stroke/pass into net,not fucking welly it.

 

[N20 Blade]

In fairness to Norwood it just bobbles up a bit before he hits it. On the other hand, he's no need to put his foot through it when he could just roll it into an empty goal. Can only he think he was so shocked to get the ball he lost his composure.

Spot on, the element of surprise is massive, earlier in the half the keeper passed to Berge just inside the box and he clearly couldn't fathom what had just happened, dithered and got tackled. For this to happen once in a professional game is unusual but twice sheer incompetence from the Swansea team. I don't recall attending a more one sided game ever at the lane, a really strange match.

 

[guancheblade]

Am I the only one who thinks our desso is in a right state compared to previous seasons?

Yes, he should have hit the target but the pitch is looking tired and worn in a few places.

To be fair - the worst miss was MGW's header in the 1st half and that had nowt to do with the pitch.

UTB

Probably a combination of going weeks without any action on it to all of a sudden playing games every 3-4 days on it. In the middle of winter.

 

[PokerBlade]

Spot on, the element of surprise is massive, earlier in the half the keeper passed to Berge just inside the box and he clearly couldn't fathom what had just happened, dithered and got tackled. For this to happen once in a professional game is unusual but twice sheer incompetence from the Swansea team. I don't recall attending a more one sided game ever at the lane, a really strange match.

I just posted in the View From thread that Swansea reminded me so much of us under Weir. A side playing for possession for possession's sake with players that crumbled at the first sign of pressure. And I say that grudgingly as someone who likes dominating possession and controlling games, but under Weir it was a weekly occurrence that a player who really wasn't capable of knocking it about at the back would get caught out. Whatever the Swansea manager's ideals are it didn't seem like he recognised that his personnel weren't going to be able to do it.

 

[Fulwood Blade]

Don’t blame the pitch
And don’t try and say MGW miss was worse than an open net.

It was easier for MGW to blow that one in !

Daft bugger has probably missed out on his first pro hattrick - lets hope he's saving it for Wednesday night.

UTB

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

He says to camera in the behind the scenes video that it bobbled up a bit before he hit it. He did say he shouldn't have missed though.

Ball bobbled on the only bad bit of Desso

 

[Pittsburg Blade]

Am I the only one who thinks our desso is in a right state compared to previous seasons?

Yes, he should have hit the target but the pitch is looking tired and worn in a few places.

To be fair - the worst miss was MGW's header in the 1st half and that had nowt to do with the pitch.

UTB

I agree. The centre of the goals are looking a bit dodgy. Time to put down a new carpet as this one’s been overly munched on.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Give over. It’s a pass into an open net.

From 20 yards, not a free header from 6 yards

 

[LewishamBlade]

From 20 yards, not a free header from 6 yards

For a midfielder. Who I’ve never seen head a ball

Versus a technically gifted midfielder who needed to stroke a ball 18 yards into an empty net

They’re not even close to being similar in terms of difficulty

 

[jt64]

Would like to see the xG for that attempt, if only to see some posters on here go nuts at the concept that it's missed whatever percentage of the time xG thinks

 

[brownblade]

I just think Norwood got excited and first instinct was to smash it in. But missed! Thankfully at 4-0, yes.

Key player again though, Oli.

 

[Bowman Blade]

I will let him off with that one after his world class pass for MGW's opener !

 

[Balham]

Would like to see the xG for that attempt, if only to see some posters on here go nuts at the concept that it's missed whatever percentage of the time xG thinks

A quick glance at Infogol (and they all use slightly different mechanics so other providers will have other results) has Norwood's at 0.32 and Gibbs-White's header as the best chance of the game at 0.54.

 

[darleyblade]

A quick glance at Infogol (and they all use slightly different mechanics so other providers will have other results) has Norwood's at 0.32 and Gibbs-White's header as the best chance of the game at 0.54.

My theory is that since Norwood's game is largely built around pinging the ball in the air to a winger, he normally gets his foot under it and lifts it to do so. Even his great pass to MGW was in the air. When it comes to shooting, he nearly always does exactly the same thing and blasts it over the bar - perhaps he needs to refine his shooting technique somewhat. Do they actually ever practise shooting in training?

However, I agree with a previous poster that (only because we were 4-0 up) it was one of the funniest misses I've ever seen in 65 years of watching the Blades.

 

[Balham]

My theory is that since Norwood's game is largely built around pinging the ball in the air to a winger, he normally gets his foot under it and lifts it to do so. Even his great pass to MGW was in the air. When it comes to shooting, he nearly always does exactly the same thing and blasts it over the bar - perhaps he needs to refine his shooting technique somewhat. Do they actually ever practise shooting in training?

However, I agree with a previous poster that (only because we were 4-0 up) it was one of the funniest misses I've ever seen in 65 years of watching the Blades.

I think it's more that he was completely taken by surprise and he didn't get himself set. I would imagine that none of the other 21 outfield players on the pitch had ever been in that situation and I don't think he realised how much time he had either.

 

[blade67]

Spot on, the element of surprise is massive, earlier in the half the keeper passed to Berge just inside the box and he clearly couldn't fathom what had just happened, dithered and got tackled. For this to happen once in a professional game is unusual but twice sheer incompetence from the Swansea team. I don't recall attending a more one sided game ever at the lane, a really strange match.

Port vale in the league 1 promotion season was similar. Absolutely slaughtered them

Swansea were shocking, but we were excellent

 

[Guesty]

Port vale in the league 1 promotion season was similar. Absolutely slaughtered them

Swansea were shocking, but we were excellent

Four goals and four disallowed, was that the one?