This weeks game saw a young Norwich City side coast past Crawley Town with a 3-1 win.
Crawley Town caused Norwich some problems in the second half but Norwich easily came out on top in the end bagging three goals against the League One outfit. A debut goal from Cameron Jerome saw Norwich go into the break with the lead. Josh Murphy doubled Norwich’s lead on the 50th minute with a driven shot into the bottom corner of Jensen’s net.
An own-goal from another Norwich debutant, Carlos Cuellar, made for a nervy half hour before Josh Murphy sealed the win with his second goal of the game – a terrific strike from 20 yards.
Norwich City
| Rudd – Some key saves from the young Norwich ‘keeper, one of which arguably stopped the game from heading into extra-time. | 6.5 |
| Martin – A relatively poor game from the Norwich captain. He was beaten far too often by the Crawley left winger. | 6.0 |
| McFadden – A first team début for the 19 year old had a reasonable game, nothing outstanding, but also no costly mistakes. | 6.0 |
| Cuellar – A very up and down performance from another débutante. An own goal the major negative but he made up for it with some key challenges. | 6.0 |
| Whittaker – A strong performance from the Scotsman after a number of relatively poor performances in the league. | 6.5 |
| Surman – A surprise appearance in Adams’ side as he has been heavily linked with a move away. Despite the rumours, Surman had a strong game, dictating most of the play in the midfield. | 6.5 |
| Bennett – Being played out of position Bennett had a reasonable game, but often found himself drifting out to the right wing leaving space in the centre of the park that Crawley tried to exploit. | 6.0 |
| Jacob Murphy – A strong performance on the wing, linked very well with his twin Josh. Jacob got the assist for Norwich’s second goal. | 7.0 |
| Josh Murphy – Man of the match performance from one of the brightest sparks in the current Norwich squad. Scored twice and was a constant threat running at the Crawley back four. | 8.0 |
| Jerome – Arguably the best of the débutantes in the Norwich team, bagged himself a goal and was used as a target man for the long balls. | 7.0 |
| Loza – Another Norwich youngster, another bright performance. Ran at the Crawley defence with pace, poor final product however. | 6.0 |
Substitutions
| Hall-Johnson – Another lively début coming on in place of Jacob Murphy. | 6.0 |
| Becchio – The seemingly forgotten man within the Norwich fans. Ineffective when coming on despite the ovation from the fans. | 5.0 |
Crawley Town
| Jensen – Poor performance from the experience ‘keeper who’s mistake lead to the opening goal of the game | 5.5 |
| Oyebanjo – Done well breaking forward down the right hand side. Struggled to cope with the attacking threat of the Murphy twins. | 6.0 |
| Leacock – An strong performance form the centre-half dealing with everything thrown his way in the form of long balls and crosses. | 6.5 |
| Walsh – Another solid performance in the heart of the defence alongside Leacock. Dealt well with the physical threat of Jerome. | 6.5 |
| Dickson – The ex-Southampton left-back had a relatively poor game trying to cope with the pace of the ever switching Murphy twins. | 5.5 |
| Edwards – An everage game from a player who done very littler to effect the game in any way. | 6.0 |
| Smith – The ex-Norwich player returned to Carrow Road and had a reasonable game in the centre of the park, linking defence with attack well. | 6.5 |
| Henderson – A good performance from the player who recently arrived at Crawley from Hull. Put in a dangerous cross that ended with Cuellar putting the ball into his own net. | 7.0 |
| Bawling – Another player who went under the radar with an ineffective performance. No major mistakes but nothing to excite the travelling Crawley fans. | 5.5 |
| Young – Caused the Norwich defence some problems in the first half alongside McLeod. | 6.0 |
| McLeod – A bright performance from McLeod as he caused the Norwich defence some real problems with his pace breaking inside from both wings. | 7.5 |
Substitutions
| Tomlin – Came on for Young and caused some problems with his pace. | 6.0 |
| O’Connor – An ineffective performance coming off the bench for Bawling. | 5.0 |
Man of the match
| Josh Murphy had an excellent game scoring two goals and causing untold problems for the Crawley back four. | 8.0 |
