Daniel Farke hopes his Norwich City side will bounce back from a defeat against Liverpool on Saturday, when they visit the Etihad Stadium.
Ahead of the Canaries’ first away trip of the season, the German appeared confident in his pre-match press conference, stating, “If we are at our best, we can hurt the best teams in the world. We know this.”
Norwich will draw inspiration from their 3-2 home victory over Manchester City in 2019, as they produced a terrific all-round display to hand the Sky Blues their first loss of the season.
In the early season encounter, Norwich surprised City with their ability to break quickly and effectively and finding themselves 2-0 up going into halftime with goals from Kenny McLean and playmaker Todd Cantwell, who is likely to feature in this weekend’s fixture.
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City were hurt by a lack of presence in central defence after Aymeric Laporte suffered a catastrophic knee injury that kept him out for months. John Stones and Nicolas Otamendi had performances to forget, as they were robbed for the ball on several occasions near their own goal, including a catastrophic attempt to play out from the back.
This time around, Pep Guardiola will be encouraged by the wealth of options he can call upon in the heart of the backline, with Ruben Dias and the much-improved Stones expected to start ahead of Laporte and Nathan Ake.
Kevin De Bruyne was another significant absentee of this fixture, with the City boss preferring the services of Bernardo Silva in attack. Unfortunately, City could be without their star Belgian for the upcoming fixture after Guardiola admitted in his press conference that he could be forced to sit the game out with an ankle injury.
Encouragingly, City have addressed several of the issues that plagued them in 2019 and will hope to grab their first three points of the season in an effort to keep up with title challengers Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester United.
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