Sky Sports Norwich City: Slimane and Marcondes the real deal for Thorup.

Anis Ben Slimane had some excellent touches in Norwich City’s 1-1 Championship tie with QPR. Anis Ben Slimane and Emi Marcondes are already on the right wavelength for Norwich City’s midfield combination. Slimane, along with Kenny McLean and Marcelino Nunez, impressed in the 1-1 Championship draw against QPR with his passes and intelligent movement. Emi Marcondes was dropped before a late cameo, but he is now definitely part of the ‘Fab Four’, with City having a one-year option on the free agent and a potential £1.4 million loan-to-buy agreement in place to sign Sheffield United recruit Slimane.

Central midfield is a crucial area within Johannes Hoff Thorup’s Carrow Road rebuild.

“It’s good to see the flow that they can get into when we have that midfield, with Kenny, with Nacho, with Anis and Emi,” he told me. “There’s a good connection between them, and we can really play some good footballing moments.”With the manner we play, with the intense pressing and the various moves in midfield, it is a difficult job to be a midfielder with us, and we can see that, especially when we play on Sunday, Wednesday, and Saturday, we need to give them a break now and again.”Emi approached me before the QPR game and claimed that he was terribly weary. So the selection procedure was not extremely difficult.We must recall that he had been without a club for a few months before joining us, and that we essentially inserted him into the starting XI with little training and so on.

Thorup is weighing up whether to rotate again for Wednesday’s trip to Luton after a sluggish outing against the Hoops.

“First half was a tad below our expectations. “I don’t think we really found our rhythm,” he remarked. “It was an even game, but we still created the most opportunities, and I believe with a little more quality in the final decision and finish, we could have scored.” “Instead, we end up conceding on the corner kick, which obviously changed the game totally. It should be a game where we go into halftime with a 0-0 score, alter some things, and hopefully come out stronger in the second half. “I believe there was a good balance with us being not too direct, but still producing a game picture where we are dominant and also not allowing any counters, because that’s the fine balance when you have to chase and when you have to score that goal, because one counter-attack, and then the game can be over.”

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