Dieumerci Mbokani, centre, has scored a goal in each of his two games for Norwich City since joining on loan at the end of the transfer window. Alex Livesey / Getty Images
Dieumerci Mbokani, centre, has scored a goal in each of his two games for Norwich City since joining on loan at the end of the transfer window. Alex Livesey / Getty Images

Premier League progress report: Which way are Norwich City headed?



With the Premier League season well underway, Richard Jolly provides a progress report of the three promoted teams. Here, he focuses on Norwich City.

The start

Mixed. Norwich City climbed into the upper half of the table after losing only two of their first seven games. They found the net in eight of their first nine matches, with captain Russell Martin becoming the top-scoring defender in the Premier League. Yet a run of four defeats appeared a reality check, especially as the 6-2 thrashing at Newcastle United gave City the Premier League's worst defensive record.

But they have been more solid since then and halted the slide with a 1-0 win over Swansea City before the recent international break. They now sit above Chelsea in the table, at 15th.

Reasons to be optimistic

They play more attractive, more progressive football than when they were last in the Premier League and theirs is a genuinely fine midfield.

Only Mesut Ozil and David Silva have more assists than Wes Hoolahan, while Nathan Redmond’s capacity to chip in with goals is rather greater than those of many a costlier player at a bigger club.

Jonny Howson and Graham Dorrans are underrated craftsmen, Matt Jarvis may be a quietly astute recruit and Robbie Brady, the £7 million (Dh39.2m) addition, who was Norwich’s biggest summer signing, has been a threat at either left-back or on the wing. The rather cheaper, but potentially very influential, Youssouf Mulumbu, is fit again.

His fellow Congolese Dieumerci Mbokani offers the promise of goals. Most significantly, perhaps, Norwich appear to be learning lessons. Purists were much more pragmatic when defeating Swansea. They had just 33 per cent of the ball, but stifled Swansea.

Reasons to be pessimistic

The suspicion before the season started was that the defence was not good enough. A failure to buy a centre-back in the summer looked a mistake.

The opening 12 games have supported those theories. Norwich were the last team in the division to keep a clean sheet and Martin, the captain, may find himself dropped.

Norwich have conceded too often at set pieces while goalkeeper John Ruddy has also been fallible, with suggestions he should be omitted.

At the other end of the pitch, Cameron Jerome toils manfully but has only four goals in his past 53 league games. Plenty of others have chipped in so far, but at some stage the strikers will have to bear the weight of the scoring duties.

The X-factor

Alex Neil, the 34-year-old manager, has progressed quickly. An intelligent, intense figure also appears a quick learner. He foxed Manchester City by reconfiguring his side in a 5-4-1 formation that nearly produced a point at the Etihad Stadium.

After enjoying majority of possession, Norwich showed against Swansea that they can be organised out of possession. Neil also has creative players, in Hoolahan and Redmond, who he does not trust to defend, so much depends on when, and how, he uses them.

Key man

Mbokani. For various reasons, the striker, who was borrowed at the end of the transfer window, has started only two league games.

He has nonetheless scored twice, albeit both in defeats. He ought to take over from Jerome as the lone forward. After averaging a goal every other game for Dynamo Kiev and almost two in three for Anderlecht, he could be the regular scorer that Norwich looked to lack, and indeed missed when they were relegated in 2013/14.

Prediction

Touch and go. Norwich could certainly benefit from at least one of the slumbering giants beneath them – Aston Villa, say, or Sunderland – enduring a diabolical season. They also have to be more resilient at Carrow Road, where they have lost three times already, and could benefit from reinforcements in January.

It is easier to average a point a game over the season’s first dozen fixtures than over the campaign. Yet there are reasons to believe Norwich could end with around 36 or 38. It might be enough to keep them up. It might not.

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The burning issue

The internal combustion engine is facing a watershed moment – major manufacturer Volvo is to stop producing petroleum-powered vehicles by 2021 and countries in Europe, including the UK, have vowed to ban their sale before 2040. The National takes a look at the story of one of the most successful technologies of the last 100 years and how it has impacted life in the UAE.

Part three: an affection for classic cars lives on

Read part two: how climate change drove the race for an alternative 

Read part one: how cars came to the UAE

Panipat

Director Ashutosh Gowariker

Produced Ashutosh Gowariker, Rohit Shelatkar, Reliance Entertainment

Cast Arjun Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Kriti Sanon, Mohnish Behl, Padmini Kolhapure, Zeenat Aman

Rating 3 /stars

Essentials
The flights: You can fly from the UAE to Iceland with one stop in Europe with a variety of airlines. Return flights with Emirates from Dubai to Stockholm, then Icelandair to Reykjavik, cost from Dh4,153 return. The whole trip takes 11 hours. British Airways flies from Abu Dhabi and Dubai to Reykjavik, via London, with return flights taking 12 hours and costing from Dh2,490 return, including taxes. 
The activities: A half-day Silfra snorkelling trip costs 14,990 Icelandic kronur (Dh544) with Dive.is. Inside the Volcano also takes half a day and costs 42,000 kronur (Dh1,524). The Jokulsarlon small-boat cruise lasts about an hour and costs 9,800 kronur (Dh356). Into the Glacier costs 19,500 kronur (Dh708). It lasts three to four hours.
The tours: It’s often better to book a tailor-made trip through a specialist operator. UK-based Discover the World offers seven nights, self-driving, across the island from £892 (Dh4,505) per person. This includes three nights’ accommodation at Hotel Husafell near Into the Glacier, two nights at Hotel Ranga and two nights at the Icelandair Hotel Klaustur. It includes car rental, plus an iPad with itinerary and tourist information pre-loaded onto it, while activities can be booked as optional extras. More information inspiredbyiceland.com

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Developer: Treyarch, Raven Software
Publisher:  Activision
Console: PlayStation 4 & 5, Windows, Xbox One & Series X/S
Rating: 3.5/5

COMPANY PROFILE

Name: Lamsa

Founder: Badr Ward

Launched: 2014

Employees: 60

Based: Abu Dhabi

Sector: EdTech

Funding to date: $15 million

HAEMOGLOBIN DISORDERS EXPLAINED

Thalassaemia is part of a family of genetic conditions affecting the blood known as haemoglobin disorders.

Haemoglobin is a substance in the red blood cells that carries oxygen and a lack of it triggers anemia, leaving patients very weak, short of breath and pale.

The most severe type of the condition is typically inherited when both parents are carriers. Those patients often require regular blood transfusions - about 450 of the UAE's 2,000 thalassaemia patients - though frequent transfusions can lead to too much iron in the body and heart and liver problems.

The condition mainly affects people of Mediterranean, South Asian, South-East Asian and Middle Eastern origin. Saudi Arabia recorded 45,892 cases of carriers between 2004 and 2014.

A World Health Organisation study estimated that globally there are at least 950,000 'new carrier couples' every year and annually there are 1.33 million at-risk pregnancies.


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