November 7, 2007
| Pkd | Inf | Name | Position | Morale | Form | Con | Apps | Gls | Av Rat |
| GK | | Simon Jentzsch | GK | Very Good | 8-8-7-7-8 | 100% | 15 | - | 7.60 |
| DR | | Abubakari Yakubu | D/DM RC | Very Good | 7-7-6-7-7 | 94% | 13 | - | 7.38 |
| DL | | Juanfran | D/DM L | Superb | 7-7-7-7-7 | 98% | 12 | - | 7.00 |
| DC | | Pascal Cygan | D C | Superb | 7-7-8-6-7 | 100% | 12 (1) | 1 | 7.15 |
| DC | | Danny Shittu | D C | Good | 7-8-6-7-7 | 94% | 16 | 1 | 7.38 |
| DMC | | Freddy Guarín | DM RC | Superb | 6-7-7-5-7 | 98% | 9 (2) | 2 | 7.00 |
| MR | | Christian Wilhelmsson | AM/F RLC | Superb | 7-7-8-6-8 | 98% | 12 (1) | - | 7.46 |
| ML | | Fabrice Fernandes | AM RL | Good | 7-8-7-9-7 | 93% | 10 (5) | - | 7.47 |
| AMC | | Bonaventure Kalou | AM/F RC | Superb | 9-7-8-7-8 | 90% | 8 | 4 | 7.63 |
| FC | | Jon Dahl Tomasson | F C | Good | 7-8-7-7-7 | 91% | 9 (7) | 6 | 7.13 |
| FC | | Güiza | S C | Superb | 6-7-7-8-7 | 94% | 5 (2) | 1 | 7.14 |
| S1 | Lst | Generoso Rossi | GK | Okay | 8-8-7-8-7 | 100% | 1 | - | 7.00 |
| S2 | | Cedric van der Gun | AM/F C | Superb | 7-7-7-9-8 | 94% | 2 (1) | - | 8.00 |
| S3 | | Peter Løvenkrands | F LC | Good | 7-7-8-8-7 | 92% | 6 (4) | 2 | 7.30 |
| S4 | | Damiano Zenoni | DM RC | Very Good | 7-7-6-7-7 | 93% | 2 (9) | - | 6.91 |
| S5 | Unh | Raúl Sánchez | S C | Good | 7-8-7-7-7 | 93% | 2 (2) | 1 | 7.25 |
| - | Unh | Scott Donnelly | AM RC | Good | 7-7-7-9-7 | 91% | 2 (2) | 3 | 7.50 |
| - | | Youssouf Hersi | AM C | Okay | 7-7-6-7-7 | 90% | 6 (2) | 1 | 7.00 |
| - | | Michael Ball | D/DM L | Very Good | 7-8-7-8-7 | 91% | 4 | - | 7.50 |
| - | Trn | Fábio Rochemback | DM C | Very Poor | 4-8-7-8-7 | 95% | 7 | 1 | 6.86 |
| - | Inj | Tomas Locatelli | AM LC | Okay | 7-7-7-7-7 | 72% | 1 (8) | - | 7.00 |
| - | Inj | Cristiano Lucarelli | S C | Superb | 6-7-7-10-8 | 40% | 13 | 10 | 7.54 |
| - | | Steve Finnan | D/DM R | Good | 8-7-8-7-7 | 91% | 7 | - | 7.29 |
Carling Cup, Round 4: we play Norwich on their pitch. They are currently in 3rd place in the Championship and we are 4-5 favourites to win this game.
Don't know if you remember our last encounter with them, but I do. It was in the 3rd round of the FA Cup a year ago, when they beat us 1-2 to end our cup run prematurely.
We don't play until November 17 after this game.
Dang, we're getting many quality chances but we're putting the ball in the stands more than on the net and after 45 minutes, the game is still scoreless. We are outshooting them 8(3) to 3(1). I'm wary of long passes over our defenders...
We get another great chance in teh 50th minute when
Pascal Cygan puts his head to an incoming header, but the ball hits the crossbar!!!
The shit hits the fan in the 75th minute when, in the middle of a scramble,
Danny Shittu gets hit by the ball near our 6 yard box and he scores an own goal. Down 0-1...
I can't write all the expletives that went through my teeth as the bottom of the screen flashed the words "FINAL WHISTLE" but there were many...
Final Score: Q.P.R. 0, Norwich 1
We outshot them 13(7) to 8(2), complete and absolute bad luck, very frustrating even though it is not in league play. To think that your most reliable defender could be the cause of the only goal, the one that made you lose, well, I don't know what to say... We also were called for 14 fouls compared to only 8 for them...
Fabrice Fernandes was selected as
Man of the Match in the loss, rating at 9 with 8 key passes. Everybody else rated at 7.
With that loss, we're out of the Carling Cup.
FM