Norwich City’s Elliott Bennett: We have enough quality to fight on both fronts
Elliott Bennett is hoping the confidence gained from Saturday's win can be taken into this Saturday's home game against Newcastle with the Canaries looking to arrest a run of four straight defeats in the top flight. Picture: Paul Chesterton / Focus Images
Mark Armstrong
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
9:48 AM
Norwich City winger Elliott Bennett insists the Canaries have enough quality in their squad to combine a cup run alongside their quest for Premier League survival.
Norwich boss Chris Hughton made eight changes for City’s FA Cup third round clash against Peterborough and saw several fringe first team players shine as they cruised to a 3-0 win at London Road.
Bennett, who netted his second goal for the club in his 50th appearance, believes this demonstrates the Canaries can continue their progress in the FA Cup whilst ensuring their Premier League campaign is not compromised.
“We’ve definitely got enough quality to fight on both fronts,” said Bennett, who revelled in the role just behind striker Simeon Jackson on Saturday. “We’ve got a lot of players that haven’t been playing – myself and Leon Barnett and Simeon Jackson have come in today. We have not played many games but we are on a good run and winning games is what it is all about.
“It just gets your confidence going because the more games you win, the better it is for the football club.”
While Bennett pushed himself to the forefront of Chris Hughton’s mind for the Premier League clash against Newcastle, team-mate Robert Snodgrass confirmed his growing importance to the club with a superb display capped by scoring the third goal.
Bennett is backing the former Leeds man to continue showing exactly why City had been trailing the winger for 18 months before signing him in the summer.
“He’s having a brilliant season and he’s been a massive plus for us,” he said. “His set pieces are unbelievable and we’ve scored some good goals from them. I’m sure throughout the season he is continuing to be a big player for us and he will get more goals.”
Bennett is hoping the confidence gained from Saturday’s win can be taken into this Saturday’s home game against Newcastle with the Canaries looking to arrest a run of four straight defeats in the top flight. We’ve lost the last four but I don’t think we’ve played badly,” added Bennett. “There’s a lot of confidence in our dressing room – we’ve been on a magnificent run.
“We’ve had some tough games over the Christmas period and we didn’t get as many points as maybe we deserve.
“We will look to the Newcastle game, train hard all week. We will be ready for them and hopefully we can get back to winning ways in the Premier League.”
Grant Holt is likely to be restored to the starting line-up if he can shrug off the hamstring injury that restricted his involvement over the Christmas period.
However, Hughton could be tempted to stick with Simeon Jackson up front after the Canadian’s predatory finish against Peterborough and Bennett believes there is enough quality in the squad to fill any potential void left by the skipper.
“There’s a lot of talk about Holt and Moro (Steve Morison) being out and you are going to miss massive players like that,” he said. “We’ve got players that are chomping at the bit to get in and I’m sure they will do themselves justice.”
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12 comments
This is a must win one to get us away from the lower reaches as it is at home we should get over the line in front. As for changing it, I agree if Holt fit play game plan A, if not then a few changes needed as I wuld say some players are getting jaded and could do with a rest, Tettey I would agree needs it but not sure abour Pilks. The Posh game gave some a run out but I like some others do not consider it a true test. OTBC
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Singapore Canary
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Sounds like a plan; I agree that Pilks and Tetty probably need to sit a few out.
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Swiss Canary
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
I have a feeling we may give Newcastle a drubbing this weekend. If Holt starts and Hughton finds a way of including Fox (at Tettey's expense) and Bennett (possibly at Pilkington's expense) again I think we could run riot. Here's hoping
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Joel McDonough
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Ah, I see he came on as a sub, 87th minute.
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DocOhNo
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Was Bennett playing in that game?
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DocOhNo
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Well mr Bennett, or is it media tripe, if you have the quality on both fronts why did we mess up against Villa in the leaque cup?
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Colby Army!
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Peterborough was not a real test of the new arrangement I agree but how will we know in the PL unless we try it? If The Horse IS fit on Saturday we should revert to the successful formula, we really need three points from a depleted Newcastle. If Holt not fit why not give it a try? Mind you we might need Fox to be playing for his passes to the feet of the fast front men.
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DocOhNo
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Agree richard........Peterborough were dire in all respects. Would like to see more of Bennett though as he always seems to play well. Would pick him over Howson any day. Newcastle will be coming here for nothing other than 3 points; however against Brighton last weekend they looked dire too. I think we have enough to see them off.
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Mellow_Yellow
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Not sure that Saturdays strike partnership against a lacklustre Peterborough tells us anything about who can be effective in the premiership...
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richard
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The battle of the letter ns. Now that ba humbug has departed, we have a right good chance. Just as well we were beaten by Aston Villa, we would not have fanciied a 3-1 defeat by Bradford.
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paddycanary
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
This is a big game coming up vs Newcastle, specially for them. They`ve dropped alarmingly and have lost Demba Ba to Chelsea, plus Shola Ameobi is suspended. We need to kick them while they`re down and get well away from the bottom 3. OTBC.
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Mad Brewer
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
This is a big game coming up vs Newcastle, specially for them. They`ve dropped alarmingly and have lost Demba Ba to Chelsea, plus Shola Ameobi is suspended. We need to kick them while they`re down and get well away from the bottom 3. OTBC.
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Mad Brewer
Wednesday, January 9, 2013