Callum Doyle: The setbacks at Carrow Road teach the city a hard lesson

With a solid defensive system that featured three at-the-back formations, Derby and Preston both sought to frustrate. The Manchester City defender, who is now on loan, feels that Norwich has learned an unpleasant but essential lesson.

“It’s a setback, but for now we can’t dwell on it too much. “The game is finished,” Doyle thought. “We lost this game after drawing the previous one. We must begin accumulating points.

“This year’s Championship is quite close between those in the play-offs and those in the middle of the table. Preston and other teams are hoping to come here and score three points, and they were successful today. We need to improve, but you have to give it to them.

“You can review games to see how we’ve

performed this season. The opposing teams will examine our excellent ball movement and try to figure out how to defeat us. We must return on Saturday after Derby and Preston completed the task. “We’ve unintentionally dropped points in two of the lessons thus far. We must win these upcoming games, pick up three points, and build momentum in order to make it to the playoffs.”

After a sluggish start to the game that saw the visitors grab the lead within five minutes, Doyle believed that City failed to recover and only managed one shot on goal against a resolute Preston team.

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