Manchester United 4-0 Norwich City - Five talking points

Robert Snodgrass stretchered off after a collision

Did Hughton make a mistake by playing his best players?

Norwich City came into the game against Manchester United knowing fully well that they had a relegation fight on their hands this season. So, many expected Hughton to rest some of his first team players and give the rest a run-out, but, although he made eight changes, two of his most creative players started the game and neither of them finished as they were both injured before the game came to an end.

First, it was Robert Snodgrass, who was taken off on a stretcher, having clashed heads with Rafael da Silva in one of Norwich’s rare attacks. The play was stopped for a long time as Snodgrass was breathing through an oxygen mask until he was taken away in an ambulance. After the game, Chris Hughton said “He was knocked out for a period of time, he will have an X-ray to check nothing is broken but we think it’s concussion.”

Then, in the 76th minute, Nathan Redmond came off with a damaged hip. With a crucial relegation battle on the cards, Hughton could have very well done without an injury to two of his best players and might well be thinking that he made a mistake by playing them both in a game that they were never in.