Roeder rues second-half showing

30th November 2008

Norwich manager Glenn Roeder was at a loss to explain his side's second-half performance after they had controlled proceedings before the break in their 3-2 defeat by Sheffield Wednesday.

Sammy Clingan had put the Canaries ahead from the spot in the 42nd-minute but Tony McMahon, who was playing his last game before returning to Middlesbrough following a three-month loan spell, headed the equaliser after 50 minutes before Leon Clarke put Wednesday ahead five minutes later.

Norwich looked as though they had found a way back when Leroy Lita lost his marker before sliding in a shot off the left-hand post.

But Marcus Tudgay would have the final say 19 minutes from the end when he ghosted in at the back post to squeeze in a header following Lewis Buxton's cross.

"I don't think I've been involved in a game where a performance by one team is so different between the two halves," Roeder said.

"We were brilliant in the first half, there wasn't anything Sheffield Wednesday could do about our performance in the first half. I said that in the first 10 or 15 minutes of the second half whatever tempo they start at, we had to match it - but we didn't."