Norwich held to a draw in pre-season Barnet match
New signings Ashley Barnes and Kellen Fisher were in action
Norwich City's new signings Ashley Barnes and Kellen Fisher were in action during Norwich City's pre-season opener at Barnet last night.
The Canaries led early thanks to Jonathan Rowe, but were held to a one-one draw.
Barnet’s team included former Norwich City Academy product Reece Hall-Johnson, who helped the Canaries to the FA Youth Cup title in 2013.
Right back Jack Stacey, who was introduced at half-time, says there are improvements to be made:
"Pre-season is all about getting into the style of play that we've been working on in training. I've been here for a week now, and we've been working on possession in training.
"At the end of the day, the score isn't the most important thing. It's about what we've worked on, and there's improvements to be made. Fitness first and foremost, but we showed some patterns we've been working on for sure."
Making his debut for the club, Stacey added it was nice to make his first appearance in a Norwich City shirt:
"It was nice to make my first appearance, I've met everybody in training, and everyone in their respective positions have gone above and beyond to help me and welcome me in. It feels like I've been here a long time."
Head coach David Wagner said his side should have used their opportunities more effectively: ""I think we know what we have to do change ourselves.
"I liked the effort from the players, everyone has come through this game healthy, which is always important during pre-season.
"We've seen in certain situations where we had some technical mistakes, where we weren't really fresh. We played some good football, created good opportunities, which we unfortunately didn't use.
"But we're in the middle of pre-season, so we gave some chances away. We didn't use our good opportunities.
"All in all, I'm happy. We saw some new faces as well, some young faces too. Pre-season games are, first and foremost, to get minutes into legs, and to show that you can challenge yourself. What I've learned is that they're open to challenging themselves.
"We've had a lot of the younger players involved in training early on. We had some internationals away, and they came back yesterday, and were not in a position to play today. "Great to see our academy products in more detail. I think today, especially in the second half, they have the right to train with the first-team anytime, and we'll keep our eyes on them.
"I think we'll travel with 20+ players to King's Lynn on Saturday to give everybody game time. I don't know how much yet, as some are in a position to play more than 45 minutes. Most importantly, we'll train again tomorrow, stay healthy and stay healthy after King's Lynn."
1687 people were in attendance at last night's game, including 564 Norwich fans.