Norwich defender Gibson: Attacking is our priority | OneFootball

Norwich City defender Ben Gibson believes they must go back to playing attacking football.

The Canaries were poor during a 2-0 home loss to Aston Villa in the Premier League on Tuesday.

Manager Dean Smith was unhappy with the passive nature of his team's play.

Norwich have netted 10 fewer goals and have two fewer points than they managed after 17 matches in the Premier League in 2019-2020, when they were relegated.

“It's obviously not a good enough return, we know that, but at the same time we have conceded too many goals," said Gibson, per Evening News 24.

“Everything we do is as a team, when we've had clean sheets it's because the team have defended really well, we've only scored eight because we haven't attacked enough as a team.

“I should have scored from set-pieces, other people should have scored. We have to look at ourselves, we can't be over-reliant on Teemu.

“Teemu, to be fair to him, has scored goals when he's had chances. You might think he could have had more but we've got to help him, the wingers have got to score, the midfielders, us (defenders) from set-pieces.

“We've got to show that little bit of magic and we haven't. We were scoring from all over the place last season. Yes, it's a tougher league, but we've got to find a way of reigniting that and improving that."