{"id":317009,"date":"2025-12-15T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317009\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:22:08","slug":"jovon-makama-hails-philippe-clements-norwich-city-x-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317009\/","title":{"rendered":"Jovon Makama hails Philippe Clement\u2019s Norwich City X Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Canaries have enjoyed a significant uplift in performances and results since the Belgian succeeded Liam Manning last month, with their 2-1 victory against in-form Southampton the latest step of their recovery.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jovon Makama is one of a clutch of City players who have enjoyed Clement&#8217;s way of working, including his tough love and high standards, which have helped to spark their improvement since his arrival.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;His first day in, we were doing a bleep test. I&#8217;m pretty sure a lot of people know,&#8221; Makama said post-match.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He expects a lot from us, and we&#8217;ve just worked hard. Every single day we&#8217;re pushing ourselves to extents that maybe some players might not be used to. But it&#8217;s definitely shown in our performances.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We went through a phase where I think the first half we&#8217;d be giving our all, and the second half we&#8217;d drop off. We were conceding a lot of goals from that, I think. Now you can see a change in the first half and the second half. It&#8217;s just good that it&#8217;s paying off and you can see it from us all.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Since he&#8217;s been in, he&#8217;s been really good with me. He&#8217;s pushing me every single day. That&#8217;s something that I like. As you can see in the performances and how confident I look on the pitch, it&#8217;s definitely a boost when on the sideline, everyone&#8217;s trusting you to go up there.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Clement has provoked a response both individually and collectively from City&#8217;s previously underperforming squad.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There is still plenty to refine and gears to find, but Makama explains what has changed since he arrived at Carrow Road tasked with guiding Norwich out of trouble.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Jovon Makama has felt Philippe Clement&#8217;s impact has lifted his game at Carrow Road. (Image: Paul Chesterton\/Focus Images Ltd)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I think the biggest one is that we&#8217;re in every day. There are no days off. There&#8217;s no time to come away from the grind, you could call it,&#8221; Makama said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Every day we&#8217;re working hard and watching back games and watching back clips individually and just putting pieces together as a team and I think you can see that out there.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Our performances have been a lot better in my opinion and as a team we&#8217;re really coming together, working hard for each other and like I said, putting our bodies on the line and I think today was a huge example of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canaries have enjoyed a significant uplift in performances and results since the Belgian succeeded Liam Manning last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-317009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}