Norwich City are in midweek action on Tuesday, April 8 (KO 7.45pm), welcoming Sunderland to Carrow Road. It was defeat at the weekend for City, falling to a 2-1 loss to Plymouth Argyle at Home Park on Saturday. That result leaves the Canaries 11th in the table, eight points behind Bristol City and Middlesbrough in the final two play-off spots. The Opposition Tuesday's opposition Sunderland have enjoyed a strong campaign and look to have already secured their play-off place, with an outside chance of automatic promotion still remaining. Régis Le Bris' side are eight points behind second-placed Sheffield United ahead of the six remaining fixtures. They've won each of their last two games 1-0, at home to Millwall and away to West Brom. Squad update JHT suggested that there may be some more u21s back on the bench with player numbers looking thin on the ground again 15-16 fit players potentially. (CM) Gibbs - FIT - 2 weeks - hamstring injury - Back in training and may be around the squad (LW) Jurasek - OUT - Still feeling pain in his quad after training last week (LB) Mahovo - OUT - 2-3 weeks - has suffered an injury set back, now something to do with his quad. (CB) Doyle - OUT - 2 weeks - Calf injury - Targeting return for the last 2-3 games of the season (GK) Mair - OUT - No timeline - Returned to the club after breaking his finger. (RW) Springett - OUT - His season is over and J suspect he will be leaving in the Summer (CM) Forsyth - OUT - His season is over after having knee surgery - last option (RW) Dobbin - OUT - His season is over after injuring the opposite calf for which he was withdrawn against Stoke (LB) Chrisene - OUT - His season is over after ankle injury sustained in the first challenge from Dennis vs Blackburn Positive vibes!!! ON THE BALL CITY!!!
WhoScored's prediction: Norwich 0-2 Sunderland Norwich were left shellshocked after Ryan Hardie netted a five-minute brace in the first half on Saturday, securing a 2-1 home win for Championship basement boys Plymouth. The Canaries are essentially out of the playoff race after winning just two of their last 10 league matches. Sunderland inched closer to the promotion battle in gameweek 40 as full-back Trai Hume's first-half goal proved enough to beat play-off contenders West Brom at the Hawthorns. The Black Cats have won back-to-back league games and will expect to extend that run at Carrow Road on Tuesday night.
Looks like McLean at LB Wright comes into CM alongside Nunez and Slimane. Schwartau at RW in place of Crnac
Some really good chances created by us so far but we’ve stuck everything down the middle of the goal right at the keeper
Yeah I thought we played well, really needed to score in that strong first 30mins though. Now can we try to actually sustain a good performance for the full 90mins please
Looks like Marcondes is coming in for the second half, he warming up at half time without an orange vest. Maybe for Schwartau or Slimane?
O’Nien must be on thin ice now. Early yellow. Then elbowed Sargent, now given him a two handed push in the back
NCFC 7 shots, 3 on target. Sunderland 0 shots, so 0 on target. The defence seems to be more solid than usual.
