Norwich City Vs Birmingham City. MDT.

Just delete this if KIO or anyone does a proper one.





Scotland defender Grant Hanley could make his Norwich debut after arriving from Newcastle for an undisclosed fee.

Full-back Timm Klose has recovered from a pre-season injury and Cameron Jerome (groin) is fit, but Nelson Oliveira and Wes Hoolahan face pre-match checks.

Birmingham City could give a debut to record signing Jota, who joined the club for more than £6m from Brentford.

Harlee Dean, Maxime Colin, Jason Lowe and Jeremie Boga could also feature, but Carl Jenkinson is injured.

Che Adams, who signed a new five-year contract with Blues on Thursday, returns from a hamstring injury, but Isaac Vassell misses the trip with a similar problem.

Match facts

• The Canaries are unbeaten in their last five home league games against Birmingham (W3 D2) since a 1-0 defeat in March 2002.
• Birmingham have only won one of their last 10 league matches against Norwich (D5 L4).
• Norwich have lost their last two league games, while they have not lost three in succession since November 2016 (a run of five).
• Birmingham have not lost their opening three away league games of a season since the 1988-89 campaign.
• No player has scored more goals as a substitute in the Championship this season than Nelson Oliveira (2 - level with Brentford's Neal Maupay).
• Five of the six goals Birmingham have conceded in the Championship this season have come in the second half of games, with the other coming after just 54 seconds against Bristol City.

 

Not seen KIO on here or on Facebook for a while. I hope he's okay

 

We have no chance of winning today. Bloody Simon Hooper is refereeing

 

Does anybody know when Pritchard will be ready to play again? Naismith and Franke not even on the bench.

 

Very happy to see Naismith, Franke, Martin and Husband all out of the team. Been a long time coming them being dropped.

 

1-0!!!!!!

 

Lord Nelson!

 

1-0 at HT. Looks like we have been in control, but Brumies coming back into it. We have gone from 70 odd % possession in the first half of the first half to 46% by HT.

 

Bloody nora

 

Strange how quiet it is when we're winning. Where are all the moaning Minnies?

 

Clean sheet!! Blimey!

Felt much more confident seeing that starting 11. Was a much better set up than a few of or other games. Set up with some bite to our core.

 

Really dead on here today. Even before the game.

Anyone go to the game? Sounds like we dug in and worked for those 3 points.

 

With our propensity for leaking late goals it is never really comfortable at 1-0

 

Is it just coincidence but Martin not in the squad let alone the team and we win and keep a clean sheet.

Other things we learnt today

Tettey brought in for Reed. I can see the point of playing Tettey occasionally instead of Reed, but I don't thinking Tettey's up to playing every game, but I think he has a role to play this season. Should be used sparingly like Hoolahan.

Maddison can still play without Hoolahan or Naismith on the pitch to hold his hand.

Klose had a good game and I can see the Klose / Hanley combination giving us a solid core that we've been missing for years.

Trybul starts and we win, funily enough last time he started was when we won against Charlton.

So plenty of positives today, but we're still some way off challenging for a play off place, having said that what a difference an international break makes.

I'm sure there's going to be plenty of slip ups along the way, but things are going in the right direction.

 

JM Fan was at the game but locked himself out of not606 so he'll give us the lowdown later

 

How did he manage that?!

 

No idea. He just said he had locked himself out and would post when he gets home!

 

Not been the same without him!

 

Sky highlights!

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/11027591/norwich-1-0-birmingham

 

That was quick!