Match Stats: Norwich v West Brom – A Great Fightback For Our First Win

With an opening day defeat to Bolton Wanderers as head coach Darren Moore kicked off life in the Championship in 2018/19, we did take a point from our second game against Nottingham Forest in midweek, and today we faced Norwich City at Carrow Road looking to pick up the first three points of the year.

Hopes were somewhat high ahead of kick-off, a full debut for Dwight Gayle following his impressive showing in the last match, but Chris Brunt and Jake Livermore in midfield took the interest of social media fans.

The early grumbles grew when the hosts took the lead, but having shown signs of clicking in the last match as we finished strongly, we got our acts together and got back on level terms when Jay Rodriguez hit home from the penalty spot. He added a second and Harvey Barnes got himself back on the scoresheet. Hal Robson-Kanu got himself up and running as he hit our fourth, and even though Norwich hit back twice more, we ended with a 4-3 win and our first three points of the campaign.

Norwich did see a penalty of their own saved as well.

Slow and steady improvement but a win is a win.

Norwich City				West Brom
Rhodes (24), Pukki (70), Hanley (82)				Rodriguez (pen 33, 47), Barnes (65), Robson-Kanu (79)
Krul				Johnstone
Marshall				Nyom
Hanley				Bartley
Klose				Hegazi
Pinto			88	Gibbs			45
Leitner			88	Phillips
Tettey				Livermore
McLean			75	Brunt
Pukki				Barnes			66
Rhodes				Rodriguez
Hernandez				Gayle			84
Substitutes
Godfrey				Robson-Kanu			66
Zimmermann				Morrison			84
Stiepermann			88	Myhill
Srbeny			75	Townsend			45
McGovern				Burke
Thompson			88	Adarabioyo
Cantwell				Field

Game Statistics
20	Goal attempts	13
10	On Target	7
4	Corners	2
12	Fouls	14
0	Yellow Cards	0
0	Red Cards	0
59	%	41