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  1. Cifuentes reacts to Leicester's win at Norwichpublished at 18:47 GMT 8 November

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    Marti Cifuentes: 'It was important for the whole group'

    Leicester City manager Marti Cifuentes spoke to BBC Radio Leicester following Saturday's 2-1 win at Norwich.

    "It was very important for the whole group because it has not been easy days or easy weeks," he said.

    "The guys showed character, and we finished the game as the better team.

    "The way we finished the last game (a late draw with Middlesbrough in midweek) had a big impact mentally, so to be able to respond from a mental point of view was extremely strong.

    "From day one I've said it doesn't matter how much quality you have got, you need to be together, need to show commitment and this attitude because it is not the easiest league in the world.

    "I think the guys are getting there. Cultural changes are the ones that time more time, so we are trying to get there. It will be up and down, for sure, but now we can reflect on what we have done well over the last couple of games and we need to keep working in this way and analyse what we can improve on."

  2. Pick of the stats: Norwich City v Leicester Citypublished at 11:44 GMT 7 November

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    Norwich resume their quest for a first point at Carrow Road this season as Leicester visit on Saturday (15:00 GMT).

    The Canaries have lost all seven matches in all competitions infront of their own fans under Liam Manning, failing to score in the past three of them, but did stop the rot after six straight Championship defeats with a 1-1 draw at Sheffield Wednesday on Wednesday night.

    Norwich are winless in their past 10, earning just three points, and lie third-bottom, four points from safety, and nine points and nine places adrift of the 13th-placed Foxes.

    Marti Cifuentes' side are in the doldrums too, winless in their past five, a run extended by Middlesbrough's last-gasp equaliser at the King Power on Tuesday night, which did at least end Leicester's three match losing streak.

    • Norwich City have lost each of their past four league games against Leicester City, since a 1-0 win at Carrow Road in February 2020.

    • Leicester City failed to win any of their first five away league meetings with Norwich City this century (D2 L3), but have won on three of four trips to face the Canaries since (L1).

    • Norwich City are winless in their past 10 games in the Championship (D3 L7); their longest losing streak in the second tier of English football since November 2007 (11 games without a win).

    • Leicester City have won just one of their past 10 league games (D6 L3), their fewest over a 10-game spell outside of the top-flight since April 2013 under Nigel Pearson (also 1).

    • Josh Sargent has either scored (5) or assisted (2) 54% of Norwich City's goals in the Championship this season (7/13); the highest percentage by any striker for a team in the current campaign.