Sheffield Wednesday scored three second-half goals in 12 minutes to come from behind at Norwich
Sheffield Wednesday pulled off a remarkable comeback win at Carrow Road to keep their play-off hopes alive at the expense of Norwich City.
The Owls looked like a beaten outfit at half-time after Anis Ben Slimane had set up goals for Borja Sainz and Ante Crnac for the Canaries.
Danny Rohl's team, however, struck back as Michael Ihiekwe's header, a Josh Windass equaliser and Djeidi Gassama's tap-in, all in the space of 12 minutes, earned them their first win in Norfolk since 2009.
The three points means they leapfrog their opponents and move to within five points of sixth-placed Coventry City.
Both sides knew nothing less than three points would do if they were to stay in the running for the top six, but both have also seemingly been doing their best to blow it with poor runs of form in recent weeks.
The Canaries seemed to have brought their run of one win in the previous six games to an end as they took full control with a slick first-half display, and with Sainz back in the goalscoring groove, hopes rose among the Carrow Road faithful.
The Spaniard had led the Championship scoring charts for much of the season but had not hit the net for 13 games before this game.
That changed with a sharp move after 16 minutes as Callum Doyle's pass was cleverly touched on by Slimane and Sainz ran clear to expertly place the ball beyond James Beadle.
The game looked over after 35 minutes when more slick football from the home side produced a second goal. Crnac scored with a sidefoot finish after Sainz had beautifully reversed a pass into the path of Slimane, who pulled it back for the Croatian.
A disgruntled Danny Rohl acted at half-time, hauling off Shea Charles and Svante Ingelsson, replaced by Michael Smith and Nathaniel Chalobah.
The Owls responded superbly, Gassama almost curling one in before Barry Bannan's corner found the head of big defender Ihiekwe to pull one back.
Norwich have been dangerous in attack this season but their defence has been vulnerable, and they started to come apart at the seams as the Yorkshire side applied pressure.
On 72 minutes a goalmouth scramble saw the ball fall to Windass, who gleefully drilled it home to level things up.
After scoring the equaliser, Windass turned provider, running the channel down the right before teasing Canaries defender Jose Cordoba, and then superbly picking out the unmarked Gassama at the far post for the easiest of finishes.
'To come back is outstanding' - reaction
Norwich City head coach Johannes Hoff Thorup told BBC Radio Norfolk:
"On a night like tonight we need to get home and recover, and we will talk tomorrow. Is it a surprise it could go like this? Probably it is because there were many good things going on before.
"We conceded some simple goals; goals that we as a team should not concede.
"It felt like something changed and we were not aggressive enough, too passive in our defending. We opened up for simple passes in behind and didn't deal enough with crosses and of course set pieces, which has been part of the story for us this season.
"They had three corner kicks today and we had nine, but they scored from two of them, and we scored zero."
Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Rohl told BBC Radio Sheffield:
"We played a strong Norwich who showed their quality in the first half, but I thought even at 2-0 there were moments we were in the game, though the transition moments were not clinical enough.
"At half time we brought two players in, changed the shape, changed the pressing line to a little bit higher up.
"To have this mentality to come back, after Middlesbrough and now in Norwich, is outstanding. It felt really good because we had momentum against us and now we have a little bit back."
