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Norwich City boss Johannes Hoff Thorup has said he is currently experiencing the worst injury crisis of his managerial career as he prepares for Tuesday's Championship game at Sheffield Wednesday.

The Danish coach is aiming to pick his depleted squad up following a late 2-1 defeat at Cardiff on Saturday in which the Canaries conceded goals in the 89th and 93rd minutes.

"We brought [Christian] Fassnacht and Tony Springett on the bench the other day but they were not available," Thorup told BBC Radio Norfolk.

"We had 15, 16 outfield players available for minutes, where one of them was a youth team player who just came from a Friday night game against Manchester City.

"It's a crazy situation that we're in but we'll deal with it and we'll support each other, but of course we'll look at it and see if we can make any changes - are we doing something wrong here?"

In total, Thorup is without 11 first-team players at the moment including goalkeeper Angus Gunn, Marcelino Nunez and Scottish midfielder Gabriel Forsyth, who hobbled off with a knee injury on Saturday.

The Norwich boss will also be without striker Josh Sargent for the next eight weeks.

"It is not what we hoped for but it is unfortunately how it is," Thorup added.

"Some of these injuries are game related but we have to look at this as something we can do better - that is the nature of the business we are in."

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Sheffield Wednesday are looking to recover from their heavy 6-2 defeat at home to Watford on Saturday and have won just one of their last six games at Hillsborough (D2 L3).

Norwich City are without a win in four (D3 L1) but are still only three points behind sixth-placed West Brom. The Canaries are also the joint-highest scorers in the Championship alongside Sunderland with 23 goals.

• Sheffield Wednesday are winless in their last six league games against Norwich City (D2 L4) since hammering them 5-1 in May 2018.

• Since their last goalless league draw at Hillsborough in October 2014, Sheffield Wednesday and Norwich have shared 23 goals in the five league games there since (4.6 per game).

• Sheffield Wednesday haven't lost a home league game in midweek since April 2021 against Swansea (W11 D7 since), with five of their last six such games ending in a draw.

• Norwich have won just one of their last seven midweek league games (D3 L3), with each of their last three ending in a draw.

• Norwich's Borja Sainz has been involved in three goals in his two previous Championship appearances against Sheffield Wednesday (2 goals, 1 assist), all of which came last season.

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