Norwich definitely look rattled.

Kadeem Harris plays a ball for Wednesday across the pitch in the Norwich half and it's snapped up by the visitors.

However, it's a really sloppy ball for Teemu Pukki that is easy pickings for Osaze Urhoghide.

Then Tom Lees steps across to shut down a Canaries move down the right, winning a goal-kick.

Plenty of tackles going in from Wednesday to break up Norwich's attacking rhythm.

Kenny McLean tries to link up with Dimitri Giannoulis but the ball is loose.

The home side come forward, Josh Windass looks for a cross but it's cut out by the Canaries defence.

Wednesday certainly not fazed at present.

Immediate reply well saved by Keiren Westwood, as Norwich midfielder Lukas Rupp digs the ball out of his feet on the edge of the box and smashes toward goal but it's parried away.

The corner is cleared easily.

Sheffield Wednesday get in behind as Adam Reach dinks a perfect ball over the top for Josh Windass.

He brings it down on his chest and is in but Ben Gibson clips him and he goes down.

Free-kick on the edge of the box and a booking for Norwich defender Gibson.

Norwich's Todd Cantwell slips a low pass looking to set Teemu Pukki away in the box, slide-rule stuff, but Sam Hutchinson is across to mop up, and Wednesday win a throw.

Lively from the visitors.

Sheffield Wednesday will be doing a fair bit of ball-chasing the afternoon, and with the blue and white shirts haring about chasing down it was a bit like kids' football - everyone following the ball.

Kadeem Harris has to get in to snuff out a raid by Todd Cantwell down the left, and another diagonal out to the left touchline just overruns Dimitri Giannoulis for a Wednesday goal-kick.

First thing Sheffield Wednesday do is to bang a long 'hoik' forward from Barry Bannan which sails through to the Norwich backline.

Hope that's not setting a tone for the day...

Right, here we go.

Hillsborough, echoing with the prematch shouts of more vocal players, stands otherwise silent. A great shame. It can rock when it's packed.

Tony Harrington is our referee. The whistle is blown. It's up and running.

I have to admit the Norwich games I've done this season have often been enjoyable.

The quality of their midfield in particular, the quality of Spurs loanee Oliver Skipp, the creativity of Emi Buendia and Todd Cantwell... the bite of Kenny McLean.

There's plenty of class in the Wednesday side too. Barry Bannan can play, Adam Reach has a rocket in those boots and Jordan Rhodes has scored goals in his career.

Always nice to hear Simple Minds' 'Waterfront' too - the song which Wednesday run out to at Hillsborough.

Younger readers might need to ask, er... dad or even grandad these days.

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With 10 games remaining after today's fixtures, and the potential of a 10-point lead for Norwich City with a win today, head coach Daniel Farke is not taking his foot off the metaphorical gas.

This is the first of three games in the next seven days, after which the promotion picture could look particularly rosy for the title-chasing Canaries.

With players such as Max Aarons and Oliver Skipp ever present in the league, and others such as Teemu Pukki and Emi Buendia also regulars, there could be temptation to rest stars - not for Farke.

"I'm not willing to rest or save some players in the next few games just to have them available for the games after," he told BBC Radio Norfolk.

"We have a look at the players before each game what is necessary, if a key player is feeling exhausted then we'll bring some fresh legs in.

"But there's no planning, one game is important at the moment and that is Sheffield Wednesday."

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Anyone who's ever been to Hillsborough, with its imposing, towering stands and vociferous crowd (pre-Covid of course), will appreciate just what a big club Sheffield Wednesday are, and how much bigger they could be if they were a success.

It's just the sort of potential which lured Darren Moore from an impressive building job at South Yorkshire rivals Doncaster - with eyes on the Championship - to take on a sleeping giant lurching toward relegation from it.

Any illusions as to the scale of the task have swiftly been cleared by the results - a last gasp heartbreaker against local rivals Rotherham in a bottom-end six-pointer and then a crushing defeat by Reading.

"You don't get a quick fix, even though we need one," Moore told BBC Radio Sheffield.

"You try to drip feed information to the group without giving too much and making things complicated because it's takes time.

"I've started to see signs, they're an intelligent squad, they have ability but it's about consistency. It's about performance and then consistency of the performance. I'm trying to implement that."

Owls fans will not enjoy looking at this league table, which granted is influenced by the six-point deduction the club were handed for breaching the English Football League's spending rules.

With 11 games remaining once today's fixture is out of the way, there are still plenty of points to play for.

Birmingham's tumbling form is one possibly saving grace, but Wednesday still need to rediscover some winning form to drag themselves out of the mire.

Wins for Watford and Swansea in Saturday's games cut Norwich's buffer at the Championship summit.

However, it's still a reasonably comfortable lead - and the chasing pack will be fully aware that a win today would see the Canaries cruise back to a 10-point gap.

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Sheffield Wednesday look to end a six-game losing run in the Championship with former Canaries striker Jordan Rhodes starting against his old club up top.

Keiren Westwood, Joey Pelupessy and Adam Reach also return, with Joe Wildsmith, Celtic-bound Liam Shaw, Callum Paterson and the suspended Julian Borner also dropping out.

Norwich are understandably unchanged to start, as they hunt an eighth straight win in the second tier.

Sheff Wed: Westwood, Urhoghide, Palmer, Lees, Harris, Hutchinson, Pelupessy, Bannan, Reach, Windass, Rhodes

Substitutes: Wildsmith, Brennan, Penney, Brown, Hunt, Shaw, Kachunga, Marriott, Paterson

Norwich: Krul, Aarons, Hanley, Gibson, Giannoulis, Skipp, McLean, Buendia, Rupp, Cantwell, Pukki

Substitutes: Nyland, Zimmerman, Sorensen, Tettey, Vrancic, Hernandez, Dowall, Placheta, Hugill

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The final act of the Championship's 36th round of fixtures brings us to Hillsborough, for Sheffield Wednesday versus Norwich City.

At one time this was a meeting of sides in their top flight pomp.

For Wednesday, those days feel like hazy memories as they battle against relegation from the second tier.

By contrast, Norwich have genuine prospects of returning to the Premier League this season.

Two different priorities, same crucial need for points.