Norwich City v Burnley: Follow live Championship updates

Norwich City face a major test of their promotion credentials at Carrow Road this lunchtime as they welcome pacesetting Burnley in the lunchtime kick-off. 

Canaries head coach David Wagner takes charge of his first Championship match at Carrow Road this afternoon and will be hoping to continue the fine form that saw Norwich sweep Coventry and Preston aside in recent weeks. 

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Standing in their way is Vincent Kompany’s Burnley, who are sitting pretty at the division’s summit and are 20 points ahead of City before this fixture. The Clarets have won their last eight league matches but were forced to an FA Cup fourth-round replay against Ipswich Town last weekend. 

Norwich have a chance to move up to third with a victory, with the majority of their Championship play-off rivals playing later this weekend. 

City will be without new dad Ben Gibson, Sam Byram (hamstring), Jon Rowe (ankle), Przemek Placheta (shin) and goalkeeper Angus Gunn who has been ruled out with a hip injury. 

New signing Marquinhos is available for selection, as is Christos Tzolis, who returned from his loan at FC Twente at the request of Wagner. Dimi Giannoulis has also shaken off a calf injury to feature. 

In the reverse of this fixture back in October, Norwich were beaten 1-0 by Burnley courtesy of a late Jay Rodriguez penalty. 

City will be desperate to prove their positive early form under Wagner is more than just a new manager bounce and seek to send a statement to the rest of the division by becoming just their third team to beat Burnley this season. 

A win for Wagner would make him the first City boss since Bruce Rioch to win his opening three league games in charge of the club. 

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