Norwich City team news: The players set to miss Swansea match
Norwich take on Swansea next in the Championship
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Norwich City has had a decent start to the Championship season, currently sitting seventh in the league.
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Josh Sargent and Ashley Barnes will both be absent from the team due to injury.
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Norwich’s defense will remain consistent, but Grant Hanley, Marcelino Nunez, and Jacob Sorensen will also miss the Swansea match.
Norwich City take on Swansea City next up in the Sky Bet Championship, as the Yellows travel to the Welsh club on
Wednesday evening.
The Canaries, who are presently ranked seventh in the league, will be satisfied with the start to their second tier campaign this year.
They naturally want to contend for automatic promotion, as they have frequently in previous years, but the season is far from over and
the eight point deficit they currently have over league leaders Leicester City can easily be overcome.
The team that David Wagner’s team will face next is Swansea, who are currently struggling to establish themselves in the
Championship this season.
Finally off the mark for wins against Sheffield Wednesday a couple of games ago, they followed that up with victory against Millwall
last time out, and will be looking to make it three from three on Wednesday in front of their home fans.
Here, though, we’re focusing on Norwich and this is the latest team news for the Yellows ahead of their trip west to south Wales….
Josh Sargent a long-term absentee
Josh Sargent will once again miss out with him continuing to recover from injury.
An integral member of the team last year, Sargent was the club’s top scorer in the 2022/23 campaign but has found minutes limited
hugely this season thanks to him requiring surgery on an ankle injury.
He is expected to be out until the new year because of that, and will be focusing on making as swift a recovery as possible.
Ashley Barnes update
Ashley Barnes, another attacking player, is also anticipated to be absent.
The former Burnley player has a knee injury and won’t be back for a few more weeks. It’s likely that he won’t return until at least the
end of the year’s final international break, which is in November.
Other Norwich fitness news…
In better news, Angus Gunn should again feature after he shook off a shoulder injury to play in the win over Birmingham City at the
weekend, meaning the Norwich defence should remain consistent to what it has been for much of this season so far.
Indeed, that in part if because Grant Hanley is also among those still sidelined thanks to an injury, whilst Marcelino Nunez and Jacob
Sorensen are also set to miss out on the trip to Wales.
That’s how things are looking for Norwich ahead of Wednesday night, then, and David Wagner will be hoping the side he picks for
tomorrow’s clash will be able to get the job done as we move towards double figures for league matches played in this season’s campaign.
As mentioned, the Yellows will be content enough with the start they have made but with the table so typically congested at this point
in the season, they know that any dropped points could see them reeled in quickly by those below them, with several sides just three
points back as we move into the next round of games.
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