Sheffield United vs Norwich City

Isaac Hayden makes his first start for Norwich City in their Championship meeting with Sheffield United this afternoon. The Newcastle United loanee has...

Substitutes: Amissah (GK), McBurnie, Khadra, Robinson, Doyle, Ndiaye, Buyabu. [Click here to view our NCFC Live blog](https://app.pinkun.com/t/news/latestnews), bringing you minute-by-minute updates from Carrow Road, or access it via the Pink Un+ app on your mobile device. Kenny McLean misses out after City's appeal against a red card in midweek failed.

Sheffield United have made four changes for their Championship clash at home to Norwich City this afternoon.

[Billy Sharp](/topic/billy-sharp), John Fleck, Rhian Brewster and James McAtee all start, while young left wing-back Jill Buyabu is on the bench. [Oli McBurnie](/topic/oli-mcburnie), and James McAtee also drop to the bench. He has made five starts and two substitute appearances for the Blades’ U21s this season.

Norwich City begin a tough double header of Championship away games with a trip to face Sheffield United at Bramall Lane - and you can follow all the...

Defender Andrew Omobamidele is expected to remain out until after the World Cup break. - 1 -

Norwich City are winless in their last four Championship outings and head to promotion rivals Sheffield United looking to return to winning ways.

As recently as a couple of weeks ago, both sides looked set to battle for automatic promotion after strong starts saw them occupy the top two positions in the table. The Canaries head coach added: "It's a nasty looking ankle at the moment but he [Andrew Omobamidele] should be back after the World Cup. Elsewhere, left-back Dimi Giannoulis made his first appearance after almost three months out injured last time out but Smith instantly shut down suggestion that he could start against the Blades, saying: "It would be a push to start him. [Dean Smith tells Norwich City how Luton Town will play ahead of Carrow Road Championship clash](https://www.norfolklive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/dean-smith-norwich-city-luton-7714095) [Dean Smith highlights 'mistakes' that cost Norwich City during defeat to Watford](https://www.norfolklive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/dean-smith-norwich-city-watford-7709825) [Sky Sports' EFL pundit offers Norwich City prediction ahead of Watford trip](https://www.norfolklive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/pundit-norwich-city-watford-prediction-7706051) [Norwich City vs Blackburn fixture selected for television 24 hours before 2022 World Cup final](https://www.norfolklive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/norwich-city-blackburn-world-cup-7699920) [The 60-year EFL rule change that could land Norwich City with financial windfall](https://www.norfolklive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/efl-rule-change-norwich-city-7695705) [Speaking to the press](https://www.canaries.co.uk/content/team-news-sargent-available-for-bramall-lane) ahead of the Norfolk outfit's trip to Sheffield United, Smith said: "Sargent's fine, he's training today" whilst adding that midfielder Kieran Dowell "has laryngitis but other than that everyone else has been training." The American was replaced at half-time of Tuesday's 1-0 defeat at home to Luton Town with a chest injury but will be fit to make the trip to south Yorkshire according to his manager.

Report and free match highlights from the Sky Bet Championship clash between Sheffield United and Norwich City at Bramall Lane as the Blades came from two ...

We've stopped the rot in terms of defeats but we're disappointed to not come away with the win." We let it become a bit of a basketball game, which we didn't need to do, but the game should have been put to bed by then. We want to play on the front foot and we may give opportunities away. We defended and attacked in the same way, we just had more aggression in the second half. We wanted to draw United onto us and I thought we did that very well. Our centre-backs won more headers and tried to stop them playing in the space behind but Norwich probably had better opportunities in the second half on the counter.

Dean Smith, the Norwich City manager, admitted he told Sheffield United's bench to “deal with your own players” during an ill-tempered contest at Bramall ...

“(Oliver) Norwood can run the game, he’s one of their best players and for 75 minutes we stopped him from running it. [The Star](https://www.thestar.co.uk/author/james-shield) if the 44-year-old and his coaching staff had a “legitimate” grievance about the conduct of both the match officials and City players. “To be fair, game-plan wise I’m okay with it,” said Smith, whose City side are sixth. But United, who remain without a win since the international break, came storming back when Osborn reduced the deficit and then McBurnie, introduced as a substitute, equalised. But he was also adamant that Billy Sharp, who provided the assist for Osborn’s strike, should have been dismissed rather than booked for treading on Dimitris Giannoulis. City, who had travelled to South Yorkshire on the back of the three match losing streak, appeared destined to enjoy a comfortable afternoon when Teemu Pukki scored twice early on; the first of his efforts being presented to him by United’s Adam Davies.

Norwich City were denied an important win against Sheffield United by a second half come back from the Blades.