Next! Norwich Away

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QPR travel to Glen Roeder/Jamie Cureton's Norwich on Wednesday, Norwich of course, having a special (sad)place in QPR history. This season,Norwich have drawn their two home games (and away from home have won one; lost one and drawn one). - - Norwich Results This Season --- League Table -- Norwich current top goalscorer is Arturo Lupoli with three goals.

The Referee/Linesmen for Norwich vs QPR: RL SHOEBRIDGE - S Creighton and J D A Hopkins - Fourth Official R Beevor - League

On Saturday, Norwich picked up their first league win of the season, winning 2-1 at Plymouth: Norwich: Marshall, Omozusi, Kennedy, Stefanovic, Bertrand, Pattison, Russell (Croft 89), Fotheringham, Hoolahan (Grounds 79), Lupoli (Cureton 53), Sibierski. Subs Not Used: Nelson, Koroma - Match Report

Last QPR vs Norwich Encounter: In April, QPR travelled to Norwich lost 0-3 (Ched Evans, linked by some QPR messageboard posters to QPR man of the match). QPR's team from that game: Camp, Delaney, Mahon, Stewart, Mancienne, Blackstock, Ainsworth (Leigertwood), Rowlands, Connolly, Ephraim (Rehman), Balanta. - Match Reports from Norwich 3 QPR 0

- Past Results between Norwich and QPR

- Players who played for both QPR and Norwich - Played for both (and this doesn't include Mark Falco)

Norwich First Team Squad (
1 David Marshall Goalkeeper
2 Jon Otsemobor Defender
3 Adam Drury Defender
5 John Kennedy
(on loan from Celtic ) Defender
6 Dejan Stefanovic Defender
7 Lee Croft Midfielder
8 Sammy Clingan Midfielder
9 Antoine Sibierski
(on loan from Wigan ) Midfielder
10 Jamie Cureton Striker
11 Luke Chadwick Midfielder
12 Gary Doherty Defender
13 Declan Rudd Goalkeeper
14 Wesley Hoolahan Midfielder
15 Jonathan Grounds
(on loan from Boro ) Defender
16 Mark Fotheringham Midfielder
17 David Bell Midfielder
18 Arturo Lupoli
(on loan from Fiotina ) Striker
19 Simon Lappin Midfielder
20 Darel Russell Midfielder
21 Ryan Bertrand
(on loan from Chelsea ) Defender
22 Elliot Omozusi
(on loan from Fulham ) Defender
23 Omar Koroma
(on loan from Portsm ) Striker
24 Matthew Pattison Midfielder
25 Stuart Nelson Goalkeeper
26 Robert Eagle Midfielder
27 Troy Archibald-Henville
(on loan from Spurs ) Defender
28 Michael Spillane
(on loan to Luton ) Defender
30 Korey Smith Midfielder
33 Kris Renton Striker
35 Chris Martin
(on loan to Luton ) Striker
36 Damon Lathrope Midfielder
39 Luke Daley Striker
Norwich


Norwich/EDP24 - Russell surgery details revealed
Glenn Roeder is crossing his fingers that Darel Russell will emerge from his weekend's work unscathed after revealing that the City midfielder underwent surgery on a double hernia just 10 days ago.
Russell put in almost a full shift at Home Park - dropping back to midfield to replace the injured Sammy Clingan ­ - despite still suffering the after-effects of surgery in Germany.
Now Roeder has to hope that he will be fit enough to face QPR at Carrow Road on Wednesday - three days before Sheffied United come to town.
"I played him longer than I thought," said Roeder, who was desperate to protect City's lead in the final stages at Plymouth.
"I was going to play him for 60 minutes today, but we needed to keep his psychical presence on the pitch because we knew with Plymouth chasing the game they would be lobbing the ball in at every opportunity from all different angles.
"From set plays it is not going to come in slow it is going to come in quick, plenty of pace on it and we needed his physical presence, so for him to last as long as he did I think he deserves a real pat on the back.
"I just hope we have not over-cooked him for Wednesday."
City had kept a lid on Russell's absence for almost a fortnight, and managed to deflect inquiries in the middle of last week.
"How we kept that secret I do not know," admitted the Canaries' manager.
"In the end one or two had an idea, but for the good of the club we didn't want Plymouth to know that."
Russell was operated on by the same surgeon who once treated Newcastle's Alan Shearer.
"She devised a technique that has made her considered the best surgeon of hernias in the world," said Roeder.
"Alan Shearer had a similar operation a few years ago at Newcastle and he played in 10 days.
"He (Russell) has been very focused on getting himself back for today and he was still touch and go yesterday and this morning.
"He is obviously still in pain. He was in a lot of pain while he was playing as a striker, but the pain was because of the tears he had on either side that created the hernias.
"Now he is in pain because of the operation.
"The way the lady does it, I think she puts mesh in and stitches it very finely - so there is going to be pain there, but it's a pain where he can't do any more damage," Roeder added. EDP24