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Norwich City vs Wolves
 1 - 1 
Date: 
29/12/2007
Venue: 
Carrow Road
Attendance: 
24300
Referee: 
L Probert

Norwich City 1 (Cureton 75)

Wolves 1 (Keogh 52)

A much improved performance from Wolves perhaps deserved better than the single point they took from Carrow Road, where they had dominated for much of the game.

Andy Keogh headed the visitors into a 52nd minute lead with Jamie Cureton pulling the Canaries level a quarter-of-an-hour from the end.

Wolves, wearing their all white away kit, made three changes to the team that had lost so disappointingly at Hull.

Back into the starting line-up came Darron Gibson, Stephen Ward and Michael Gray, whilst the men they replaced - Freddy Eastwood, Matt Jarvis and Rob Edwards - were all named as substitutes.

After just three minutes, former Molineux defender Mo Camara was booked for a late challenge on Jay Bothroyd.

Stephen Ward had two stabs at goal after Keogh had nodded on Bothroyd's cross but first Jason Shackell and then Darel Russell blocked the Irishman's shots.

Keogh's persistence won the first corner of the game in the ninth minute. Bothroyd took the kick but Neill Collins' header went over the bar.

Darren Huckerby tried his luck from long distance but his effort was way too high before Collins had to turn behind a dangerous centre from Ched Evans when play switched to the other end.

Darren Ward interrupted Cureton's run at goal by guiding the ball back for Wayne Hennessey to clear,

Seyi Olofinjana went into the book after he had fouled Huckerby on the Norwich left before Darren Ward's long clearance almost led to an opening goal.

Bothroyd and Keogh were both in offside positions and whilst neither went for the ball, Stephen Ward, clearly onside, nipped between two defenders but his header over home keeper David Marshall drifted wide of the post.

Collins connected with a Bothroyd corner, in the 34th minute. His initial header was blocked and when the ball dropped to his feet, Collins' shot hit the body of Marshall and bounced away.

The home defence failed to clear the ball properly and when it ran to Bothroyd he volleyed over the bar.

A foul by Huckerby on Keogh to the right of the home area resulted in a Bothroyd free-kick which was headed out to Karl Henry whose shot had the sting taken out of it when it hit a defender allowing Marshall to save comfortably.

Shackell was yellow carded for a heavy tackle on Keogh, then Marshall clutched the ball under the bar after Stephen Ward got a head to Gibson's centre.

In stoppage time City almost snatched an undeserved lead when Huckerby just failed to make contact with the ball after Jimmy Smith's overhead kick from Cureton's centre.

Half-Time: Canaries 0 Wolves 0

Wolves began the second-half as confidently as they had at the start of the game and they moved into a 52nd minute lead with a first away goal since the victory at Cardiff in October.

Gray curled over a cross from the left and Keogh rose to head past the static Marshall.

Matty Pattison was booked for tripping Gray before Stephen Ward just failed to reach a low cross from Olofinjana who had run onto a pass from Bothroyd.

Henry and Gibson both were both shown the yellow card within a two minute spell for fouls on Huckerby and Pattison respectively.

The high tempo of the game showed little sign of abating and after Bothroyd had fired a 20-yard angled shot into the arms of Marshall, home substitute Lee Croft hit a low centre that travelled across the face of Hennessey's goal.

Twenty minutes from time, Stephen Ward's excellent solo effort almost saw Wolves going two up. He took the ball from halfway holding off three challenges before shooting inches wide of the far post.

Hennessey then made a fine save from Dion Dublin who had taken a return pass from Cureton. But the keeper was beaten in the 75th minute when Dublin nodded on Shackell's long clearance to Cureton.

The striker ran into the box before hitting a shot that Hennessey managed to divert onto the inside of the post only for ball to bounce into the net.

Five minutes later, Cureton prodded a shot wide after taking advantage of a kind bounce, and Pattison's free-kick was claimed by Hennessey after Olofinjana had been harshly penalised for a foul on Croft.

Deep into stoppage time, Bothroyd almost snatched a winner as he outpaced two men in a run in from the right before hitting a shot from point blank range that bounced clear off Gary Doherty.

Canaries: Marshall, Otsemobor, Shackell, Huckerby (Brown 84), Cureton, Camara, Smith (Croft 50), Russell (capt), Pattison, Doherty, Evans (Dublin 56).

Unused subs: Arnold, Spillane.

Bookings: Camara (3 - foul), Shackell (37 - foul), Pattison (54 - foul).

Wolves; Hennessey, Foley, Gray (Edwards 88), Olofinjana, D. Ward, Collins, Henry (capt), Gibson, Keogh (Elliott 73), Bothroyd, S. Ward.

Unused subs: Ikeme, Jarvis, Eastwood.

Bookings: Olofinjana (26 - foul), Henry (59 - foul), Gibson (60 - foul), S. Ward (88 - foul).

Referee: L. Probert.

Attendance: 24,324.

nd
Wolves take a point after Canaries a hit back to cancel out Keogh goal.
 Match Information
 
  Norwich Wolverhampton
Goals : 1 1
Possession : 56% 44%
Shots On Target : 3 7
Shots Off Target : 6 10
Corners : 4 6
Fouls : 8 16
Most Fouls : Huckerby (3) Olofinjana (4)
Yellow Cards : 3 4
Red Cards : 0 0
 
Scorers :
Cureton 75
Keogh 52
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