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​NORWICH V WEST BROMWICH ALBION: Rondon strike lifts Baggies past Norwich

Salmon Rondon scored shortly after halftime to hand West Bromwich Albion a 1-0 win over Norwich City at Carrow Road on Saturday.

Rondon's 46th minute header from James McLean's cross proved to be all that separated the two sides in a tightly contested fixture.

Norwich's best chances came through Nathan Redmond, who forced a superb save from Baggies shot stopper Boaz Myhill.

The result sees West Brom jump up to eighth place on the Premier League ladder, while the Canaries continue to remain stagnant in 16th place.

MATCH OVERVIEW
Norwich: 0

West Brom: 1 (Rondon 46')
Carrow Road, Norwich – 26,983

TALKING POINTS
The loss to West Brom was Norwich's third consecutive Premier League defeat and things do not get any easy for the Canaries, with three of their next four matches including away trips to Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal.

West Brom have hit a mini purple patch this past fortnight, with back-to-back clean sheet wins in their last two Premier League fixtures.

WHAT'S NEXT?

West Brom host Leicester City on Saturday, while Norwich travel to the Etihad Stadium to face Manchester City.

TWITTER INSIGHT

QUOTES CORNER

West Brom manager Tony Pulis reflects on his side's defensive effort:

"The defenders do a lot of work on the training ground, we work very hard on certain aspects.

"We talk about it because of the record I have got but we also work hard going forward and today we got our reward. The quality of our play going forward was very, very good at times.

"We also thought we should have had a penalty and we had a couple of headers as well."

Norwich boss Alex Neil speaks about turning around his side's form slump:

"I wouldn't say it is worrying times. It is not a nice time, I have never even lost two league games in a row, never mind three.

"Yes, you are concerned, I'm looking at what I can do to put it right. I'm trying to do everything I can and I'm working as hard as I can and it is about making sure when the lads are on the pitch they do as well as they can.


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