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  • Kick-off: 14:00
  • Venue: Hillsborough
  • Attendance: 36208
  • Referee: Clattenburg, M

Live Commentary

90mins

That's it, it's all over, the referee has blown the final whistle.

87mins

Goal!! Sheff Wed have scored with Leon Clarke putting it in the back of the net.

82mins

Sheff Wed are replacing Ben Sahar with Leon Clarke.

76mins

Goal!! Deon Burton scores for Sheff Wed.

73mins

Jon Otsemobor is being taken off, Alex Pearce has come on in his place.

73mins

The referee has booked Sean McAllister.

66mins

Norwich are replacing Dion Dublin with Jamie Cureton.

59mins

Matty Pattison is replaced by Lee Croft.

55mins

Sheff Wed are replacing Steve Watson with Graham Kavanagh.

55mins

Sheff Wed are replacing Franck Songo'o with Sean McAllister.

53mins

Goal!! Ben Sahar scores for Sheff Wed.

46mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 1 v 1.

45mins

Half time whistle is blown by M Clattenburg

34mins

Jermaine Johnson goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.

23mins

Deon Burton takes a penalty for Sheff Wed and scores!.

9mins

Goal!! Darren Huckerby scores for Norwich.

0mins

It's 2pm on Sunday, May 4th, the match has kicked off.

Match Report

Deon Burton scored twice as Sheffield Wednesday bounced back from an early shock to secure Championship football for next season.

Wednesday manager Brian Laws had refused to rely on other results and demanded a victory against Norwich City to make sure his side avoided the drop.

Laws, who has worked wonders after a calamitous injury list left his side flirting with relegation for a large part of the season, breathed a sigh of relief as his side struck three second-half goals.

Norwich, already safe after a 3-0 win over QPR eight days ago, broke the deadlock in the ninth minute, after Dion Dublin's trickery had left a gaping hole in the Wednesday rearguard.

Darren Huckerby burst through from midfield, as makeshift full-back Jermaine Johnson gave him too much space. Dublin played a neat dummy to allow the Norwich winger to run on, before coolly slotting the ball beyond Lee Grant from 12 yards.

Dublin, playing his last game before bringing a 23-year career to a close, almost scored when his header flashed inches wide from Darel Russell's precise cross before Wednesday were back on level terms in the 23rd minute.

Burton's surge into the area was ended by a lunging tackle from centre-back Jason Shackell and Burton sent keeper David Marshall the wrong way from the spot to register his eighth goal of the season.

On-loan striker Bartosz Slusarski carved out a half-chance as Wednesday slowly recovered from their nervy start but with three defenders in pursuit he dragged the ball wide of the far post from 16 yards.

Wednesday took the lead in the 53rd minute, Ben Sahar steering Slusarski's low cross beyond Marshall from close range.

Huckerby should have scored when he ran through unmarked only to fire wide before Burton calmed the home fans' nerves 14 minutes from time when he turned Tommy Spurr's deep cross over the line from four yards out before substitute Leon Clarke added a fourth with three minutes to go.

Sheffield Wednesday Team

Norwich City Team

Sheffield Wednesday

Norwich City

Corners

54

Fouls

82

Goal attempts

1210

Shots off target

57

Offsides

22

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