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Swansea, as mentioned, have not been in competitive action since the goalless draw with Huddersfield in the Championship on December 12, which left them in eighth position in the table on 31 points.
The Welsh outfit have actually drawn four of their last five in the league, sharing the points with Bristol City, Wigan Athletic, Birmingham City and Huddersfield, with their last victory coming at home to Cardiff City on October 23.
Swansea are level on points with sixth-placed Queens Park Rangers and just two points behind fourth-placed Watford, so they are in a strong position in the table at this stage of the campaign.
Russell Martin‘s side played a mid-season friendly against Dundee United on December 3, with Jamie Paterson and Ryan Manning on the scoresheet for the Welsh outfit, with the match coming at the end of a week-long training camp in Scotland.
Swansea have lost three of their last four matches against Norwich, which have all come in the Championship, but they recorded a 2-0 victory when the two teams last locked horns in February 2021.
Swansea have had four players away at the World Cup, with Joe Allen, Ben Cabango and Olivier Ntcham selected for the competition, while Ollie Cooper travelled with Wales as a standby.
Cabango, Ntcham and Cooper are expected to be available for this match, but there is a slight doubt over Allen, who could be forced to sit this one out due to an ongoing hamstring problem.
Head coach Martin could potentially name the same XI that took to the field against Huddersfield last time out, with Joel Piroe, who has five Championship goals this season, leading the line.
As for Norwich, Andrew Omobamidele, Adam Idah, Jon Rowe and Jakob Sorensen remain unavailable for selection through injury.
Josh Sargent was in action for the USA at the 2022 World Cup, making three appearances at the competition, but he missed out against the Netherlands through injury, and the forward, who has scored nine Championship goals this season, is a doubt for this contest.
Onel Hernandez could therefore start alongside Teemu Pukki in the final third of the field, although Joe Hugill is another option to feature in the front two.
Swansea City possible starting lineup:
Benda; Wood-Gordon, Darling, Cabango; Latibeaudiere, Grimes, Fulton, Manning; Cooper, Piroe, Ntcham
Norwich City possible starting lineup:
Gunn; Aarons, Hanley, Gibson, McCallum; Sara, Hayden, McLean, Ramsey; Pukki, Hernandez
In the week that the Bulls lost their most famous ex-player, FA Cup legend Ronnie Radford – 50 years on from his iconic match-winning goal against Newcastle – it briefly looked like there might be some left-over magic in the air.
For seven minutes, the sixth-tier outfit led after Miles Storey’s goal against the team 81 places above them in the English football pyramid in League One.
But Pompey hit back, with Reeco Hackett quickly levelling before second-half goals from Colby Bishop and substitute Joe Pigott earned the twice FA Cup winners a safe passage to Monday’s second-round draw
Making their first trip to Edgar Street in 38 years, Pompey were given a good first-half workout by the fired-up hosts.
Although home keeper Dale Eve had to keep out Hackett’s left-foot curler bound for the top corner, Pompey had a first real scare when Bishop’s challenge on Hereford’s former million-pound marksman Tyrone Barnett in the visitors’ penalty box went unpunished.
And there was worse to follow for Pompey when Hereford took the lead on 26 minutes.
Sean Raggett played a loose pass inside to Hackett, who was immediately closed down and robbed by Storey – and the former Pompey player raced away down the inside-left channel before keeping his cool to nutmeg on-loan West Bromwich Albion keeper Josh Griffiths.
Fittingly, just two days on from the announcement of the sad passing of Hereford’s legendary number 11, their modern-day number 11 emulated his predecessor.
There had already been a minute’s silence, which cascaded into applause from the whole ground, followed by chants of ‘there’s only one Ronnie Radford’ when the clock showed 11 minutes.
But this goal was destined not to prove so famous.
Ronan Curtis headed down Connor Ogilvie’s far-post cross for Hackett to bring down and fire home coolly from six yards.
On 63 minutes, Portsmouth took the lead when, from Clark Robertson’s in-swinging right-foot corner from the left, Bishop timed his run to get there first and head his 10th goal of the season.
And Pigott wrapped up victory 10 minutes from time when, again from a corner by skipper Robertson, Bishop won the initial header before Pigott reacted sharpest to sidefoot home
Hereford FC boss Josh Gowling told BBC Sport:
“I’m really disappointed because we should have got something out of it, but goals change games – and the quality of the delivery they have changes games.
“In the first half we were excellent. We were in the ascendancy and they looked nervous.
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“We were on top and looked like we could go on and win, but we’ve made one mistake, it has cost us a goal and that’s the difference in levels.
“We’ve given them a leg up and a little lift and you could see their performance raise after that.”
Portsmouth boss Danny Cowley told BBC Sport:
“I was so sad to hear the news about Ronnie Radford. He was such an iconic figure and he had that iconic moment. For a lot of people my age, his famous goal was their first memories of the FA Cup. But what a brilliant night to celebrate his life