Once more flying out of the gates, the Canaries were two goals ahead after only 10 minutes. After a period of sustained Norwich pressure, Rose gave Gabriel Sara's corner the finishing touch as Grant Hanley focused on him. The second came after a free-flowing Norwich attack, when Dowell, following Sargent's deft pass, found a wide-open Hernandez in the box.
The Cuban appeared to have the ball caught beneath his boots, but he maintained his composure long enough to escape Brooke Norton-attention Cuffy's and score his first goal since August by shooting through a mass of defenders.
Tim Krul nearly provided the Sky Blues with a way back into the game, but Gustavo Hamer was unable to capitalize on the Dutchman's error. Once more flying out of the gates, the Canaries were two goals ahead after only 10 minutes.
After a period of sustained Norwich pressure, Rose gave Gabriel Sara's corner the finishing touch as Grant Hanley focused on him. The second came after a free-flowing Norwich attack, when Dowell, following Sargent's deft pass, found a wide-open Hernandez in the box.
The Cuban appeared to have the ball caught beneath his boots, but he maintained his composure long enough to escape Brooke Norton-attention Cuffy's and score his first goal since August by shooting through a mass of defenders.
Tim Krul nearly provided a way back into the game for the Sky Blues, but Gustavo Hamer was unable to take advantage of the Dutchman's shoddy clearing. In the 16th minute, Sargent gave Coventry a warning shot when Ben Wilson was forced to deflect the American's shot around the post. The former Werder Bremen player nailed it on the second attempt.
After 18 minutes, Teemu Pukki drove to the byline and squared for Sargent to score Norwich's third goal off of Sara's deft outside-of-the-foot pass. Nearly instantly, a response was given. Jake Bidwell deflected Palmer's deep cross into the path of Allen, who volleyed into the top corner to cut the deficit.
Eight minutes after Coventry found themselves three goals down, Palmer, who had contributed significantly to the opening goal, trimmed the margin to one.
Viktor Gyokeres was set up by Norton-right-wing Cuffy's cross, and his careless touch unintentionally set up Palmer to side-foot his second goal in as many outings.
Hernandez was giving Coventry a lot of trouble with his left-side movement, and he was given a fantastic opportunity to give Norwich some breathing room once more but could only lift his attempt over the crossbar.
Hernandez almost gave the Canaries a similar start to the second half as he dug out an inviting cross for Max Aarons at the back post. Aarons then nearly doubled his tally.
Dowell got the last word when he gave Norwich some breathing room once more by latching onto a cut-back from former Sky Blue Sam McCallum and hammering in a fourth. Both Pukki and Allen squandered good opportunities to add to the score in the closing minutes.
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