Championship weekend preview: Opening day

Wolves v Norwich City

The final game of the opening weekend takes place at Molineux after two very contrasting seasons last term sees Wolves and Norwich meet in Championship action.

JS24969813If you asked most fans I am sure they would be glad to see Wolves back in the Championship. A club the size of Wolves should not be playing in the third tier, although it may have been the clean slate that the club needed to finally draw a line under the fledgling Premier League squad that remained at the club. Wolves confidently romped to the League 1 title claiming 103 points, 9 more than second placed Brentford. Just two new faces at the club in Tommy Rowe and Rajiv van La Parra as Kenny Jackett shows faith in his squad from last year that served him well in his first term at the helm.  Kevin McDonald was a pivotal part of the Wolves side last season and will play a similar role this time round. He controls the middle of the park and his high workrate allows the more creative players to go out and express themselves. McDonald is this game’s key man.

Norwich, another of the teams relegated from the Premier League last season, have gone out and spent big money in an attempt to power straight back to the top division. Lewis Grabban joins from Bournemouth and Kyle Lafferty from Italian side Palermo to support Gary Hooper who will surely lead the line for the Canaries this season. Fans will be pleased to see Ricky Van Wolfswinkel being loaned out to St Etienne, although the departure of Robert Snodgrass to Hull is an inevitable loss that fans feared. Nathan Redmond and Leroy Fer remain at Norwich for now and will cause lots of problems in the Championship after both having good seasons in the Premier League.

With Norwich’s new attacking options and the goal threat Wolves posed last season this could be an absolute classic to kick the season off on Sunday.

Score prediction: 2-2 draw

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