Norwich City and West Bromwich Albion shared the points in a 1-1 draw at Carrow Road on Valentine's Day, a result that neither side will find particularly satisfying given how the contest shifted across ninety minutes.
West Brom took an early grip. Krystian Bielik put the visitors ahead on fourteen minutes, and Paris Maghoma doubled the advantage just before the half-hour mark, leaving Norwich with considerable ground to recover. The hosts looked short of ideas in the first half and offered little to suggest they would find a way back.
The second half brought significant changes. Alex Mowatt was withdrawn at the interval alongside goalkeeper Max O'Leary, and the reshuffled West Brom were less assured thereafter. Norwich pulled one back through Mohamed Touré on sixty-one minutes, then Anis Slimane levelled almost immediately after, reducing the deficit to one goal within seconds of Touré's finish. Harry Darling and Sam Field had already been booked for West Brom, restricting their options as the game opened up.
A flurry of substitutions in the seventieth minute onwards disrupted the rhythm of both sides. Norwich pressed for an equaliser and Touré found his second of the afternoon in stoppage time, forcing a share of the spoils.
West Brom will feel they let a commanding lead slip. Norwich will accept the point, though they made their own task unnecessarily difficult through a passive opening forty-five minutes.
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