SUBSTITUTE Stephen Elliott bagged a brace and Grant Holt notched his 27th goal of the season as the Canaries bounced back to complete the double over play-off hopefuls Huddersfield at the Galpharm Stadium.
The Terriers took the lead in the first half through defender Neal Trotman after just two minutes and Lee Clark's side had chances to increase their lead as the home side took the first-half honours.
But you write Paul Lambert's City off at your peril and they duly stormed back to equalise as Holt fired home after the break.
On an afternoon when Leeds, Charlton and Colchester all lost, Elliott insured a great weekend for Canary fans everywhere as he struck twice after replacing Chris Martin in the 61st minute to claim an excellent victory and end Huddersfield's unbeaten home run
After the match a delighted Lambert told First News: "I thought we were brilliant. It took us 10 to 25 minutes to get going, Huddersfield to be fair came out of the traps really quickly. We lost the goal in the first minute or so, but after the first 15 to 20 minutes I thought we started to get on the ball and into the game and looked more like ourselves. And I thought second half we were outstanding.
"The lads showed great character not to wilt and kept on going and saw it through and it's a hard place to come, they haven't bean beat here all season, so I'm proud of them and what they've done - and the way we played I thought they were outstanding.
"Stephen Elliott came in and everyone could see his pace and what he's got and he has netted two marvellous goals. Grant's goal was monumental because it was his goal that got us back in the game, I thought he was back to his best and Darel Russell came in and I thought he was outstanding - I was delighted with every one of them out there."
City got off to the worst possible start to the game as they went behind with the game barely two minutes old. Huddersfield won a corner on their left and when Gary Roberts swung the flag-kick in to the near post, Neal Trotman beat a flat-footed Norwich defence to bundle the ball home from close range.
With the Canaries on the back foot they had a let-off on the quarter-hour when dangerman Jordan Rhodes fired narrowly wide from 14 yards out.
As the half progressed the Canaries began to get back into the game and Holt was inches away from equalising when his 34th-minute header from Lappin's cross flashed just wide of the far post.
A competitive encounter saw yellow cards dished out after the break to Darel Russell and Michael Nelson for City while Gary Roberts was cautioned for the home side.
Lambert replaced Chris Martin with on-loan Preston striker Stephen Elliott after the hour as the Canaries tried to force an equaliser against a resilient Huddersfield side.
But City displayed resilience of their own to claw their way back into the match on 69 minutes. A great move saw Korey Smith pick out Michael Rose sprinting down the left flank and the left-back played a neat ball into the path of Wes Hoolahan. The Irishman's clever low cut-back caught out the Terriers defence and Holt arrived with perfect timing to side-foot home from six yards.
And five minutes later City sent the 2,929 members of the Yellow Army into ecstacy as they powered into the lead. Hoolahan was again involved, playing a crafty ball over the top for Holt to run on to. The scorer of City's first turned provider as he held off his marker superbly before squaring for Elliott to gleefully steer home his first goal in Canary colours.
Fraser Forster was on hand to pull off a great save as the home side tried to respond, diving to his left smartly to parry Pilkington's shot in the 78th minute.
A minute later Michael Rose was the most relieved man in the stadium as his bad back-pass seemed to have given Novak a golden opportunity to level, but he combined with his defensive colleagues to get back and push Novak wide at the expense of a corner.
Any concerns about a possibly nervy finish were laid to rest when the Canaries struck again five minutes from time. Holt played a neat pass to Lappin in the box - and he picked out a perfectly-timed low ball into the six-yard area for Elliot to slide home for his second of the match.
Final score: Huddersfield 1 Norwich 3
90+4: 17,959 at the Galpharm today - 2,929 of them Canaries. Final whistle goes.
90+3: Holt released down right again and puts in another cross but too strong for Elliott who does collect on far side, but loses possession.
90+1: Good work by Smith on right leads to Holt putting in a cross, Elliott meets with a header but he can't get enough power on it and the Huddersfield 'keeper collects.
90th: Fourth official signals four minutes of injury time.
89th: Peter Clarke tries his luck from distance but it's comfortably wide, although Fraser Forster does fly across his goal to make sure.
87th: Second sub for Huddersfield - James Berrett replaces Lee Novak.
85th: Good spell by City. Lappin breaks free and cuts inside the area, pulls the ball back to Elliott who lifts over Smithies into the back of the net - 3-1!
79th: Mistake by Rose gifts the ball to Novak but the City defence drop back well to hold up the forward and Rose recovers to clear for corner.
78th; Excellent parry by Forster from Pilkington, whose curling effort was heading for far post.
77th: Rose's long ball out looks to find Elliott who isn't offside, but Smithies rushes out and clears the danger.
76th: Huddersfield corner. Roberts delivery goes straight across the goal and out.
74th: Russell lets fly from about 30-yards, but it's wide. Hoolahan passes out wide right to Holt who held off his marker before squaring to Stephen Elliott to tap home for his first City goal - 2-1 to the Canaries!
72nd: Korey Smith with a long-range effort, not strong enough to trouble Smithies. Theo Robinson replaces Jordan Rhodes for Huddersfield.
71st: Huddersfield go close, Roberts just putting it the wrong side of the post.
69th: Smith picks out Michael Rose on the left, Rose plays neat ball into Hoolahan, who cuts ball back to Grant Holt to side-foot home his 27th of the season from six-yards.
68th: Elliott controls on the right but goes to ground, the officials give a free-kick to Huddersfield adjudging the Irishman to have handled the ball on the floor.
66th: Holt brought down by Drinkwater in centre of field. Russell takes and finds Nelson but his header can't find a yellow shirt. Ball comes back in again and Nelson takes down on his chest but as he looks to shoot it's cleared, only to Doherty who slices his shot well wide.
63rd: Hoolahan wins free-kick and Roberts booked. Russell takes midway in Terriers' half - ball goes out to corner and Huddersfield attack, but the Canaries finally clear their lines.
61st: Stoppage in play as Huddersfield player gets treatment. Stephen Elliott replaces Chris Martin.
58th: Roberts whipped in low cross which took a kind deflection off Russell Martin and into the hands of Fraser Forster.
56th: Michael Nelson receives a talking to by the referee as a mis-timed challenge allowed Huddersfield an opportunity down the left - the referee played advantage and Gary Roberts put a cross in but it was met at the far post and headed wide.
53rd: Hoolahan flicks to Chris Martin who tries to feed his strike partner Holt, but City's leading scorer is just offside.
52nd: Russell Martin has a shot but it unfortunately deflects off Chris Martin and away.
51st: Good turn by Holt forces the Terriers' into a desperate clearance.
50th: Chris Martin does well on right and puts a good cross into Huddersfield box but no one there for City.
49th: Robert's with in-swinging corner, but foul given on Forster.
48th: Russell free-kick headed out as far as Lappin but his shot isn't strong enough to trouble Smithies. Russell booked for challenge mid-way in his own half for foul on Roberts. Rhodes' free-kick deflected wide for corner.
47th: Quick free-kick by Huddersfield from left. Novak makes a connection and Forster makes an important save.
46th: Good work by Korey Smith tries to set-up himself in the box but Huddersfield just clear. The Terriers attack stright away, Doherty clearing his lines well.
The Canaries kick-off the second half attacking towards the City fans - must be around 3,000 in the stand. No changes for either side.
'oh oh, red flags out...time to put Martin on the bench.. He will get in trouble.' - chrisalmera. Referring there to a heated confrontation involving Chris Martin, Neal Trotman and Peter Clarke as they walked off at half-time.
Half-time: Huddersfield 1 Norwich 0
All the top three in League One go in at half-time 1-0 down. Leeds losing at Southampton, Charlton behind at Millwall - meanwhile fourth placed Colchester are being held at 0-0 by 10-man Carlisle at Brunton Park.
45+1: Holt's cross flicked on with a looping backwards header by Chris Martin but Smithie claims.
45th: Hoolahan and Chris Martin combine but as the striker looks for Holt the ball drops unkindly and it's cleared by the Terriers.
43rd: Good break by City but Hoolahan can't escape a challenge and Huddersfield recover posession.
42nd: Norwich corner after Smithies punches under pressure from Nelson.
40th: Drinkwater with long-range shot but sails well-wide.
38th: Russell Martin cross looks for Lappin attacking at far post but Peltier clears from the Scot.
35th: City corner. Doherty header just dips over crossbar.
34th: Norwich respond with a good breaking move - Holt races down right and crosses over to Chris Martin but he's ushered away from the goal. Lappin then crosses in and Holt just heads wide of far post.
33rd: Huddersfield free-kick just inside City's half. The ball is initially cleared as it come in from Clarke, but falls to Trotman whose effort is defelcted by Russell for corner.
29th: Russell breaks through midfield and looks to pass out to C. Martin on left but Trotman manages to cut it out for a throw-in.
26th: 'McNamee can be considered very unlucky to be sitting on the bench having done well in the last three games. I think he may come on in the second half with Elliott' - swjfnor36
25th: Doherty caught in possession and Lee Novak tries a curling shot but it's well-wide of City's goal.
23rd: Korey Smith wins corner. Delivery from right cleared for City thow-in but comes to nothing.
20th: Pilkington effort punched by Forster. Swiftly followed by Drinkwater who's cross in City's box is cleared away by Doherty.
18th: City in possession - Martin puts ball across the edge of the Huddersfield box but both Smith and Holt can't quite stretch to collect - better by Norwich.
17th: 'Oh well! 1-0 to Lee Clark' - whatcrisis
16th: Free-kick to Norwich, foul on Holt. Michael Rose puts ball into box but again Smithies collects.
15th: Narrow miss for Canaries - Rhodes controls the ball in the box and turns but luckily places the ball just wide of Forster's post.
13th: R. Martin adjudged to have barged the defender as he was released down right by Korey Smith. Free-kick to Terriers.
11th: Doherty misses header in the box and Rhodes goes down in the box under Nelson's challenge. Ball comes back in and is cleared for a corner. Roberts delivers to far post and Nelson out for another corner. Short corner met again by Roberts who's tame shot is collected by Forster at his near post.
10th: Holt wins a corner off Pilkington. Lappin's delivery met by Holt but his shot is blocked and cleared.
7th: Huddersfield release quickly and Rhodes looks for the ball in the box but a good challenge by Michael Nelson clears the danger for City.
6th: Chris Martin and Lappin combine down the left but the Scot's cross is easily collected by Smithies in Town's goal.
2nd: Huddersfield have the first corner of the game and take the lead! Neal Trotman heads in Gary Roberts' corner. Bad defending at the near post and Trotman was there to bundle it into the back of the net.
The Terriers kick us off this afternoon - come on City! We're underway.
Teams now coming out of the tunnel to great applause.
Team News:
Darel Russell returns straight into the team after his three-match suspension - Anthony McNamee dropping to the bench to make way.
CITY: Forster, Doherty, Nelson, R. Martin, Rose, Lappin, Russell, Smith, Hoolahan, Holt, C. Martin (Elliott 61). Subs not used: Rudd, Drury, McVeigh, Hughes, Johnson, McNamee.
HUDDERSFIELD: Smithies, Peltier, Heffernan, Trotman, P. Clarke (c), Pilkington, Roberts, Collins, Drinkwater, Rhodes (Robinson 72), Novak (Berrett 87). Subs not used: Eastwood, N. Clarke, Kay, T. Clarke, Williams.
