Norwich City return to Carrow Road for the first time since July for the inaugural home game of the 2020-21 Championship season.
Our match preview takes a closer look at this weekend’s visitors, the officials in charge of the match, and how supporters can watch the action from home.
The opposition
After finishing last season ninth in the Championship, Alex Neil’s side had a relatively strong pre-season, which included draws against Tranmere Rovers, Burnley and Sheffield United, as well as a win against Salford City and defeat to Everton.
Among those friendlies came a 4-0 Carabao Cup first round win at home to Mansfield Town, but celebrations were somewhat hampered when the league campaign began.
Swansea City were the visitors at the Deepdale Stadium for the first league game of the season, and it was Morgan Gibbs-White who got the game’s only goal to take all three points back to Wales.
But Tuesday night's Carabao Cup second round game at Derby County brought better fortunes, with Preston winning 2-1 through a stoppage time penalty from Daniel Johnson.
Head-to-head
In the 54 meetings between Norwich and Preston since 1961, there have been 21 Norwich wins, 17 Preston wins and 16 draws.
Last time we met, an Adam Idah hat-trick secured progress to the fourth round of the FA Cup with a 4-2 win at the Deepdale Stadium in January 2020.
In Preston’s previous visit to Carrow Road, the Canaries emerged 2-0 victors thanks to goals from Teemu Pukki and Alexander Tettey.
Ref watch
John Brooks has been appointed to take charge of Saturday's game, with Akil Howson and Nick Greenhalgh his assistants and George Byrne the fourth official.
Brooks last officiated a Norwich City game for our thrilling 3-3 draw at home to Nottingham Forest in December 2018, when Onel Hernandez scored two goals in stoppage time to rescue a point.
How to follow
The game will be available to watch in full on the our iFollow video platform this weekend. All season ticket holders have been sent a unique complimentary iFollow promotional code to their registered email address.
To find out more about redeeming your iFollow promotional code and how to update your email address click here.
For those supporters who are not due to receive a complimentary promotional code, a Match Pass can be purchased for £10. The Match Pass will allow supporters access to the live video feed of the game.
Prior to the match starting, our free-to-air pre-match show NR1 LIVE will be broadcast across our Facebook, YouTube and Twitter channels from 2.30pm.
Supporters will then have to switch over to their iFollow accounts to watch the game, before tuning back into NR1 LIVE for the half-time and post-match discussion with host Darren Eadie and guests.
By clicking the cog icon on the video player and selecting ‘away audio’, fans will be able to tune into live commentary from BBC Radio Norfolk’s Chris Goreham.
Otherwise, Norwich City's website and social channels on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram will provide regular updates.
To learn more about the variety of passes on offer to supporters this season, click here.
If you have any questions around our iFollow service, please check out answers to some FAQs here. Alternatively, please email ifollow@efl.com.
