Report | Canaries back to winning ways against Birmingham

Norwich City ended their run of three consecutive defeats with a 2-0 win against Birmingham City at Carrow Road.

Norwich City ended their run of three consecutive defeats with a 2-0 win against Birmingham City at Carrow Road.

Gabriel Sara and Jonathan Rowe scored the goals in the space of five second half minutes to give Norwich the three points.

David Wagner made one change to the line-up from the defeat at Plymouth Argyle in the last league outing - Przemysław Płacheta came in for Hwang Ui-Jo.

The first real sight of goal came after 15 minutes when Adam Idah held off Dion Sanderson well before firing an effort from the edge of the box, but it was just outside the post much to John Ruddy's relief.

A wayward header back to the goalkeeper almost allowed Dimi Giannoulis the chance to open the scoring soon after. He lifted the ball over Ruddy but again it fell outside the post.

Both would come close again in the first half with Idah having a header saved before Giannoulis put an effort over after a smart run was picked out by Sara.

As the half came to a close, Christian Fassnacht warmed Ruddy's hands with a curling effort from distance before Płacheta was unable to get his head on the ball at the back post from a corner.

The second half started with a goalmouth scramble after a corner but Birmingham had enough bodies back to keep the ball out of the net.

The visitors were next to threaten but Angus Gunn made himself big and produced a good save to deny Jay Stansfield.

The goal finally came when Sara got on the end of Giannoulis' cross to nod beyond Ruddy 10 minutes into the second half.

It was very much in keeping with the run of play, so there was no surprise when Rowe doubled the lead just moments later.

Hwang laid the ball off to the winger who came forward and drilled a low effort into the bottom corner.

Norwich continued to push bodies forward in search of more and chances fell to Hwang and Idah but both failed to find the net.

Koji Miyoshi hit the crossbar for Birmingham too before Juninho Bacuna fired over.

Danny Batth was introduced for his Norwich City debut while Borja Sainz made his home debut for the club as a late substitute.

Norwich City: Gunn; Stacey, Duffy, Gibson, Giannoulis; Sara (Batth 90+1), McLean (C); Fassnacht (Hernández 57), Rowe (Sainz 90+1), Płacheta (Hwang 57); Idah (Forshaw 67).

Unused subs: Long, Gibbs, McCallum, Fisher.

Goals: Sara (55), Rowe (60)

Bookings: Sara (65)

Birmingham City: Ruddy; Drameh, Sanderson (C), Long, Longelo; Burke (Dembele 59), Sunjic (Bacuna 59), Bielik (James 79), Miyoshi (Gardner 79); Hogan (Jutkiewicz 76), Stansfield.

Unused subs: Etheridge, Roberts, Khela, Aiwu.

Bookings: Long (83)

HT: 0-0

FT: 2-0

Referee: Gavin Ward

Venue: Carrow Road

Attendance: 26,231