Norwich City suffered another dip in form after on-loan striker Hwang Ui-jo was ruled out with a hamstring injury.
The South Korean was sent off during Norwich’s 3-2 defeat to Watford just minutes after giving City a two-goal lead – but in the end they were forced to admit defeat.
Hwang is now expected to miss the rest of 2023 for City, just as he began to find form in yellow and green.“He has a thigh injury,” Wagner confirmed.
“We hope he can be back before the end of the year, but it will be close.” “Of course he will miss the match on Sunday.
He did a scan. I hope it will be before the end of the year, but we will see how he progresses in the next two to three weeks.“He has been in good form in recent weeks. He scored goals and worked very hard.
He increasingly found his place in the game and became quite comfortable. You know how we are; We are trying to deal with the situation of this injury and trying to find solutions.
“There is light at the end of the tunnel in terms of injuries, however, with City welcoming injured trio Angus Gunn, Adam Forshaw and Jonathan Rowe to their side for Sunday’s trip to Bristol City.
“Forshy (Adam Forshaw), Gunny (Angus Gunn) and Jonny Rowe are all back in training,” he said. “We had them in training again today and hopefully tomorrow. Then we will have to decide how to start on Sunday.
Jonathan Rowe returns to the Norwich City squad this weekend.
“If they train without problems tomorrow, all three can be ready for Sunday.
Jonny has been out for two and a half weeks and has trained little on grass.“They’ve worked hard in the gym, but it’s always something different being on the grass with the team or working with the fitness guys on the pitch.”
Good news for Josh Sargent too: the striker was ahead of his time and would be back on the field at the end of the month.“Josh is back on the grass this week,” he said.
He will return to first team training in the coming weeks, ahead of Huddersfield. Two or three weeks earlier than expected. In the same period, Lungi and Gibson also return.”
