Swansea City vs Norwich City; Sky Bet Championship
Full Time
After Extra Time
This is a live match.
Extra Time
Half Time
Swansea City vs Norwich City. Sky Bet Championship.
Swansea.com Stadium.
Watch match highlights
Swansea City 2-1 Norwich City: Moussa Yeo, Adam Idah score as Swans extend lead at Championship summit
Report and free match highlights from the Sky Bet Championship match between Swansea City and Norwich City at the Swansea.com Stadium on Saturday; Moussa Kounfolo Yeo and Adam Idah cancel out Jacob Wright's opener to extend the Swans' lead at the top of the table
Saturday 10 October 2026 16:44, UK
Adam Idah made up for three near misses in the first half to head Championship leaders Swansea to a 2-1 home win over Norwich.
The Republic of Ireland striker came back to haunt his first club with a glancing header in the 59th minute to complete his side's comeback after falling behind to Jacob Wright's goal in the first half.
Swansea emerged from the international break with an injury to Canadian Stephen Eustaquio. He joined Josh Key on the injury list, while the Canaries were without top scorer Mohamed Toure.
- Watch FREE Championship highlights | Latest EFL news and rumours
- Not got Sky? Latest Sky Sports deals or stream EFL games with no contract📺
West Ham's draw the night before left the Swans sitting pretty at the top of the table as they sought to extend their unbeaten home run in the Championship to five. They looked a little rusty and Norwich harassed and hounded them on the ball to knock them out of shape.
It took 15 minutes before Moussa Yeo unleashed the first shot of the game from just outside the Norwich box but Vladan Kovacevic saved comfortably. Moments later Mathias Kvistgaarden had a chance at the other end after Pelle Mattsson put him in a good position to shoot.
Joseph Opoku gave top scorer Idah a great chance to add to his three goals already this season in the 22nd minute after winning the ball on halfway and driving to the Norwich box. Idah took a heavy touch from what looked to be a scoring pass and Kovacevic saved.
Norwich were quick on the counter-attack and a great cross from the left forced Stephen Welsh to head over from under the Swansea bar to concede a corner.
The corner was cleared but Andre Brooks and Oscar Schwartau combined to rob Welsh of the ball and Schwartau passed across the box to enable Wright to score in the 28th minute.
Idah had two more chances to level matters before the break, but again Kovacevic was up to the mark to deny him.
It took the league leaders a mere four minutes after the restart to get back on level terms when Yeo made it three goals in as many games. Some neat interplay on the left touchline eventually freed Josh Tymon and his cross was missed at the near post by Idah before being converted at the back post by Yeo.
Swansea looked a different side in the second half and Goncalo Franco set up Idah for a shot that Kovacevic saved, then Ruairi McConville cleared off the line as Opoku fired the rebound goalwards.
The second goal came just before the hour as Idah headed home from an inch-perfect cross from Melker Widell. Moments later Idah limped off to be replaced by Zan Vipotnik.
Norwich had two good chances in the dying minutes but Lawrence Vigouroux saved Sam Field's shot and then saw Jovon Makama head over the bar from five yards out.
The managers
Swansea's Vitor Matos:
"We started well but lacked a little bit of precision in the first half in some situations. It was something that we could easily improve.
"Then we suffered, bounced back quite well and improved a lot in the second half in terms of rhythm and intensity. I'm really happy with the boys and it was really important for us to win more than anything.
"Players had been flying around because of the international break, joining on the last days of training as well before the game. It's not the easiest way to prepare, not only for us but of course for a lot of teams in the league.
"It's always important to get results after an international break, and this was quite a long one. I wasn't concerned about us losing momentum, I was more concerned in terms of the quality of our game.
"The players have come back to play three games in eight days, so there's not a lot of time to train. It's all about trying to reconnect everyone."
Norwich's Philippe Clement:
"It was frustrating not to get at least a point out of the game. I thought the first half we were in control and one team wasn't better than the other.
"We scored a really good goal from a collective attack and that was a good way to go into half-time. You could feel that their fans were getting nervous at the end of the first half because they were not creating many chances, which they normally do.
"In some moments we should have won more duels and maybe some players came out thinking too much about the result and freezing a bit. We didn't have the same intensity as in the first half.
"That's why I made changes after we went 2-1 down. In the last half-hour we stepped up again and we had two really good chances to make it 2-2.
"We were much better organised than in the Bolton game last time out and we need to keep building from here. If we keep on pushing, keep on growing in confidence, then the results will come."
