a \u00a310m summer signing<\/a> from Swansea, hit a crisp first-time strike from outside the box which clipped the foot of Canaries defender Jack Stacey and flew into the far bottom corner.<\/p>\nNorwich had chances before the break to level, with Andre Brooks denied by Stoke keeper Viktor Johansson.<\/p>\n
They also applied pressure in the closing stages, but a superb Stoke defence kept them at bay.<\/p>\n
The victory not only lifted Mark Robins’ side off the bottom of the fledgling Championship table, but a gutsy performance also demonstrated their resilience and togetherness in the absence of star man Sorba Thomas.<\/p>\n
The Wales winger, who scored 10 goals in the Championship last season, has moved to Hull City. <\/p>\n
The Potters started sluggishly but on 13 minutes found the source of inspiration that would win them the game.<\/p>\n
A low cross from the left by Eric Bocat was deflected out to Galbraith, who stepped up to the loose ball and found the net via Stacey.<\/p>\n
A sometimes tetchy game was largely dominated by Norwich and twice the outstanding Johansson denied Brooks with his legs.<\/p>\n
But Stoke had chances to settle matters, with George Hirst prevented from scoring by a superb block from Ruairi McConville, and deadline-day signing Luca Bombino seeing a shot tipped over.<\/p>\n
Norwich camped themselves in the Stoke half for the final 15 minutes but could not carve out a clear chance as the home defence dug deep and ended a nine-match winless league run dating back to April.<\/p>\n
Stoke next host Charlton on Saturday (12:30 BST), while Norwich travel to Sheffield United (15:00 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethan Galbraith’s deflected first-half strike secured Stoke’s first Championship victory of the season, as they edged out Norwich.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-611936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}