{"id":339611,"date":"2025-12-28T17:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339611\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T17:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:34:08","slug":"norwich-city-v-watford-philippe-clement-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/339611\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich City v Watford: Philippe Clement press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n City will look to ring out 2025 in style at Carrow Road on Monday when they face the play-off chasing Hornets.\n<\/p>\n

\n Josh Sargent is available for selection after he missed Norwich’s last three games following his concussion exit against Sheffield United earlier in the month – but in-form understudy Jovon Makama is a fresh doubt with a knock.\n<\/p>\n

\n Clement revealed after the Boxing Day win over Charlton Sargent only had two days team training, after a sustained period of solo work linked to the concussion protocols he had to observe.\n<\/p>\n

\n The Belgian also indicated after Friday’s festive win there remained some concerns around heading the ball, but the City chief delivered a positive bulletin on Sunday afternoon around a striker who scored in the recent 3-2 league defeat at Vicarage Road.\n<\/p>\n

\n Lucien Mahovo made his first appearance under Clement in the second half of the Boxing Day victory, after recovering from long-running quad issues.\n<\/p>\n

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\n Liam Gibbs (hamstring) is available after not featuring since October 25.\n<\/p>\n

\n Clement confirmed the plan is for Papa Amadou Diallo to be back with the group from January, after a long term quad injury.\n<\/p>\n

\n Shane Duffy (hamstring), Jeffrey Schlupp (hamstring) and Gabe Forsyth (knee) are longer term absentees – although Clement confirmed at Colney Duffy does not require surgery after his muscular injury on development duty recently.\n<\/p>\n

\n Recap the key lines from our blog and watch a full video of Clement’s pre-Watford press call.\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City will look to ring out 2025 in style at Carrow Road on Monday when they face the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-339611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}