After his side's failure to score on Saturday against Hull, Paul Lambert started with Simeon Jackson in place of Chris Martin, who dropped to the bench. But the rest of the side that lost at home to Hull, were given the chance to redeem themselves against the Foxes. What followed at Carrow Road was a truly amazing evening of football.
Norwich kicked off attacking The Barclay end goal, but inside two minutes John Ruddy was kicking himself and a post in frustration, because the lively Martyn Waghorn had beaten him at his near post from an acute angle, after rounding left back, Adam Drury and firing in a low left foot shot from some 15 yards.
It took the home side some time to recover from this early setback, but in the 31st minute Wes Hoolahan's cross from the left was headed on to Grant Holt who cut the ball back for Andrew Crofts to plant a low right foot shot past Carl Ikeme from 9 yards.
HALF-TIME: City 1 Foxes 1
Eight minutes into the second half Norwich took the lead. Tom Kennedy blocked a right wing cross from Russell Martin with his arm and referee, Peter Walton had no hesitation in awarding a penalty. Hoolahan stepped up to put an unstoppable left foot shot well to the left of the keeper.
Within seconds Hoolahan's right wing cross was headed just the wrong side of the far post by Holt. It looked as if the Canaries were about to go on a goal spree and when Hoolahan played in Drury to score his first goal since the dramatic equaliser against Middlesbrough in 2005, the Foxes should have been down and out.
However, within two minutes of Drury's goal. Substitute Matty Fryatt pulled a goal back. From a quickly taken short corner his first shot was blocked on the line by Elliott Ward, but when the ball came back to him he made no mistake at the second attempt, blasting his shot high into the net.
The undisputed man-of-the-match then produced the best goal of the match. Mr Walton played a good advantage for Norwich on the half-way line and when Crofts threaded the ball to Hoolahan, the Irishman hit a left foot shot from at least 20 yards which nestled in the top corner of the net, beating Ikeme's despairing dive to his right.
From the Norwich perspective that should have killed off the visitors, but as Paul Lambert prepared to strengthen his defence by sending on Steven Smith in place of Hoolahan, Fryatt struck again. This time he out-paced the Norwich rearguard and slid the ball under Ruddy as the luckless keeper spread himself in a desperate attempt to block the shot.
Had Fryatt seen out the rest of the game, he might have notched a hat-trick, but as he tangled with Leon Barnett who was retrieving the ball from the net, he showed to much aggression and was sent off.
Paul Lambert was then able to make the substitution and his side held on against the ten men of Leicester to become worthy winners of a match in which they had enjoyed three fifths of the possession without managing to maintain the two-goal advantage that would have made the game easier to watch for every Canary fan; not to mention the management team of Paul Lambert and Ian Culverhouse, both of whom seemed close to tearing their hair out every time the Foxes counter attacked.
FULL-TIME: City 4 Foxes 3