David Wagner is tipping Nottingham Forest loan striker Hwang Ui-Jo to have a big say on Norwich City’s upcoming Championship games.

The South Korean international made his debut as a second half substitute in the 1-0 league win over Stoke.

The Reds’ East Midlands rivals, Leicester City, head to Carrow Road on Wednesday to start a hectic run of five games in a fortnight before the next international break.

Hwang was targeted to soften the injury blow of losing forward Josh Sargent until the new year, and the experienced frontman has made a good impression on his new boss.

“Everything I've seen from him in training showed me he has a lot of skills which attracted us,” said Wagner. “We're happy to have him because we know that there are a lot of games just around the corner now in these next 21 days or so. We will need everyone who started (on Saturday) and who was on the bench, even the guys not involved.

“It's never easy as a striker to come into a game like that but he really tried to close them down and close the gaps as well.

"Obviously he had his moments offensively and even though we needed to manage that situation better as a team and take the ball into the corner to run down the clock perhaps it shows how desperate he is to score.

"He didn’t play a lot of football for his club in the past. Luckily he got minutes for South Korea before he joined us.”

Wagner is relishing the challenge of a congested league and cup calendar over the coming two to three weeks.

“If you have a schedule like this I love it. You have to be totally honest, why we do what we do is because of the games,” he said. “I don't make the schedule, I can't influence it so I look on it and think, ‘Okay, great,' and then we really try to push everyone to his limit, or maybe beyond, and this is what we do now as well. It's a busy period.

“Luckily, we don’t have too many injury concerns at the minute. And this means we can, and we will, use everyone available. We will have changes in the squad, we will have changes in the starting line up.

"There will be players not in one squad who maybe start the next game, players who score in one game who don’t start the next game. It's important that we are all together, and when called upon you give this energy. We are now in a period when everyone will get used.”