Daniel Farke previewed Norwich City’s Championship game against Reading - and we had all the key lines first from a video chat with the boss at Colney.

The Canaries will be crowned champions with a win at Carrow Road, or if second-placed Watford drop points at play-off contenders Brentford.

City bounced back from recent defeats to both the Hornets and Bournemouth with a convincing 3-1 away win at QPR. They have also celebrated a number of awards in recent days with Emi Buendia named player-of-the-year both by Norwich fans and the Football League's top performer in the Championship.

Farke himself was named Championship manager-of-the-season at the virtual Football League awards on Thursday, with four members of his squad included in the team-of-the-season.

The Canaries' boss confirmed he had no fresh fitness issues from those who featured in west London last weekend. Dimitris Giannoulis serves the final game of a three-game ban for his Bournemouth red card.

Christoph Zimmermann has had a minor setback Farke labelled a 'muscular' issue in his rehab from a hamstring injury. The original plan was him to re-join some part of team training next week but the centre back is now likely to target a return for pre-season.

Sam Byram (hamstring) and Ben Gibson (ankle) are longer term absentees. Midfielder Lukas Rupp (hamstring) is another out for the season after suffering a recurrence of a previous hamstring problem.

Rupp does not require surgery for a tendon issue but is expected to be out for three to four weeks.

Moritz Leitner is not part of the plans.

Farke spoke to the media remotely from Colney.

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