Lays of the Weekend: Don't be fooled by Norwich win

Norwich have deteriorated a lot in the two months since they last topped the Championship

Michael Lintorn doesn't expect Norwich to deliver successive wins, and is also laying Scunthorpe and Shrewsbury...

Lay Norwich to beat Huddersfield @ 1.758/11

A 1-0 victory away to second-bottom crisis club Wigan isn't enough evidence from which to draw the conclusion that Norwich are ready to revive their Championship promotion challenge, particularly as they won just one in ten prior to that and have triumphed once in eight attempts at Carrow Road.

Huddersfield aren't great travellers, suffering a couple of road reverses recently, but the Terriers are making encouraging progress under Chris Powell, with a run of three defeats in 12 helping lift them out of the relegation zone and put six points of distance between themselves and the bottom three.

Lay Scunthorpe to beat Crewe @ 1.981/1

This is a clash between two League One drop-zone dwellers, albeit a pair in healthier positions than they were 11 games in, by which stage they had collected a mere seven and four points respectively.

As you can imagine, both have made significant progress to get to 19 and 16 points two months on, though much of Scunthorpe's has been achieved on away days, whereas they have taken one of the 12 points available to them in their previous four fixtures at Glanford Park.

Crewe by contrast are now capable of giving almost anyone a competitive contest and anywhere too, losing two of their latest seven outings compared to nine in 11 beforehand.

Lay Shrewsbury to win at Cambridge @ 2.1411/10

Shrewsbury have made it immediately obvious that they are one of the best teams in League Two following their relegation from the third tier, assuming an automatic-promotion position two points off the very top as well as eliminating three sides from higher divisions in the Capital One Cup.

However, almost all of their magic is performed in Shropshire. Their league home stats this season read P10 W9 D1 L0 compared to away figures of P9 W2 D2 L5. They have lost five of their most recent seven on their league travels, failing to triumph against anyone higher than 20th. Cambridge are tenth.