Tilson: 'Could easily scored three or four at the weekend'
After the Blues lost to Norwich at Roots Hall last December boss Steve Tilson predicted automatic promotion for the Canaries even though Leeds and Charlton were clear at the time.
Sadly for Tilly and his teams chances this evening he's been proved right!
Tilly spoke to www.southendunited.co.uk: "They are a very good team and the best I think we have played this season, so this game is as tough as it gets for us. But it's a good ground with a good pitch and I'm sure there will be more than 20,000 fans there, so it's a match you look forward to being involved in and hopefully it can spur us on even more."
He knows that there will be few chances for the side to-night and if one comes up, it has to be taken, unlike at the stadium:mk last Saturday.
Tilly continued: "We created so many chances (at MK Dons), and could easily scored three or four at the weekend."
However, it looks as if he will have to do without Arsenal loanee winger Sanchez Watt.
The Southend manager explained: "Sanchez actually picked up a head problem during the game with Tranmere a couple of weeks ago and he's been feeling it ever since. He certainly hasn't been at 100 per cent for us and he's struggling at the moment, so is definitely a doubt for this game." 
Lambert: 'What we've done here is remarkable'
Meanwhile, Canaries boss Paul Lambert knows his team have to get the weekend defeat to Southampton and Barney's brace as soon as possible, starting with the Shrimpers!
Lambert told www.canaries.co.uk: "They need the points and it's up to us to kep them down. You feel for nobody in football, you've got to look after your own backyard. We'll come out flying."
Er, thanks Paul.
Lambert went on about why he expects his team to bounce back this evening.
He continued: "The games are on you before you know it, you don't get time to dwell on it. I never dwell on a win let alone anything else. It's different if your on a losing streak like 19 games in a row. but if we were I wouldn't be sitting here anyway! The lads have done brilliantly, if I wanted to analyse it and look back at what we've done it has been remarkable."
A final word on the visit of the Shrimpers and the atmosphere generated at Carrow Road.
The ex-head Farmer concluded: "The crowd will come and it will be jam-packed again and they'll get right behind us. and sitting top of the league in my experience in football is a great place to be. I think every game is huge. I never proritise what's big or not because I think this club generates it whether you're palying Southend or Southampton - every game is huge. The intensity has to be the same."