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Subs not used: Crichton, McGovern
The Canaries started the game positively and dominated the early stages, having a fantastic double-chance in the seventh minute when Zema Abbey's header was cleared off the line by Derek Geary and Gary Holt's follow-up was kept out by Kevin Pressman.
At the other end Wednesday's only notable chance came when it looked for a second like they'd scored, but former Canary Efan Ekoku's shot had hit the side netting.
After a few more chances the Canaries took a deserved lead in the 36th minute, McVeigh's clever lobbed cross picking out Roberts at the back post for the Welsh international to net his first goal of the season with a classic Iwan header.
Wednesday tried to turn it around with a few subs at half-time but to no avail.
We were denied a clear penalty in the 55th minute when Wednesday defender Danny Maddix clearly handled the ball in his area. How the referee failed to spot it is beyond belief, Danny's hand was stuck right up in the air and the ball clearly hit it! However, later Wednesday were denied an equally clear penalty, and we won the match anyway, so let's not be too disgruntled!
Substitute Pablo Bonvin raised Wednesday spirits briefly when a 69th minute free kick from the edge of the area struck the top of the cross-bar, lucky for us it was off-target as Green didn't even have time to react to it.
But City didn't have long to wait before Paul McVeigh capped a man-of-the-match winning performance with a classy goal in the 73rd minute, latching on to a fine throughball from Steen Nedergaard before firing a perfectly-judged low shot past Pressman into the bottom right-hand corner of the net.
Marc Libbra came on a minute later for Zema Abbey and nearly repeated his supersub heroics of his two previous league games, just failing to convert after a neat nod down from Roberts.
Wednesday attempted to stage a late rally, but despite the drumming and loud vocal support from their fans they failed to break down a well-organised City defence, who recorded their third consecutive league clean sheet (when's the last time we could say that??)
My Man Of the Match: Paul McVeigh; who can disagree? he set up the first goal and scored the other!
The whole team played very well though, particularly Gary "Energiser Bunny" Holt (where does that man get all his energy from??!) and the ever dependable Fleming and Mackay in the centre of defence.
