Iwan Roberts on Norwich v Ipswich derby at Carrow Road

You might think that long gap won’t make any difference, but they will know in that dressing room. They will know they haven’t won here in 15 years – and that was when Danny Haynes scored late on with his hand - so even in 2006, they cheated their way to victory!

Does their poor record here affect the result? It probably doesn't… but they will know.

And if you’re a Norwich player, you don't want to be part of the team that loses this game.

It is a game that players are desperate not to lose – but sometimes a bit of anxiety on the day is not a bad thing.

I would love to play in this one!

The biggest pressure is on Ipswich. I think when you're chasing, it's always a better feeling than when you're being chased. They have got themselves top of the table and they are the team to beat now.

Kieran McKenna - a breath of fresh air (Image: PA)

They've been unbelievable all season, they've not shown they're under any pressure whatsoever - I do think that comes from the manager, Kieran McKenna. I think he's been a breath of fresh air.

They’ve done it so many times this season – if they go into the last five, six, seven minutes and they are drawing the game, he'd rather lose the game going for it.

At Bristol City the other week, they came back from 2-1, they missed a penalty, but they won 3-2. He keeps going. He’s not ‘oh, we'll take a point - if we can't win it we make sure we don't lose it’ – and I think he takes all the pressure off his players.

Coming up to the last six games you can smell the Premier League and everything that brings with it. That puts pressure on.

It's not the start of the race that's important, it’s the finish, and it's the hardest thing, especially when you get in a three-horse race. It was different when we won it in 2004. We knew February time that we were going to finish in the top two.

They've been in a three-horse race all season against two top, top teams, so they will be feeling the pressure, 100pc. The manager might say ‘no, we're not’, but when you're within touching distance of Premier League football for the first time since god knows, that brings pressure.

There isn’t as much pressure on Norwich - it was a bad day at Leicester on Monday. I watched the game and I was just disappointed with the way David Wagner went into the game and set the team up. I just thought they were far too negative.

Scored a great set piece - I love seeing a little bit of imagination on set pieces, not just putting it in and looking for the two big centre halves. It was a really well worked, well thought out corner routine that worked an absolute treat.

And had they been a bit more positive and not gone ‘we've got a goal, we're going to defend now’, they gave Leicester the impetus and gave them the little bit of momentum. Had they been able to hold on until half-time the atmosphere in the King Power would have been quite a bit different with the run that they're in.

It's not disgrace losing to Leicester, you probably didn't really expect them to go up there and win. It's just the manner of the performance. They never really gave it a go, but I think that goes out of the window now.

They got away with Monday because Coventry lost, Hull lost, Preston lost and didn’t close ground.

I don't think Norwich will feel the pressure as much as Ipswich - I'm not just saying that because I’m a former Norwich player. I just look at the two teams and their league position. Of course there's pressure on Norwich because they want to finish in that sixth place. But I still think they could leapfrog over West Brom.

But I think going into this game, I think the pressure is all on Ipswich - they'll hate me saying that as well.

I think considering it's a regular season league game, I think it's as big as the 2015 play-off semi-final games.

They are always big games, but 2015 took it to another level because of the prize at stake. It's not like a semi-final of a cup - you're trying to get to a play-off final to get to the Premier League, which then means £100m in prize money and that was massive.

But I do think because of the situation of both teams, because of the run of form of both teams, especially Norwich at home, I think this is the biggest league encounter between the two that I can remember.

Goal-fest?

Leif Davis (Image: PA)

Ipswich may be missing Kieffer Moore this weekend, a player who almost came to Norwich last summer, but Bournemouth couldn’t make it work at their end.

It sounds like he has a muscle injury so I'd be surprised if he's fit to play.

Whether he plays or not, Norwich have got to stop the source, stop the crosses coming in, especially from Leif Davis. You've got to get pressure on it, you've got to get in Davis's face. You can't give him the amount of time and space that he's had on numerous occasions. I think he has the most assists in the Championship, so you've got to get pressure on the players in wide areas.

They've got George Hirst, who's not quite as big, but similar sort of height, but nowhere near as potent in front of goal. But they've just got goals from everywhere.

Omari Hutchinson has been in and out, coming off the bench and scoring a lot of late goals. Nathan Broadhead has had a magnificent season. He came on the other night and scored in the 3-2 win over Southampton. Conor Chaplin is joint top scorer with Broadhead on 13 – again, they have goals from anywhere.

As I've said before, they do remind me of Paul Lambert’s Norwich team. They’d just keep on going and going and going and they’d nick a goal in the last minute and they’d win the game.

The beauty of this game is you're looking at the team that's third best in home form, in Norwich, and people have said about Ipswich that they are great at Portman Road, they score for fun at home, away form is not brilliant, but they have the second best away form behind Leicester, so they don't do badly on the road!

They score plenty – they’re top scorers this season with 84 in 40 games. But out of the top five, them and Southampton have got the worst defensive record, and they've conceded as many as QPR in 16th.

Look at the goals Norwich have scored at home lately – seven wins on the bounce, 10 wins in 12.

There is no way that this game is ending up 0-0.