Iwan Roberts on Norwich City at Leeds in play-off semi

You’d love to have some sort of a lead going up there, but I don't think either side was brave enough on Sunday.

I think both sides were scared of making a mistake, to concede that first goal, to give the other side an advantage. There was a massive air of caution.

I won't be surprised if it's very, very cagey at Elland Road. You just get the feeling that the first goal will have a massive impact on the whole outcome. If Norwich could somehow get that early goal, that atmosphere will turn so quickly.

City are obviously underdogs – they finished sixth, they drew the first leg at home 0-0 and Leeds’ home record is outstanding; they won 16 of their 23 games with 10 clean sheets. But they haven't won in their last three at home – they drew 0-0 with Sunderland, lost to Blackburn 1-0 and lost 2-1 to Southampton, so it's maybe not the fortress that it has been for 90pc of the season.

Obviously there is an element of doubt there for them. Had they drawn two and won one of those three games and not lost at home all season, you'd put your mortgage on Leeds to go through. But when the pressure was on, when they needed their home form most of all, the pressure got to them.

For Norwich, the first target is if you can score an early goal away, brilliant, a bonus really. For an away team, if you can avoid conceding in the first 20 minutes, you can just quieten everything down. It was like when we went to Molineux back in 2002. That was so loud. I knew what was coming because I had played for Wolves in the play-offs in 96-97, so I knew the place would be absolutely banging. They had a couple of chances – I remember Robert Green making a great save off Nathan Blake early doors, didn't score so. We got to that first 20 minutes and we thought, ‘we’ve done alright here, we can build on this’.

I still think David Wagner is going to be really cautious and I totally understand that. If you think you can go there and win it in the first 15, 20 minutes by playing low risk football, you won’t be playing at Wembley.

A quick look at one or two individuals:

Illan Meslier (Image: PA Images)

Illan Meslier: The Leeds keeper – 100pc he can be exploited. He looks a nervous wreck with the ball at his feet, he tends to hold on to the ball a little bit too much. He tends to have two, three touches too many. If I’m a centre forward I'm disinterested... and then when he starts having these touches, I'm going in, I'm closing him down. You get to know defenders and you will know the ones that will always give you a chance, you'll always get that one opportunity in the game. You might get more than one – you just have to make sure you're ready when that chance comes and you take full advantage.

Gabriel Sara (Image: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd)

Gabriel Sara: I thought Marcelino Nunez played really well. But could Sara have grabbed hold of the game by the scruff of the neck a little bit more? In big games you want your big players to show up. He's been unbelievable this season but he didn't reach the standard that Gabriel Sara has set himself this season. He was on the periphery of things, never really set the game alight. You can't do it every week, I totally get that. Maybe at Elland Road, he'll show why he's valued at £35m-plus. I would liked to have seen a bit more from him. A bit more from Borja Sainz, going forward: he works his socks off, to be fair, and he's going to have to do that again if they play Dimi Giannoulis again, because their wingers can exploit the full-backs. I think Jack Stacey and Giannoulis do well when they go forward – they just worry the life out of me when they're asked to defend.

INJURY WORRIES

City go into tonight’s huge game with a doubt over Josh Sargent.

Josh Sargent - injury doubt (Image: Andy Sumner/Focus Images Ltd)

You are obviously governed by the way his ankle feels - it all depends on what’s he done, because obviously it's the ankle that has been causing him problems since early in the season. He's missed a big chunk of the season, he has had it operated on, but we don’t know what has happened this time, whether he's just tweaked it or not.

It’s not like if you've got tightness in the muscle, then you can get away with it. But if you've got swelling down there and you haven't got time to get the swelling down you have to be very gentle. I've done it many times - my left ankle is made the glass. I had to have it strapped up before every training session and every game and I bet his ankle is exactly the same.

I think it’s going to be judged on how Sargent says his ankle is, but it could take an injection to see if he could start the game. What’s his pain threshold like? I don’t know.

What he's got to think is that this is probably the most important game up to now of his Norwich City career and the team needs him, and sometimes you have to go through the pain barrier, you have to run through that brick wall for your team-mates and for the club.

If he isn’t quite 100pc you have to risk him, because there's no tomorrow. People will say it would mean he’d miss the final - well, let's get to the final first. You can't even think about the final, you've got to get through this game. If he's 90pc, 95pc fit and if he wants to play, and if he's maybe willing to have a little pain killing injection which could do the trick – he’s got to play, and through the pain barrier if necessary.

He's not stupid. He knows the importance of this game. He knows his important he is to this team. He knows that they haven't got anybody to replace him. Simple as that.