Three predicted Norwich changes with key man out as Ryan Mason hints at tweaks amid lengthy back to back away days

Ryan Mason is facing a battle to juggle around his West Brom squad - as they face two gruelling away trips within the space of four days.

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On Wednesday, Albion head to Norwich City before they head to the capital to face Millwall on Saturday.

The fixture scheduling has not been kind to Albion this week - as they go into the games on back of a tough test against Leicester last Friday.

With two games in quick succession, Mason has hinted that he will need to utilise his squad to get through the fixtures which come before the second international break of the campaign.

With that in mind, Jonny Drury gives his predicted XI and his view on where Mason could make changes.

'He is key - but will he feature twice in two days?'

There are three players we know are out - but aside from that everyone is in contention heading into these two games.

So it is a little difficult to predict where changes may come from.

I have gone for three - and the first is Callum Styles coming back in at left back in place of Charlie Taylor. This is not solely down to Taylor's debut - which wasn't the best.

But he hasn't played an awful lot of football in recent months - and with that in mind two games in four days may be a bit much.

Styles has featured 14 times for West Brom in the Championship this term. (Photo by George Wood/Getty Images)placeholder image
Styles has featured 14 times for West Brom in the Championship this term. (Photo by George Wood/Getty Images)

Elsewhere, there have been calls for Toby Collyer to come in and I think one of these games will be the one. I've included him for Wednesday evening and I've put in him for Alex Mowatt, which may come as a surprise.

Mowatt was the star man for Albion last week - but for me two games in a week may be a bit of a stretch for the midfielder. Out of the eight games in all competitions this season - he has been taken off in six of them.

That may show that he needs to be managed - and with Collyer waiting in the wings, Wednesday may be a good time to throw him in.

And elsewhere, I could see Jed Wallace coming back in for Samuel Iling-Junior. It isn't a change many will want to see after last week's goal from the loanee - but he and Mason both referenced building up his fitness after the game.

So he sits out from the start and will then come off the bench with a view to starting at Millwall.

Predicted XI (4-2-3-1) - Griffiths, Campbell, Mepham, Phillips, Styles, Molumby, Collyer, Wallace, Price, Johnston, Heggebo

Subs: Wildsmith, Taylor, Diakite, Bielik, Mowatt, Gilchrist, Maja, Iling-Junior, Bostock

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