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Norwich boss Chris Hughton is calm ahead of Saturday's trip to face Aston Villa

Image: Hughton denies Norwich's clash with Villa will be about the managers

Norwich boss Chris Hughton is calm ahead of Saturday's trip to face Paul Lambert's Aston Villa.

Hughton has found it difficult to maintain the free-flowing form of last season but last week's 1-0 home win against Arsenal, their first victory of the current league campaign, has brought renewed confidence and they lie one point ahead of Villa, who in turn are one place above the relegation zone. Hughton said: "Generally, the morale has been very good. Of course there is always a better feeling after a win, and a well-deserved win for us. "Very quickly it is about getting down to doing the business again, learning all we can from the last game and remembering again perhaps what we had not done so well in the previous games. "Arsenal was a stiff test and this will be no different. You can only ask them to do the same things, which is to work hard and be as disciplined as possible to cause a threat at the opposite end. "So much of what happens on a match day itself can be fortune and luck and getting the rub of the green but what comes before that is you have to have a work ethic that gives you a chance. "If you have the quality on top of that then you have a better opportunity to get a result. We need to keep the basics rights and we did in the last game."

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