Norwich have turned late goals into such an art form this season that you sit at Carrow Road expecting them.
This time it was a perfectly-placed free-kick by Mario Vrancic in the seventh minute of stoppage time that took them another crucial step closer to the Premier League.
It looked ominous for Sheffield Wednesday when Vrancic was brought down by a clumsy challenge by Marco Matias with the match already well over the five minutes indicated.
Mario Vrancic nailed a stoppage-time free-kick on Friday to maintain Norwich's unbeaten run
Substitute Vrancic struck in the 96th minute to earn a 2-2 draw against Sheffield Wednesday
Norwich City (4-2-3-1): Krul; Aarons, Zimmermann (c), Godfrey, Lewis (Srbeny 84); Trybull (Vrancic 80), Leitner; McLean, Stiepermann, Hernandez (Klose 90+3); Pukki
Substitutes not used: Oxborough (GK); Tettey, Hanley, Cantwell
Manager: Daniel Farke
Scorers: Stiepermann 20; Vrancic 90+7
Booked: Krul
Sheffield Wednesday (4-4-2): Dawson; Iorfa, Lees (c), Hector, Palmer; Matias, Hutchinson (Pelupessy 33), Onomah (Bannan 67), Boyd; Forestieri (Joao 75), Fletcher
Substitutes not used: Fox, Winnall, Nuhiu
Manager: Steve Bruce
Scorers: Forestieri 33; Fletcher 54
Booked: Dawson, Boyd
Referee: Geoff Eltringham (County Durham)
Attendance: 26,744
Vrancic stepped up and curled an immaculate set-piece high over the wall and into the top right-hand corner. There was a glorious inevitability about the whole scene.
The old place shook with joy, the Norwich fans to a man, woman and child knowing how significant the moment was.
Five points clear of Leeds United in third, Norwich can seal promotion at Stoke City on Monday but, boy, did they make hard work of this one.
Wednesday might have enjoyed plenty of fortune - keeper Cameron Dawson could have been sent off early on and Steven Fletcher's winner was bundled in with his hand - but the onus was on Norwich to break the visitors down.
They did when Marco Stiepermann opened the scoring but once Fernando Forestieri levelled with a thunderbolt straight from the season's highlights reel, they again lacked a cutting edge.
The truth is they have missed their Argentine wizard Emiliano Buendia, suspended for the last three games. These have seen draws with Reading and Wigan, plus this defeat. It's no coincidence.
Buendia, available again, can now help them over the line in the Potteries.
Norwich went ahead on 19 minutes through Marco Stiepermann's ninth goal this season
Stiepermann celebrated with team-mate Onel Hernandez, pictured wearing the No 25 shirt
Despite Sheffield United's win over Nottingham Forest at lunchtime forcing the postponement of the promotion party, Carrow Road was a boisterous sea of yellow and green on an evening balmy enough for t-shirts.
Norwich haven't found getting over the finish line in the Championship marathon as easy as they'd have liked but there was no questioning their early intent here.
First it was leading scorer Teemu Pukki showing fancy footwork inside the Wednesday box before shooting over, then an exceedingly lucky escape for the visitors' stand-in keeper Dawson.
No 1 Keiran Westwood had suffered an ankle injury during the warm-up and Dawson was drafted in at short notice.
