Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Norwich City & Birmingham City face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Carabao Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Norwich City form and stats
Norwich City participated in Carabao Cup the last season, where they reached the 3rd round.The overall Championship results at home this season for Norwich City are 0-1-0 (wins-draws-losses).
The spoils were shared in Norwich City's previous game, also at home. Visiting Wigan Athletic travelled back with a draw after a 1-1 scoreline. Aarons was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.63 out of 10. The defender Aarons scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 5 of 8 duels.
A Championship defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at Cardiff City.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Norwich City matches with similar probabilities have ended with 4 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats (from 6 games).
There will be little rest for Norwich after this match as they are travelling to Hull City for a Championship game in only four days.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Norwich City at home in the league. 1 on target and 1 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Birmingham City form and stats
Last season their Carabao Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round.As the visiting team in Championship matches, Birmingham City have produced an overall stat of 0-1-0 so far.
Birmingham City had fun at their own home (Carrow Road) last time out, beating Huddersfield Town 2-1. Płacheta and Hogan scored. Midfield player Płacheta was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.0/10. Płacheta scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Luton Town.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Championship trip to Cardiff City.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Birmingham City has managed 0 goals and let in 0 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
Norwich City have avoided a loss in the last 7 matches (6-1-0) versus Birmingham City.Top Goalscorers
  M. Aarons 1 goals |   S. Hogan 1 goals |  P. Płacheta 1 goals |
Norwich City missing players
Birmingham City missing players
| Norwich City | Birmingham City | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 8 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 6 | 10 | ||
| 16 | 6 | Lost | L | 5 | 10 | ||
| 25 | 5 | Scored | S | 13 | 29 | ||
| 48 | 23 | Conceded | C | 22 | 41 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 85% | 88% | ||
| 88% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 80% | ||
| 60% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 60% | ||
| 40% | 62% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 32% | ||
| 8% | 12% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 40% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 69% | 64% | ||
| 20% | 12% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 20% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 28% | ||
| 4.9 | 5.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.4 | 4.9 | ||
| 6.1 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.9 | 5.2 | ||
| 1 | 0.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.7 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 10.1 | 11.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.6 | 11.3 | ||
| 3 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4 | ||
| 28% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 29% | ||
| 15.5 | 14.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.5 | 10.6 | ||
| 5.8 | 6.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Blackburn Rovers | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Sunderland | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Birmingham City | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Burnley | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Hull City | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Watford | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Sheffield United | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Queens Park Rangers | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Cardiff City | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | Millwall | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | Reading | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Stoke City | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 | Blackpool | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| 14 | West Bromwich Albion | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | Luton Town | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Wigan Athletic | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 17 | Preston North End | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 18 | Coventry City | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Rotherham United | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 20 | Middlesbrough | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 1 |
| 21 | Norwich City | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 22 | Swansea City | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -3 | 1 |
| 23 | Bristol City | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 24 | Huddersfield Town | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
- Norwich City
- Norwich Evening News - (local newspaper)
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- Birmingham Mail - (local newspaper)
