Delightful dogfight as daring Norwich City duels with determined AFC Bournemouth

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Sat 17.April
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Carrow Road (27244 seats)

Both teams are enjoying a good season so far and games like this could be decisive. Here's the preview for Norwich City - AFC Bournemouth!

Insights:
  • Norwich City have the the best goal difference (+37) in Championship

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Championship. That game was also an away game, at Huddersfield Town. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

Norwich are battling for top spots and have everything to play for. AFC Bournemouth are still fighting for top positions and their benefits.

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Norwich City form and stats

45 points is a decent return from 20 Championship games here at Carrow Road for Norwich City. The data says 13 wins, 6 draws and 1 loss. The Norwich City fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Carrow Road and will expect new points from this game. Norwich City has played 18 games in a row here without a defeat. Norwich haven’t lost a league-game in 13 attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Swansea City, 70 days ago.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Tim Krul not having conceded a league goal in 180 minutes.

A good away victory last time out for Norwich, who won 1-0 against Derby County (placed 20th). Before that, Norwich City had a home game versus Huddersfield Town which ended with a victory 7-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Norwich City handle that role? We have found nine games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are six wins, three draws and zero defeats.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Norwich as they have a new game in only three days, a Championship match thankfully also at home. Watford are visiting.

Norwich have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Carrow Road with 34 goals in 20 league matches. Defensively Norwich have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (10 in 20 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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AFC Bournemouth form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Championship travels is 7 wins, 8 draws and 5 defeats. Impressively, the visitors are on a five-match winning run which they hope continue versus Norwich City. Momentum is building for Bournemouth in their away games, having won their two previous outings.

It's the second away game in a row for Bournemouth, but there's smiles all around after the 2-1 victory versus Huddersfield Town (placed 19th) in the Championship last time out. A home win before that, celebrating 4-1 vs Coventry City.

Bournemouth are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, one draw and two defeats. From a total of four matches.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Bournemouth manager J. Woodgate as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Millwall.

Bournemouth find the net regularly in their away games. 26 goals from 20 away fixtures in the league. Bournemouth are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 19 times in 20 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result AFC Bournemouth - Norwich 1-0 entered in the official records. As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's three Norwich City victories, two draws and three AFC Bournemouth wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

NorwichT. Pukki
T. Pukki
25 goals
AFC BournemouthD. Solanke
D. Solanke
14 goals
AFC BournemouthA. Groeneveld
A. Groeneveld
13 goals

Norwich City missing players

AFC Bournemouth missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Norwich City AFC Bournemouth
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
41 20 4 Played P 6 20 41
27 13 4 Won W 1 7 20
9 6 0 Drew D 3 8 11
5 1 0 Lost L 2 5 10
65 34 5 Scored S 8 26 66
28 10 0 Conceded C 7 19 40
93% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 83% 85% 90%
66% 60% 25% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 70% 68%
39% 35% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 45% 49%
17% 15% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 25% 32%
7% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 17%
46% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 60% 56%
44% 55% 100% Clean Sheets C S 33% 30% 37%
17% 15% 0% Failed to Score F T 17% 25% 17%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.3 1.1 0.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.2 1.4 1.4
3 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
15.5 16.6 15 Shots (avg) S ( 13.7 11.8 11.5
4.8 4.9 5.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.3 3.9 4.2
33% 35% 24% Goal Efficiency G E 31% 34% 38%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Norwich City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Norwich City have the fewest conceded goals (10) at home in Championship
  • Norwich City have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (14) in Championship
  • Norwich City have the most scored goals in the first half (34) in Championship
  • Norwich City have the the best goal difference (+37) in Championship

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Norwich City 41 27 9 5 65 28 20 13 6 1 34 10 21 14 3 4 31 18 37 90
2 Watford 41 24 10 7 59 27 21 17 2 2 41 12 20 7 8 5 18 15 32 82
3 Swansea City 41 22 9 10 50 31 20 11 5 4 23 12 21 11 4 6 27 19 19 75
4 Brentford 40 20 13 7 71 40 19 10 7 2 35 19 21 10 6 5 36 21 31 73
5 AFC Bournemouth 41 20 11 10 66 40 21 13 3 5 40 21 20 7 8 5 26 19 26 71
6 Barnsley 41 21 8 12 54 44 21 11 5 5 27 20 20 10 3 7 27 24 10 71
7 Reading 41 19 9 13 56 45 20 12 1 7 32 22 21 7 8 6 24 23 11 66
8 Cardiff City 41 16 11 14 57 45 21 7 5 9 34 24 20 9 6 5 23 21 12 59
9 Millwall 41 14 16 11 41 40 21 6 10 5 19 19 20 8 6 6 22 21 1 58
10 Middlesbrough 41 16 9 16 48 45 20 10 4 6 26 19 21 6 5 10 22 26 3 57
11 Queens Park Rangers 41 15 11 15 48 50 21 10 4 7 28 23 20 5 7 8 20 27 -2 56
12 Stoke City 41 14 13 14 45 46 20 9 4 7 27 23 21 5 9 7 18 23 -1 55
13 Luton Town 40 15 8 17 35 46 19 7 6 6 23 22 21 8 2 11 12 24 -11 53
14 Bristol City 41 15 5 21 40 55 21 7 3 11 15 24 20 8 2 10 25 31 -15 50
15 Nottingham Forest 41 12 13 16 34 39 20 6 7 7 19 19 21 6 6 9 15 20 -5 49
16 Preston North End 41 14 6 21 41 55 21 5 5 11 16 24 20 9 1 10 25 31 -14 48
17 Blackburn Rovers 41 12 11 18 52 47 20 6 7 7 25 23 21 6 4 11 27 24 5 47
18 Birmingham City 41 11 12 18 31 50 21 6 3 12 17 32 20 5 9 6 14 18 -19 45
19 Huddersfield Town 41 11 11 19 43 62 21 8 6 7 27 21 20 3 5 12 16 41 -19 44
20 Derby County 41 11 10 20 30 46 21 6 6 9 16 21 20 5 4 11 14 25 -16 43
21 Coventry City 40 10 12 18 36 56 20 8 7 5 22 20 20 2 5 13 14 36 -20 42
22 Rotherham United 38 11 6 21 41 52 19 5 3 11 24 30 19 6 3 10 17 22 -11 39
23 Sheffield Wednesday 41 11 8 22 34 54 20 7 6 7 20 16 21 4 2 15 14 38 -20 35
24 Wycombe Wanderers 41 8 9 24 30 64 21 5 5 11 14 27 20 3 4 13 16 37 -34 33

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Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Norwich City 41 27 9 5 65 28 20 13 6 1 34 10 21 14 3 4 31 18 37 90
2 Watford 41 24 10 7 59 27 21 17 2 2 41 12 20 7 8 5 18 15 32 82
3 Swansea City 41 22 9 10 50 31 20 11 5 4 23 12 21 11 4 6 27 19 19 75
4 Brentford 40 20 13 7 71 40 19 10 7 2 35 19 21 10 6 5 36 21 31 73
5 AFC Bournemouth 41 20 11 10 66 40 21 13 3 5 40 21 20 7 8 5 26 19 26 71
6 Barnsley 41 21 8 12 54 44 21 11 5 5 27 20 20 10 3 7 27 24 10 71
7 Reading 41 19 9 13 56 45 20 12 1 7 32 22 21 7 8 6 24 23 11 66
8 Cardiff City 41 16 11 14 57 45 21 7 5 9 34 24 20 9 6 5 23 21 12 59
9 Millwall 41 14 16 11 41 40 21 6 10 5 19 19 20 8 6 6 22 21 1 58
10 Middlesbrough 41 16 9 16 48 45 20 10 4 6 26 19 21 6 5 10 22 26 3 57
11 Queens Park Rangers 41 15 11 15 48 50 21 10 4 7 28 23 20 5 7 8 20 27 -2 56
12 Stoke City 41 14 13 14 45 46 20 9 4 7 27 23 21 5 9 7 18 23 -1 55
13 Luton Town 40 15 8 17 35 46 19 7 6 6 23 22 21 8 2 11 12 24 -11 53
14 Bristol City 41 15 5 21 40 55 21 7 3 11 15 24 20 8 2 10 25 31 -15 50
15 Nottingham Forest 41 12 13 16 34 39 20 6 7 7 19 19 21 6 6 9 15 20 -5 49
16 Preston North End 41 14 6 21 41 55 21 5 5 11 16 24 20 9 1 10 25 31 -14 48
17 Blackburn Rovers 41 12 11 18 52 47 20 6 7 7 25 23 21 6 4 11 27 24 5 47
18 Birmingham City 41 11 12 18 31 50 21 6 3 12 17 32 20 5 9 6 14 18 -19 45
19 Huddersfield Town 41 11 11 19 43 62 21 8 6 7 27 21 20 3 5 12 16 41 -19 44
20 Derby County 41 11 10 20 30 46 21 6 6 9 16 21 20 5 4 11 14 25 -16 43
21 Coventry City 40 10 12 18 36 56 20 8 7 5 22 20 20 2 5 13 14 36 -20 42
22 Rotherham United 38 11 6 21 41 52 19 5 3 11 24 30 19 6 3 10 17 22 -11 39
23 Sheffield Wednesday 41 11 8 22 34 54 20 7 6 7 20 16 21 4 2 15 14 38 -20 35
24 Wycombe Wanderers 41 8 9 24 30 64 21 5 5 11 14 27 20 3 4 13 16 37 -34 33

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The English Football League Championship (usually shortened to the Championship) is the second highest division in the English football league system. 24 teams play 46 fixtures from August to May, meeting each other twice. The Championship is the wealthiest second-level division in the world.