Norwich City favourites for feisty fight facing Birmingham City

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Sat 30.Sep
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Carrow Road (27244 seats)

Norwich City have played great football so far this season, sitting at 8th place in the table. Birmingham City have an outlook both up and down from their 10th spot.

Insights:
  • Norwich City have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Birmingham City have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Championship

The hosts Norwich City saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Carabao Cup. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Fulham.

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Norwich City form and stats

3-0-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Championship numbers at home for Norwich City so far this season.

The regulars hope that Norwich will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 1-2 away defeat in the Carabao Cup fixture against Fulham. Midfield player Forshaw got a match rating of 7.24 in that game, the max score being 10. Forshaw hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 30 successful passes (of 30 total).

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Plymouth Argyle (2-6).

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Norwich City handle that role? We have found 11 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Norwich as they are travelling to their away game against Swansea City in the Championship. That match is four days after this one.

A decent goal production from Norwich City in their home games so far, with 6 goals from 4 league matches.

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Birmingham City form and stats

1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Birmingham City playing as the away team in the Championship this season. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Birmingham are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.

Birmingham City's last game was the home draw against Queens Park Rangers (0-0). Ruddy (goalkeeper) was the best performer with a rating of 8.14. Ruddy topped it up with a clean sheet.

Prior to that match, the Birmingham manager Eustace faced defeat when travelling to Preston North End and losing 1-2.

We have checked recent matches where Birmingham City have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 15 games were 3 victories, 6 draws and 6 defeats.

After this away game Birmingham City return home for a Championship game against Huddersfield Town. That game is only three sleeps after this.

As opposed to that, Birmingham have seen the ball go into their own net 5 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Norwich City have pulled off a sequence of 10 consecutive matches without defeat (8-2-0) when facing Birmingham City.

Top Goalscorers

Norwich CityA. Idah
A. Idah
4 goals
NorwichJ. Rowe
J. Rowe
4 goals
Norwich CityJ. Sargent
J. Sargent
3 goals

Norwich City missing players

Birmingham City missing players

Norwich City Birmingham City
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
8 4 1 Played P 1 4 8
4 3 1 Won W 0 1 3
1 0 0 Drew D 0 1 3
3 1 0 Lost L 1 2 2
17 6 3 Scored S 1 4 8
16 4 1 Conceded C 2 5 7
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 88%
88% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 75%
75% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 25% 25%
50% 25% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
25% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
62% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 50%
25% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 38%
12% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 25%
 
6.1 7.5 6 Corners for (avg) C F 2 3 4.4
4.1 2.8 3 Corners against (avg) C A 5 6.5 6.2
1.8 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 3.5 2.6
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
16 19 20 Shots (avg) S ( 16 12.8 12.8
4.9 4.2 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.5 4
44% 35% 60% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 22% 25%
 
14.5 10.5 10 Shots against (avg) S A 10 10.5 10.2
4.9 2.5 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 3.2 3.6
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • All of Birmingham City's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Birmingham City have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Birmingham City have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Championship
  • Birmingham City have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Birmingham City haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Norwich City have scored more than double the goals of Birmingham City.
  • Norwich City have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Norwich City have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Norwich City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Leicester City 8 7 0 1 14 5 4 3 0 1 5 3 4 4 0 0 9 2 9 21
2 Ipswich Town 8 7 0 1 17 10 4 3 0 1 12 9 4 4 0 0 5 1 7 21
3 Preston North End 8 6 2 0 13 6 4 4 0 0 8 4 4 2 2 0 5 2 7 20
4 Hull City 8 4 3 1 13 8 4 1 3 0 6 4 4 3 0 1 7 4 5 15
5 Sunderland 8 4 1 3 15 8 4 2 0 2 8 4 4 2 1 1 7 4 7 13
6 Leeds United 8 3 4 1 13 7 4 1 3 0 6 3 4 2 1 1 7 4 6 13
7 Cardiff City 8 4 1 3 14 12 4 3 0 1 8 5 4 1 1 2 6 7 2 13
8 Norwich City 8 4 1 3 17 16 4 3 0 1 6 4 4 1 1 2 11 12 1 13
9 Bristol City 8 3 3 2 9 7 4 1 2 1 5 4 4 2 1 1 4 3 2 12
10 Birmingham City 8 3 3 2 8 7 4 2 2 0 4 2 4 1 1 2 4 5 1 12
11 Millwall 8 3 2 3 7 8 4 2 0 2 4 4 4 1 2 1 3 4 -1 11
12 Plymouth Argyle 8 3 1 4 16 13 4 3 0 1 13 5 4 0 1 3 3 8 3 10
13 West Bromwich Albion 8 2 4 2 12 11 4 2 1 1 8 6 4 0 3 1 4 5 1 10
14 Blackburn Rovers 8 3 1 4 12 16 4 2 0 2 6 7 4 1 1 2 6 9 -4 10
15 Southampton 8 3 1 4 12 19 4 1 1 2 7 10 4 2 0 2 5 9 -7 10
16 Watford 8 2 3 3 11 10 5 2 2 1 8 3 3 0 1 2 3 7 1 9
17 Huddersfield Town 8 2 3 3 9 13 4 1 1 2 4 7 4 1 2 1 5 6 -4 9
18 Coventry City 8 1 5 2 12 11 4 1 3 0 7 4 4 0 2 2 5 7 1 8
19 Queens Park Rangers 8 2 2 4 7 12 3 0 1 2 2 5 5 2 1 2 5 7 -5 8
20 Stoke City 8 2 1 5 8 12 4 2 0 2 6 6 4 0 1 3 2 6 -4 7
21 Swansea City 8 1 3 4 10 12 4 1 2 1 6 4 4 0 1 3 4 8 -2 6
22 Middlesbrough 8 1 2 5 7 15 4 1 1 2 3 5 4 0 1 3 4 10 -8 5
23 Rotherham United 8 1 2 5 8 17 4 1 2 1 6 6 4 0 0 4 2 11 -9 5
24 Sheffield Wednesday 8 0 2 6 5 14 4 0 1 3 2 5 4 0 1 3 3 9 -9 2

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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.