Norwich City look to Carrow Road supporters for inspiration before Luton Town match

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Tue 18.October
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Carrow Road (27244 seats)

A lot at stake in this fixture, with Norwich City in 3rd and Luton Town in 7th. Here's our match guide!

Insights:
  • Norwich City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Luton Town have the most dropped points from leading position (11) in Championship

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Norwich City and Luton Town.

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Norwich City form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Carrow Road as Norwich City have scored 14 goals to get 14 points from 7 games. The overall stats in the Championship are 4-2-1 (wins-draws-losses).

Norwich lost their last game at Watford (placed 10th) after a 1-2 scoreline. Gunn had a busy but productive day in the Watford match. Despite making seven saves the loss could not be prevented. Goalkeeper Gunn got the top rating on the team in that game; 8.4 out of ten. Gunn saved a penalty.

Ahead of that match, Norwich City lost 2-3 at home to Preston North End.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Norwich City have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 6 games) they have won 4 times, drawn 0 and lost 2.

There will be little rest for Norwich after this match as they are travelling to Sheffield United for a Championship game in only four days.

Norwich City have conceded 8 in these home matches.

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Luton Town form and stats

The visitors are W3-D2-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Championship.

Luton had fun at their own home (Carrow Road) last time out, beating Queens Park Rangers 3-1. Adebayo and Freeman scored. Midfield player Lansbury was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.6/10. Lansbury hit two key passes.

A 0-0 draw at West Bromwich Albion's stadium before that.

We have checked recent matches where Luton Town have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 10 games were 4 victories, 2 draws and 4 defeats.

Luton Town have scored 7 goals on their travels this season, from 6 away games in the league. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (4 so far).

Head 2 Head

Stats for the preceeding ten meetings involving these two contenders are: six wins for Norwich City, zero draws and four wins for Luton Town. Over 2,5 goals: eight times; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

Norwich CityJ. Sargent
J. Sargent
8 goals
Luton TownC. Morris
C. Morris
6 goals
NorwichT. Pukki
T. Pukki
4 goals

Norwich City missing players

Luton Town missing players

Norwich City Luton Town
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
14 7 0 Played P 2 6 14
7 4 0 Won W 1 3 5
3 2 0 Drew D 1 2 6
4 1 0 Lost L 0 1 3
21 14 0 Scored S 3 7 19
15 8 0 Conceded C 1 4 14
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 86%
79% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 79%
50% 57% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 17% 36%
14% 29% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 21%
14% 29% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 7%
64% 71% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 33% 50%
29% 29% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 50% 36%
7% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 29%
 
7.2 6.1 0 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 4.3 6.1
3.8 3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 9 7 6
1.2 0.9 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.5 1.7 1.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
14.7 16.9 0 Shots (avg) S ( 10 11 13.7
4.9 5.7 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 3.5 4.5
30% 35% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 33% 30%
 
10.6 9.1 0 Shots against (avg) S A 14 12.8 11.1
3.4 3.3 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.5 2 2.7
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • All of Norwich City's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Luton Town have the most dropped points from leading position (11) in Championship
  • Luton Town have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Norwich City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Norwich City have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Norwich City have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • 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 Burnley 14 6 7 1 24 12 7 3 4 0 14 7 7 3 3 1 10 5 12 25
2 Sheffield United 14 7 4 3 24 13 7 4 2 1 15 6 7 3 2 2 9 7 11 25
3 Norwich City 14 7 3 4 21 15 7 4 2 1 14 8 7 3 1 3 7 7 6 24
4 Queens Park Rangers 14 7 3 4 20 16 6 3 2 1 9 6 8 4 1 3 11 10 4 24
5 Blackburn Rovers 15 8 0 7 18 17 7 5 0 2 12 6 8 3 0 5 6 11 1 24
6 Reading 14 7 1 6 15 20 8 5 1 2 12 9 6 2 0 4 3 11 -5 22
7 Luton Town 14 5 6 3 19 14 8 2 4 2 12 10 6 3 2 1 7 4 5 21
8 Swansea City 14 6 3 5 17 20 7 3 1 3 8 9 7 3 2 2 9 11 -3 21
9 Sunderland 14 5 5 4 19 14 7 2 4 1 8 5 7 3 1 3 11 9 5 20
10 Watford 14 5 5 4 19 17 7 4 1 2 11 9 7 1 4 2 8 8 2 20
11 Millwall 14 6 2 6 17 18 7 5 0 2 11 6 7 1 2 4 6 12 -1 20
12 Stoke City 14 5 4 5 17 17 6 2 2 2 8 9 8 3 2 3 9 8 0 19
13 Preston North End 15 4 7 4 8 10 8 1 4 3 2 6 7 3 3 1 6 4 -2 19
14 Wigan Athletic 14 5 4 5 15 18 7 1 3 3 5 11 7 4 1 2 10 7 -3 19
15 Rotherham United 13 4 6 3 15 13 8 4 3 1 14 6 5 0 3 2 1 7 2 18
16 Bristol City 15 5 3 7 23 24 8 4 1 3 12 8 7 1 2 4 11 16 -1 18
17 Cardiff City 14 5 3 6 12 14 7 3 2 2 5 4 7 2 1 4 7 10 -2 18
18 Birmingham City 13 4 4 5 12 12 6 2 2 2 7 5 7 2 2 3 5 7 0 16
19 Blackpool 14 4 4 6 16 20 6 2 1 3 7 7 8 2 3 3 9 13 -4 16
20 West Bromwich Albion 14 2 8 4 19 18 7 1 4 2 11 10 7 1 4 2 8 8 1 14
21 Hull City 13 4 2 7 13 26 7 4 0 3 9 12 6 0 2 4 4 14 -13 14
22 Middlesbrough 14 3 4 7 15 20 8 3 3 2 10 9 6 0 1 5 5 11 -5 13
23 Huddersfield Town 13 3 2 8 16 21 7 3 1 3 9 7 6 0 1 5 7 14 -5 11
24 Coventry City 11 2 4 5 9 14 3 1 0 2 1 2 8 1 4 3 8 12 -5 10

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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.