Championship preview: Can Norwich City edge out victory against Queens Park Rangers?

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Wed 02.November
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Carrow Road (27244 seats)

A crucial game in Championship as both contenders are battling for the top spots. With Norwich City in 5th position and Queens Park Rangers located at 3rd, this has all the looks of an exciting battle. Read on to learn more!

Insights:
  • Norwich City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Queens Park Rangers have the most scored goals in the first half (16) in Championship

These are active days for the team playing at home, as they had a game only four days ago in the Championship. This match was also played here at Carrow Road. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Queens Park Rangers have had more rest.

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Norwich City form and stats

Norwich City have played 9 Championship games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-2-2 (wins-draws-losses).

Norwich City's last game was hosting Stoke City (placed 19th) and winning 3-1. A huge relief, as that was the first three points in the league after failing to win six consecutive fixtures. Midfielder Ramsey was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.4 (out of ten) in that game. Ramsey scored two goals and hit three key passes.

Prior to that, an away loss at Burnley.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Norwich City handle that role? We have found 6 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 3 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats.

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

A decent goal production from Norwich City in their home games so far, with 17 goals from 9 league matches. Norwich's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Queens Park Rangers form and stats

4 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses. That’s the product of Queens Park Rangers playing as the away team in the Championship this season. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Queens Park Rangers have lost on their last two travels.

Queens Park Rangers are travelling again after losing away to Birmingham City in their previous match (0-2). Chair got a match rating of 7.15 in that game, top player of the team. Chair hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

Before that, QPR secured a home win against Wigan Athletic with the score 2-1.

Queens Park Rangers are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 6 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 13 matches.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting West Bromwich Albion in just three days.

Queens Park Rangers have scored 11 goals on their travels this season, from 9 away games in the league. 12 goals have been conceded by QPR in these games.

Head 2 Head

Norwich City have avoided defeat in the last 4 fixtures (3-1-0) versus Queens Park Rangers.

Top Goalscorers

Norwich CityJ. Sargent
J. Sargent
8 goals
Norwich CityT. Pukki
T. Pukki
6 goals
Queens Park RangersC. Willock
C. Willock
6 goals

Norwich City missing players

Queens Park Rangers missing players

Norwich City Queens Park Rangers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
18 9 1 Played P 5 9 17
8 5 1 Won W 3 4 9
4 2 0 Drew D 0 1 3
6 2 0 Lost L 2 4 5
26 17 2 Scored S 6 11 25
20 10 0 Conceded C 4 12 19
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
72% 89% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 40% 67% 71%
50% 56% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 20% 44% 53%
22% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 33% 29%
11% 22% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 11% 12%
61% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 20% 44% 53%
22% 22% 100% Clean Sheets C S 40% 22% 24%
17% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 40% 33% 29%
 
6.8 5.8 5 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.3 4.6
3.9 3.2 4 Corners against (avg) C A 5.4 5.6 4.9
1.8 1.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.2 1.3 1.5
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13.5 16.2 19 Shots (avg) S ( 9 12 13.1
4.6 5.2 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.8 3.2 4.4
32% 36% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 38% 34%
 
11.2 9.7 11 Shots against (avg) S A 13.6 13.2 11.2
3.4 3.2 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.4 4.3 3.3
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Norwich City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Norwich City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Queens Park Rangers have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in Championship
  • Queens Park Rangers have the most scored goals in the first half (16) in Championship
  • Queens Park Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 18 9 8 1 32 16 9 5 4 0 17 8 9 4 4 1 15 8 16 35
2 Blackburn Rovers 18 11 0 7 23 18 9 7 0 2 16 7 9 4 0 5 7 11 5 33
3 Queens Park Rangers 17 9 3 5 25 19 8 5 2 1 14 7 9 4 1 4 11 12 6 30
4 Sheffield United 17 8 5 4 28 16 8 4 3 1 17 8 9 4 2 3 11 8 12 29
5 Norwich City 18 8 4 6 26 20 9 5 2 2 17 10 9 3 2 4 9 10 6 28
6 Swansea City 17 8 4 5 23 23 9 5 1 3 13 11 8 3 3 2 10 12 0 28
7 Watford 17 7 5 5 24 20 8 5 1 2 15 9 9 2 4 3 9 11 4 26
8 Millwall 17 8 2 7 22 20 9 7 0 2 16 7 8 1 2 5 6 13 2 26
9 Luton Town 17 6 7 4 21 19 9 2 5 2 13 11 8 4 2 2 8 8 2 25
10 Preston North End 18 6 7 5 13 15 9 2 4 3 4 7 9 4 3 2 9 8 -2 25
11 Reading 17 8 1 8 20 25 9 6 1 2 14 9 8 2 0 6 6 16 -5 25
12 Birmingham City 17 6 5 6 18 15 8 3 3 2 10 6 9 3 2 4 8 9 3 23
13 Rotherham United 17 5 7 5 20 20 9 4 3 2 16 10 8 1 4 3 4 10 0 22
14 Bristol City 18 6 4 8 26 27 9 4 2 3 13 9 9 2 2 5 13 18 -1 22
15 Blackpool 17 6 4 7 23 26 8 3 1 4 12 12 9 3 3 3 11 14 -3 22
16 Sunderland 17 5 6 6 22 21 8 2 4 2 10 9 9 3 2 4 12 12 1 21
17 Cardiff City 17 6 3 8 13 19 8 4 2 2 6 4 9 2 1 6 7 15 -6 21
18 Hull City 17 6 2 9 20 32 9 4 0 5 9 15 8 2 2 4 11 17 -12 20
19 Stoke City 17 5 4 8 18 23 8 2 2 4 8 12 9 3 2 4 10 11 -5 19
20 Wigan Athletic 17 5 4 8 17 25 9 1 3 5 6 16 8 4 1 3 11 9 -8 19
21 Middlesbrough 17 4 5 8 20 23 9 3 4 2 10 9 8 1 1 6 10 14 -3 17
22 Coventry City 15 4 5 6 15 18 6 2 1 3 5 6 9 2 4 3 10 12 -3 17
23 Huddersfield Town 16 4 3 9 17 22 9 4 1 4 10 8 7 0 2 5 7 14 -5 15
24 West Bromwich Albion 17 2 8 7 20 24 9 1 4 4 11 14 8 1 4 3 9 10 -4 14

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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.