Soccer betting preview: Swansea City welcomes Norwich City in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Fri 05.February
Match begins: 20:15 (UTC)
Venue: Liberty Stadium (20827 seats)

A key match in Championship as both teams are battling for the top positions. With Swansea City in 2nd position and Norwich City placed 1st, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!

Insights:
  • Swansea City has the fewest conceded goals (15) in Championship
  • Norwich City has the most points (26) away in Championship

The visiting Norwich City played their last game only three days ago, a Championship match. That game, against Millwall, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Norwich City.

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Swansea City form and stats

26 points is a decent return from 13 Championship games here at Liberty Stadium for Swansea City. The data says 7 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss. In general it's been a long time since Swansea tasted defeat here at Liberty Stadium, as they have taken at least one point from their last ten home games in the league.

Swansea City are returning here after visiting Rotherham United in a Championship game and winning with a 3-1 scoreline. Jay Fulton, Matt Grimes and Conor Hourihane scored the goal(s). Preceding that game was the home draw versus Brentford that ended 1-1.

Swansea City has scored 16 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. Defensively Swansea have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (6 in 13 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Norwich City form and stats

The away team, who have the most points (26) away in Championship, have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 8 wins, 2 draws and only 3 losses in the Championship.

Norwich are looking to quickly end their 194 minutes long goal drought in the Championship. 295 minutes! That's how long the Norwich goalkeeper Tim Krul and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

Norwich are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 0-0 draw at Millwall (placed 14th). Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Middlesbrough.

The visiting Norwich have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 18 goals from 13 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As opposed to that, Norwich City have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Norwich City - Swansea 1-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - two - six (Swansea wins - draws - Norwich City wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Norwich CityT. Pukki
T. Pukki
11 goals
SwanseaJ. Lowe
J. Lowe
9 goals
Swansea CityA. Ayew Pelé
A. Ayew Pelé
8 goals

Swansea City missing players

Norwich City missing players

Swansea City Norwich City
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
26 13 5 Played P 6 13 27
14 7 2 Won W 3 8 16
8 5 3 Drew D 1 2 7
4 1 0 Lost L 2 3 4
33 16 5 Scored S 6 18 35
15 6 2 Conceded C 5 13 21
88% 77% 60% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 89%
73% 69% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 62% 59%
19% 23% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 54% 41%
4% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 23% 15%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 4%
38% 38% 40% BTTS BTTS 50% 62% 52%
54% 62% 60% Clean Sheets C S 17% 23% 37%
19% 23% 40% Failed to Score F T 33% 23% 22%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.7 1.8 2.6 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.7 1.5 1.5
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
10.3 10.6 8.8 Shots (avg) S ( 12.3 14.1 15.9
3.3 3.2 1.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.7 4.7 4.5
38% 38% 56% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 30% 29%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Norwich City has the most points (26) away in Championship
  • Norwich City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Swansea City has the fewest conceded goals (15) in Championship
  • Swansea City has the fewest conceded goals (6) at home in Championship
  • Swansea City has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7) in Championship
  • Swansea City has the most clean sheets (14) in Championship
  • Swansea City has the most clean sheets (8) at home in Championship
  • Swansea City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Swansea City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.

  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 27 16 7 4 35 21 14 8 5 1 17 8 13 8 2 3 18 13 14 55
2 Swansea City 26 14 8 4 33 15 13 7 5 1 16 6 13 7 3 3 17 9 18 50
3 Brentford 25 13 9 3 45 24 13 7 5 1 26 13 12 6 4 2 19 11 21 48
4 Reading 26 14 5 7 40 29 13 9 0 4 22 13 13 5 5 3 18 16 11 47
5 Watford 27 13 8 6 31 20 14 10 2 2 24 11 13 3 6 4 7 9 11 47
6 AFC Bournemouth 27 11 9 7 40 26 13 7 3 3 22 12 14 4 6 4 18 14 14 42
7 Middlesbrough 27 11 7 9 30 24 13 7 2 4 15 9 14 4 5 5 15 15 6 40
8 Blackburn Rovers 26 11 6 9 41 28 13 6 4 3 20 13 13 5 2 6 21 15 13 39
9 Bristol City 26 12 3 11 27 28 13 7 2 4 14 11 13 5 1 7 13 17 -1 39
10 Stoke City 27 9 11 7 32 29 13 5 3 5 18 19 14 4 8 2 14 10 3 38
11 Preston North End 27 11 3 13 31 34 13 4 2 7 10 13 14 7 1 6 21 21 -3 36
12 Barnsley 27 10 6 11 29 34 13 6 3 4 16 15 14 4 3 7 13 19 -5 36
13 Luton Town 26 9 6 11 21 28 12 5 4 3 15 13 14 4 2 8 6 15 -7 33
14 Millwall 27 6 14 7 22 25 13 1 9 3 9 12 14 5 5 4 13 13 -3 32
15 Huddersfield Town 27 9 5 13 30 38 14 7 2 5 18 13 13 2 3 8 12 25 -8 32
16 Cardiff City 26 8 7 11 33 31 14 4 3 7 20 18 12 4 4 4 13 13 2 31
17 Queens Park Rangers 26 7 9 10 25 32 12 3 4 5 11 14 14 4 5 5 14 18 -7 30
18 Coventry City 27 7 9 11 26 37 13 5 5 3 15 15 14 2 4 8 11 22 -11 30
19 Nottingham Forest 27 7 8 12 22 30 14 4 5 5 14 14 13 3 3 7 8 16 -8 29
20 Derby County 26 7 7 12 17 25 14 3 4 7 7 15 12 4 3 5 10 10 -8 28
21 Birmingham City 27 6 10 11 19 31 14 2 3 9 9 23 13 4 7 2 10 8 -12 28
22 Sheffield Wednesday 26 8 7 11 18 26 13 5 5 3 10 8 13 3 2 8 8 18 -8 25
23 Rotherham United 24 6 5 13 27 35 12 3 3 6 16 18 12 3 2 7 11 17 -8 23
24 Wycombe Wanderers 25 3 7 15 18 42 13 2 5 6 8 14 12 1 2 9 10 28 -24 16

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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.