National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Norwich City or Coventry City that keep their silverware dream alive.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Norwich City form and stats
Last season, Norwich's FA Cup journey ended in the quarter-finals.25 points is a decent return from 12 Championship games here at Carrow Road for Norwich City. The data says 7 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss. In general it's been a long time since Norwich tasted defeat here at Carrow Road, as they have taken at least one point from their last ten home games in the league.
A nice win for Norwich last time playing, versus Barnsley. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0 with Emiliano Buendía scoring for the victors. In the match before that, Norwich hosted Queens Park Rangers and drew the Championship game 1-1.
The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Norwich's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played three games, won two matches, drawn zero and lost one.
The Norwich fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 15 in 12 matches. From these home matches, Norwich have conceded only 8 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only -1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Coventry City form and stats
Coventry was sent out of FA Cup in the 4th round replays last season.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Coventry City so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-7 (win-draw-lose).
Coventry play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-1 victory visiting Millwall. Prior to that match, the Coventry manager M. Robins faced defeat when travelling to Preston North End and losing 0-2.
A victory against Millwall as mentioned above, but the margin of victory could have been bigger as Coventry hit the posts three times.
Looking at the earlier recent performances of Coventry when being an outsider away as they are today, we find six matches with the visitors losing three times, drawing two and winning one game.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Coventry as they have only managed to score 10 times from 12 away games in the league. Coventry City struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 18 goals conceded from these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only -1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings between the teams: Norwich won four, Coventry City won three and three draws. five games with over 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  T. Pukki 11 goals |  E. Buendía 7 goals |   M. Godden 4 goals |
Norwich City missing players
Coventry City missing players
| Norwich City | Coventry City | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 7 | Won | W | 3 | 7 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 9 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 7 | 9 | ||
| 32 | 15 | Scored | S | 12 | 24 | ||
| 23 | 8 | Conceded | C | 19 | 32 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 80% | ||
| 60% | 58% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 68% | ||
| 44% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 40% | ||
| 20% | 8% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 7% | 24% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 12% | ||
| 56% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 57% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 14% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 40% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.3 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 15.8 | 18.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.1 | 9.2 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 2.6 | ||
| 28% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 36% | ||
| 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 | 23 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 31 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 11 | 47 |
| 2 | Swansea City | 23 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 27 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 43 |
| 3 | AFC Bournemouth | 22 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 37 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 19 | 41 |
| 4 | Brentford | 22 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 36 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 15 | 41 |
| 5 | Reading | 23 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 34 | 28 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 16 | 6 | 40 |
| 6 | Watford | 22 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 25 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 37 |
| 7 | Middlesbrough | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 28 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 36 |
| 8 | Stoke City | 23 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 26 | 22 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 35 |
| 9 | Barnsley | 23 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 27 | 29 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 18 | -2 | 34 |
| 10 | Bristol City | 22 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 23 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 14 | -1 | 33 |
| 11 | Blackburn Rovers | 23 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 38 | 27 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 32 |
| 12 | Preston North End | 23 | 10 | 2 | 11 | 30 | 31 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 18 | -1 | 32 |
| 13 | Huddersfield Town | 23 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 28 | 32 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 21 | -4 | 31 |
| 14 | Luton Town | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 13 | -4 | 30 |
| 15 | Cardiff City | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 29 | 25 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 29 |
| 16 | Coventry City | 23 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 22 | 31 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 18 | -9 | 26 |
| 17 | Millwall | 21 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 8 | -2 | 25 |
| 18 | Birmingham City | 23 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 17 | 29 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 21 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 8 | -12 | 23 |
| 19 | Nottingham Forest | 23 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 26 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 15 | -10 | 22 |
| 20 | Queens Park Rangers | 22 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 30 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 17 | -10 | 21 |
| 21 | Sheffield Wednesday | 23 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 23 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 15 | -8 | 19 |
| 22 | Derby County | 22 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 14 | 24 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 10 | -10 | 19 |
| 23 | Rotherham United | 20 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 29 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 17 | -10 | 16 |
| 24 | Wycombe Wanderers | 23 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 16 | 35 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 21 | -19 | 15 |
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