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Premier League Bound Norwich City Face Promotion Chasing Watford

Norwich City vs Watford - 20/04/2021

Premier League Bound Norwich City Face Promotion Chasing Watford
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We have an exciting game to look forward to in the English Championship on Tuesday the 20th of April as Norwich City welcome Watford to Carrow Road.

The hosts begin the match sitting top of the table and have secured promotion to the Premier League and the visitors are in second place, hoping to extend their advantage over the chasing teams.

Norwich City come into the game on the back of a 3-1 home defeat at the hands of promotion chasing Bournemouth on the weekend.

It was a strange day for the club because having taken an early lead it appeared as though they were going to seal promotion by winning the game. The red card for Dimitris Giannoulis soon changed the game and Bournemouth went on to score 3 goals and win the match.

However, thanks to results elsewhere Norwich City won promotion and now their aim is to ensure they finish top of the table.

The defeat against Bournemouth was the first for Norwich City in 14 Championship games. Their home record shows they are undefeated in 18 of their last 19 Championship fixtures at Carrow Road.

Trends show there have been 14 consecutive Championship clashes for Norwich City in which they managed to score at least one goal.

That includes each of their last 7 home games in the league and Norwich City have managed to keep a clean sheet in 4 of their last 6 on home soil.

Watford come into the match having lost 1-0 at Luton Town on the weekend. It was a disappointing result for the Hornets and they will be aiming to get back to winning ways.

It was the first defeat for Watford in 9 Championship games and they had been in good form prior to the loss.

Watford have won 7 of their last 9 Championship fixtures but only 2 of their last 5 on the road. Watford have failed to pick up maximum points in their two most recent away games having been held to a 1-1 draw at Middlesbrough prior to the defeat against Luton Town.

Trends show Watford are undefeated at half time in their last 22 Championship games in a row but they have been struggling for clean sheets when playing away, conceding at least one goal in each of their last 6 away Championship games.

Team news and Norwich City are without the suspended Dimitris Giannoulis. Jacob Sorensen is expected to return to the starting XI but Christoph Zimmermann, Lukas Rupp, Adam Idah, Ben Gibson, Sam Byram, Michael McGovern all miss out due to injury.

Watford will be without the suspended Kiko Femenia following his red card on the weekend. Philip Zinckernagel should be available but Tom Dele-Bashiru and Troy Deeney are injured.

Norwich City know they can win the title by taking maximum points from this game.

However, it is a hugely important match for Watford in terms of their own promotion hopes and this one could end level, with both teams scoring.

Home team
Away team
Probability %
1X2
Pred
Correct score
Avg. goals
Weather conditions
Coef.
Score
Live
coef.
CH
353629
X
2 - 2
3.35
11°
3.45
2.35 3.45 3.10 -1 1 1
FT
0 - 1(0 - 0)
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- - -
Championship Regular Season
OVERALL TABLE PTS GP W D L +/-
1
Leicester City 94 44 30 4 10 47
2
Leeds United 90 45 27 9 9 39
3
Ipswich Town 89 43 26 11 6 32
4
Southampton 84 44 25 9 10 24
5
West Bromwich 72 44 20 12 12 23
6
Norwich City 72 44 21 9 14 16
7
Hull City 69 44 19 12 13 9
8
Coventry City 63 43 17 12 14 13
9
Middlesbrough 63 44 18 9 17 4
10
Preston North End 63 44 18 9 17 -5
11
Cardiff City 62 44 19 5 20 -11
12
Bristol City 59 44 16 11 17 4
13
Sunderland 56 44 16 8 20 1
14
Swansea City 56 44 15 11 18 -5
15
Watford 53 44 12 17 15 1
16
QPR 53 45 14 11 20 -12
17
Millwall 53 44 14 11 19 -12
18
Stoke City 50 44 13 11 20 -16
19
Blackburn Rovers 49 44 13 10 21 -16
20
Plymouth Argyle 48 44 12 12 20 -11
21
Sheffield Wednesday 47 44 13 8 23 -29
22
Birmingham City 46 44 12 10 22 -16
23
Huddersfield 44 44 9 17 18 -27
24
Rotherham 24 44 4 12 28 -53

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