Middlesbrough vs Norwich City Live Stream, Predictions (Apr 26)

📏 Form Guide

Middlesbrough

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Middlesbrough won’t want a repeat of their last result here following a 2-1 Championship loss in their previous game against Sheffield Wednesday.

In that game, Middlesbrough had 55% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 6 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Middlesbrough was Finn Azaz (11'). On the other side, Sheffield Wednesday had 25 attempts on goal with 11 on target. Josh Windass (54') and Anthony Musaba (89') scored for Sheffield Wednesday.

It has been seldom in recent games that Middlesbrough have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that Middlesbrough have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 6 goals during that time.

Coming into this meeting, Middlesbrough haven't been beaten in the league by Norwich City in their previous 6 matches.

Norwich City

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After being beaten in their last game against Millwall in Championship action, Norwich City and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Norwich City managed 58% possession and 3 attempts on goal with 1 on target. The scorer for Norwich City was Shane Duffy (45'). Millwall had 16 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Mihailo Ivanović (8', 69') and Femi Azeez (39') scored for Millwall.

Throughout their six most recent matches, Johannes Hoff Thorup's Norwich City have found the net a total of 7 times therefore yielding them a goals per game average of 1.17.

Their previous form shows that Norwich City:

• have left without a victory over Middlesbrough in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.
• are without an away win for the past 6 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings stretching back to 30/01/2021 tells us that these fixtures have not been fruitful for Norwich City. They’ve not been able to get themselves any victories whatsoever while Middlesbrough have just been too good for them, beating them in 67 per cent of those games where they have faced each other.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 22 overall which averages out at 3.67 goals per match.

The last league clash featuring the two was Championship match day 12 on 27/10/2024 when the final score was Norwich City 3-3 Middlesbrough.

That time, Norwich City managed 50% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player to score was Borja Sainz (9', 71').

For their opponents, Middlesbrough had 15 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Tommy Conway (13', 40'), Finn Azaz (45') and Seny Dieng (80' Own goal) scored.

The match was refereed by James Bell.

ℹ️ Team News: Middlesbrough

Riley McGree (unknown injury), Aidan Morris (Knee injury) and Darragh Lenihan (Ankle surgery) won’t be able to feature for Middlesbrough boss Michael Carrick.

📋 Team News: Norwich City

Norwich City boss Johannes Hoff Thorup has to currently contend with reduced team options. Tony Springett (Back injury), Amankwah Forson (Knee problems) and Liam Gibbs (Hamstring injury) are not able to play.

🧠 Prediction

We’re of the view that Norwich City should have enough to get a goal against this Middlesbrough team, although it may not prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We reckon that it will be both teams to score in a 2-1 win for Middlesbrough at the end of this one. Let’s just see how this one goes.

💵 ⚽️ What are the best odds for this match?

Checking the latest betting odds for this match in the full-time result market, backing Middlesbrough is available for 1.48, going for a drawn result is 4.5 & staking on the winner to be Norwich City gets 5.75. They’re the best market prices being offered at the moment.

Victor Martins, 07:01 22/04/2025