Norwich City vs Portsmouth Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Norwich City

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Norwich City will be hoping for a better result following the 2-1 Championship defeat last time out to Burnley.

In that match, Norwich City managed 55% possession and 12 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. The only player to score for Norwich City was Jack Stacey (76'). On the other side, Burnley got 8 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Hannibal Mejbri (14') and Jaidon Anthony (24') scored for Burnley.

Over their last 6 games, Johannes Hoff Thorup's Norwich City have found the net a combined total of 6 times giving them an average number of goals per match equal to 1.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Norwich City:

• haven't lost in the league to Portsmouth in their last 2 matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Portsmouth

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Previously, Portsmouth drew 2-2 in the Championship match with Derby County.

In that match, Portsmouth managed 60% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 5 on target. The scorer for Portsmouth was Rob Atkinson (71', 75' Own goal, 91'). For their opponents, Derby County got 10 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Jerry Yates (70') scored for Derby County.

The numbers tell their own story, and Portsmouth have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 9 goals overall. In defence, Portsmouth can certainly do much better. That sort of pattern might not be sustained into this game, though.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Portsmouth:

• remain unbeaten by Norwich City when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 4 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 02/10/2004 tells us that Norwich City have won 1 of these games & Portsmouth 2, with the number of draws being 3.

10 goals were produced between them in this period, with 4 for The Canaries and 6 for Pompey. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.67.

The previous league encounter featuring these clubs was Championship match day 20 on 10/12/2024 when it finished Portsmouth 0-0 Norwich City.

On that occasion, Portsmouth had 44% possession and 15 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

Norwich City got 5 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.

The referee was Andrew Kitchen.

ℹ️ Team News: Norwich City

Tony Springett (Back injury), Amankwah Forson (Knee problems) and Liam Gibbs (Hamstring injury) won’t be able to feature for Norwich City boss Johannes Hoff Thorup.

📋 Team News: Portsmouth

From a largely available group of players, there’s only the one fitness worry for the Portsmouth gaffer John Mousinho to contend with. Ibane Bowat (Patellar tendon rupture) misses out for this game.

⚡ Prediction

We’re thinking that Portsmouth are capable enough to score against this Norwich City lineup, although it isn’t expected to be as many as they will have scored against them.

We’re expecting a very close game with a 2-1 winning score for Norwich City at full-time. Could easily see this go either way.

📚 ⚽️ What are the best odds for the game?

Regarding the current betting odds in the 90 min. result market, staking on Norwich City can be had for 1.8, going for the draw is 3.8 & taking a punt on a win for Portsmouth can be had at 4.2. They’re the best market prices being offered as of now.

Andre Moura, 10:02 16/04/2025