📏 Form Guide

Preston North End

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Preston North End, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 4-1 Championship success against Huddersfield Town.

In that match, Preston North End managed 60% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 7 on target. For Preston North End, the scorers were Will Keane (53') and Milutin Osmajić (84', 87', 91'). At the other end, Huddersfield Town got 8 shots on goal with 2 on target. Josh Koroma (42') scored for Huddersfield Town.

Their most recent results shine a light on the fact that much respect should be given to the Preston North End defence. Preston North End have kept it tight, resulting in the tally of goals that have gone in at their end over the course of their last six matches standing at 3.

Leading up to this clash, Preston North End:

• have left without a victory over Norwich City in their last 2 matches in the league.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

Norwich City

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In their last game, Norwich City drew 2-2 in the Championship match with Sheffield Wednesday.

In that game, Norwich City had 58% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Norwich City, the goals were scored by Josh Sargent (11') and Borja Sainz (16'). Sheffield Wednesday got 11 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Michael Ihiekwe (78') and Michael Smith (85') scored for Sheffield Wednesday.

In their previous 6 outings, Norwich City have bagged the sum of 14 goals. Norwich City have also not failed to score in every single one of those games. During that period, they’ve had 4 goals go against them. It will be interesting to find out whether or not that trend will be continued on into this next match.

A look at their previous results shows us that Norwich City:

• remain undefeated by Preston North End in games played away from home for the previous 2 league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 04/01/2020 tells us that Preston North End have won 1 of these and Norwich City 2, with the tally of drawn results being 3.

A total of 21 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 8 of them for The Lilywhites and 13 being from The Canaries. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.5.

The previous league clash between these clubs was Championship match day 20 on 09/12/2023 when the final score was Norwich City 0-0 Preston North End.

On that day, Norwich City had 64% possession and 18 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

On the other side, Preston North End had 6 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Oliver Langford.

📰 Team News: Preston North End

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just a single fitness concern for the Preston North End boss Ryan Lowe to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed squad. Finlay Cross-Adair (traffic accident) will miss out.

We think that The Lilywhites may well make use of the 3-4-1-2 formation, beginning the first half with Freddie Woodman, Jordan Storey, Liam Lindsay, Greg Cunningham, Robert Brady, Duane Holmes, Alistair McCann, Andrew Hughes, M. Frøkjær-Jensen, Emil Riis Jakobsen and Will Keane.

🗞️ Team News: Norwich City

Norwich City boss David Wagner has not got a full squad to pick from. Jonathan Rowe (Hamstring injury), Grant Hanley (unknown injury) and Dimitrios Giannoulis (Hamstring injury) are those who can’t be considered.

We reckon that The Canaries seem most likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 system, giving starts to Angus Gunn, Jack Stacey, Danny Batth, Ben Gibson, Sam McCallum, Marcelino Núñez, Kenny McLean, Gabriel Sara, Ashley Barnes, Borja Sainz and Josh Sargent.

🧠 Prediction

Our assessment here is that Preston North End will need to apply a lot of pressure to find the net against this Norwich City team who we think might do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

We’re therefore anticipating a highly competitive game with a 0-1 winning score for Norwich City at the end of the match.

Expecting it to be tight.

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Peter Guest, 13:01 13/04/2024