Stoke City vs Norwich City Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Stoke City

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Stoke City will play in this fixture following on from a 1-1 Championship drawn game versus Middlesbrough.

In that match, Stoke City managed 51% possession and 11 shots at goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for Stoke City was Ki-Jana Hoever (45'). On the other side, Middlesbrough had 9 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Chuba Akpom (23') scored for Middlesbrough.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games that Stoke City have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Stoke City have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 games, shipping 7 goals on the way.

Going into this encounter, Stoke City haven't won against Norwich City in their previous 4 matches in the league.

Norwich City

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In the game prior to this, Norwich City drew 1-1 in the Championship tie with Huddersfield Town.

In that game, Norwich City managed 67% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. For Norwich City, the goals were scored by Gabriel Sara (26') and Grant Hanley (65' Own goal). For their opponents, Huddersfield Town got 11 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target.

Throughout their six latest matches, David Wagner's Norwich City have turned their attacks into goals a total of 9 times - giving them a goals scored per game average of 1.5.

Ahead of this meeting, Norwich City have not been beaten by Stoke City in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 13/01/2016 tells us that Stoke City have won 2 of them and Norwich City 3, with the tally of drawn results standing at 1.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 23 in all which averages out at 3.83 goals per match.

The previous league fixture featuring these clubs was Championship match day 18 on 29/10/2022 and the score finished Norwich City 3-1 Stoke City.

On that day, Norwich City had 43% possession and 16 shots at goal with 9 on target. The goals were scored by Aaron Ramsey (38', 71') and Gabriel Sara (77').

Stoke City got 17 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Nick Powell (92') scored.

The match was refereed by Keith Stroud.

📰 Team News: Stoke City

The Stoke City boss Alex Neil will be grateful to have no fitness concerns at all coming into this clash with a fully injury-free group available for selection.

In all likelihood, The Potters will probably go for a 4-2-3-1 formation, utilising Jack Bonham, Dujon Sterling, Ben Wilmot, Axel Tuanzebe, Ki-Jana Hoever, Ben Pearson, Josh Laurent, Jacob Brown, William Smallbone, Tyrese Campbell and Dwight Gayle.

📰 Team News: Norwich City

Norwich City boss David Wagner has to choose a team with limited availability. Przemyslaw Placheta (Shin bone bruise) and Isaac Hayden (Knee Injury) will not be playing here.

We believe The Canaries appear most likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 system, settling for Angus Gunn, Max Aarons, Grant Hanley, Andrew Omobamidele, Dimitris Giannoulis, Kenny McLean, Jakob Sörensen, Christos Tzolis, Gabriel Sara, Josh Sargent and Teemu Pukki.

💭 Prediction

We feel that Norwich City and Stoke City may well find themselves both scoring in what promises to be a very even battle here.

Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we end up with scores level. Our tip is therefore for a very close game with a 1-1 draw at the end of the 90 minutes.

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Andre Moura, 02:27 14/03/2023