Norwich City vs Millwall. Prediction and Preview. Probable Lineups, Team News, Stats and more

Norwich City will host Millwall in the 5th tour of the EFL Championship at the Сarrow Road. The fixture will take place on August 19, beginning at 00:30 IST.

Parimatchnews will tell you everything you need to know ahead of the upcoming match.

Norwich City News & Current Form: 

Norwich has the most expensive squad in the Championship, with an experienced English Premier League level coach Dean Smith and a parachute payment of around €100 million after relegation from the Elite Division. And before that, the Canaries also sold €82 million worth of players in two seasons. There is a lot of money to spend, for instance, the club can boast the acquisition of Gabriel Sara from São Paulo, Brazil, a record purchase (€10.50m) among 24 teams so far in this summer transfer window.

After such a description, you would probably think that the team occupies a confident first place.

However, at the moment it doesn’t look like they are favourites of the Championship. Ranking 17th after four rounds raises a lot of questions. It has been a difficult start to the season. Wins come hard, but so far they’ve managed to contain the anger of the fans. In particular, the meeting with Huddersfield gave certain optimism. Complete domination of the Canaries, already in the 16th minute they were 2-0 up. So far, Carrow Road can be called a fortress, the Yellow-Greens are performing well with the support of their stands.

The trend should continue in the coming match, perhaps the slip up at the start is just a fluke. Time to start producing some convincing wins after all, if the Canaries don’t really want to be stuck here.

Millwall News & Current Form:

Millwall FC is considered a rather popular club, although in London, it can be described as one of the most modest, given the contrast with giants such as Arsenal.  It’s all about history and fan base, back in the day it was one of the most dangerous “firms” in England, and even now the pattern continues. But as for achievements – the club has never seriously reckoned on any heights, with one of the most notable achievements of all years being their appearance in the FA Cup final in 2004 against Manchester United, where they lost 0-3. The Lions in general have spent 8 out of the last 10 seasons in the Championship, never really challenging for promotion as their resources are too limited. 

Now, these are fairly prosperous times for the Londoners, with Gary Rowett managing to keep the club in a stable condition for the fourth year straight. Before that, the club was barely scraping by at the bottom of England’s second strongest league, sometimes even relegated to third-tier League One. He is probably the most consistent coach of recent years. Last season, the English specialist’s charges managed to take a rather weighty, 9th place, and all this despite a total squad cost of €32.25m (two trillion INR). The record of the Lions in the last 18 years is the 8th place (72 points and 11 goal difference). Such a result was achieved under the last coach – Neil Harris, but immediately after that season, in 18/19, the Blue-Whites hardly managed to keep remain in the 2nd tier league finishing 21st (their 3rd worst result in 20 years). That’s when Rowett arrived at the club with a task to shake up and revitalise the club.

The season started pretty briskly for the Lions with 7 points from four rounds, which gave them a 5th place. First, they beat Stoke City 2-0, followed by a League Cup exit with an upset loss to League One side Cambridge United.

They then lost away to Sheffield United 2-0. And after that match, the London lads underwent a radical transformative change and began to show their real character, producing two crazy matches. In the next match they took on Coventry at the Den  Stadium. Yet by the 28th minute, they were 0-2 down. Imagine the ecstasy of the fans when the Liones managed to bounce back and win the match 3-2! Now that was proper English football.

This was followed by another, even more epic, comeback. In the match against Swansea, the Lions were again 2-0 down up until the end of the match. But in extra time, came a miraculous rescue in which they managed to turn the game around making final score 2-2.

Definitely, the Londoners go into the game with a fighting spirit.

Norwich City form guide: L-D-L-W

Millwall form guide: W-L-W-D

Norwich City vs Millwall Head-To-Head Record: 

Millwall have managed to won just 1 of their last 10 fixtures against Norwich. But for the Yellow-Greens, the Londoners are not exactly an easy opponent lately, in the 2020/2021 Championship season, both fixtures saw the same result 0-0.

Norwich City vs Millwall Predicted XI:

Norwich City possible starting lineup (4-3-3): Tim Krul, Max Aarons, Andrew Omobamidele, Grant Hanley, Kenny McLean, Kieran Dowell, Gabriel Sara, Marcelino Nunez, Danel Sinani, Josh Sargent, Todd Cantwell.

Millwall possible starting lineup (3-4-1-2): Bartosz Bialkowski, Charlie Cresswell, Jake Cooper, Murray Wallace, Danny McNamara, Billy Mitchell, Jamie Shackleton, Scott Malone, George Honeyman, Benik Afobe, Andreas Voglsammer.

Statistical prediction of the match Norwich City vs Millwall:

• The opponents have scored 0 goals in their 2 recent face-offs..
• Norwich City have not lost in 9 of the last 10 Championship home games against Millwall.
• Millwall have lost in 5 of the last 6 away games against Norwich City.
• Millwall have conceded in each of their last 8 away games.
• Norwich City have scored less than 1.5 goals in 10 of the last 11 home games.
• Millwall have scored less than 2.5 goals in 5 of the last 6 away games.

Norwich City vs Millwall Prediction:

The Lions have gained some good momentum right now and are in fifth place for a reason, but now they travel to Carrow Road, where their future opponent has excellent record against them. This league is known for its intensity and short breaks between games, and Millwall lost too many energy in previous two games. Gary Rowett understands that if you play three games in a row at the same tempo, there’s a big risk of losing key players, fatigue will lead to increased injury tendencies. And given the limited depth of the squad, this match will have to be played in energy-saving mode. And if the coach decides to rotate – the Lions will lose in quality. And Norwich City has a lot more quality at the moment, the Yellow-Greens gotta win this match if they want to seriously fight for the straight Promotion. Otherwise, they risk being too far behind the leaders of the Championship, and Dean Smith is well aware of this.

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Parimatch News staff prediction:

We say: Norwich City to win – Yes.