England - ChampionshipStarWelcome to the Turboscores match preview of the upcoming match between Norwich City and Blackburn Rovers, taking place on Saturday, 17 December 2022, at Carrow Road in Norwich.
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Norwich City, Recent FormNorwich City will certainly have been pleased to secure 3 points from their most recent encounter, which saw them run out 1-0 winners in their away fixture against Swansea City. In that game they had 35% possession and managed 5 attempts on goal, with 2 on target, compared to Swansea City who had 17 attempts and 7 on target.
While they have shown an appetite for goals over the last 6 matches, clocking up 7, they have not had it all their own way at the back and have given away 5 goals and some valuable points in the process. With just 1 clean sheet in the last 6 matches at home, Dean Smith will be worried about the defensive frailties within his team of late.
It's been a disappointing spell of home league form lately, having managed to rack up just 1 victory and 3 defeats in their last 6 matches.
Having scored 3 goals in his last 6 league games for Norwich City, Aaron Ramsey will be looking to keep his tally up with a goal in their next outing.
Blackburn Rovers, Recent FormBlackburn Rovers boss Jon Dahl Tomasson will need to instil positive feelings within his team after they endured a 4-1 home mauling from Preston North End. They achieved 65% possession in that match and had 7 strikes at goal, with 2 hitting the target, up against Preston North End's tally of 13 efforts at goal, 6 of which were on target.
While they have been reasonably effective at circumventing their opponents defence, scoring 5 in their last 6 games, it's largely been tit for tat with their own defence proving to be equally ineffectual, conceding 9, and leading to valuable points being dropped. They will need to tighten up at the back, having failed to keep a clean sheet in all but 1 of their last 6 away games. After failing to get on the scoresheet in 7 away games out of 11 this season, Dahl Tomasson will be looking for a bit more consistency from his forwards.
They're experiencing a relativley poor spell of form on the road, having lost 4 of their last 6 away games despite notching up a couple of wins.
Last time they met both teams got on the scoresheet, but the match ended in a 1-1 draw.
With at least 1 goal in each of their last 10 away matches against Norwich in the league, Rovers have built a decent scoring record that they will be keen to extend.
In the league, Norwich has had a good run of results against Blackburn, being unbeaten in their last 8 meetings.
Norwich manager Dean Smith has some team selection issues to consider ahead of this match. Sam Byram (Hamstring), Jonathan Rowe (Ankle), Josh Sargent (Ankle) and Jacob Sørensen (Ankle) are all currently out of contention for this game.
With only Sam Barnes (Knee) and Harry Pickering (Illness) the main fitness concerns ahead of this fixture, Jon Dahl Tomasson will be happy to have an otherwise healthy squad to pick from.
Norwich City Playing at home | Blackburn Rovers Playing away from home | |
|---|---|---|
| 1.6 | Goals scored | 0.6 |
| 1.1 | Goals conceded | 1.4 |
| 29' | Time first goal scored | 19' |
| 51' | Time first goal conceded | 49' |
| 1.4 | Yellow cards | 2.2 |
| 0.1 | Red cards | 0.1 |
| 4.5 | Subs used | 3.7 |
| 3-0 | Biggest victory | 3-0 |
| 3-2 | Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
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