2019-20 Premier League: Week 28 – Norwich vs Leicester

Norwich City welcome Leicester City to Carrow Road in Friday Night Football, as both teams look for a vital win at opposite ends of the table. 

A win will move the Canaries to within four points of safety, whilst Leicester can move to within four points of second-placed Manchester City with victory. 

 

Team news

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Norwich have no fresh injury concerns as Christoph Zimmerman remains sidelined with a hamstring injury. 

Sam Byram (thigh), Timm Klose and Onel Hernandez (both knee) are still ruled out. 

Leicester will have Hamza Choudhury available after the midfielder served an one match ban last weekend. 

Kelechi Iheanacho (head) and Wilfred Ndidi (knee) are also in contention to feature but Nampalys Mendy (knee) and Daniel Amartey (ankle) remain sidelined. 

 

Form

Norwich enter this match with just one point from their last four games (D1, L3), although, the Canaries have taken five points from their last four home matches (W1, D2, L1). 

Leicester saw a three match unbeaten run ended last weekend at home to Manchester City (W1, D2, L1), but have kept just one clean sheet in their last five away league trips. 

 

Stat Attack

• Norwich have won one of five previous Premier League meetings against Leicester (W1, D1, L3). 
• Both teams have scored in two of their last three Premier League meetings, with the exception being a 1-0 home win for the Foxes in February 2016. 
• Six of Leicester’s last starting eleven at Carrow Road in October 2015 have since left the club (Danny Simpson, Robert Huth, Jeffrey Schlupp, Danny Drinkwater, N’Golo Kante & Shinji Okazaki).
• Norwich are yet to receive a penalty against Leicester after five previous Premier League meetings.
• No Premier League goalkeeper has conceded more goals this season than Norwich’s Tim Krul, who has conceded 44 goals in 25 appearances. 

 

Prediction

Norwich seem to be a team who like their home comforts more than their away travels, because they tend to take the game to their opponents more at home than they do on the road as demonstrated by a brutal routing at Wolves last weekend. 

Leicester meanwhile seem to have hit a snag in term of performance which doesn’t seem to have shown any sign of lifting, although they do have a decent enough gap to the chasing gap to be fairly worried. 

I therefore am expecting a closely fought game here given that Norwich will view this as a winnable opportunity, whereas Leicester need a win to give them some momentum to take into the FA Cup on Wednesday so a draw wouldn’t be a bad result here.

Prediction: Norwich City 1-1 Leicester City

Result: Norwich 1-0 Leicester City