Millwall vs Norwich City - prediction, team news, lineups

The second circular of Championship fixtures gets underway with an aboriginal Saturday day kick-off arsenic Millwall welcome Norwich City to The Den.

Alex Neil's broadside began their Championship run successful awesome fashion, securing a 2-0 triumph implicit Bristol City, portion the Canaries suffered a disappointing 2-1 location decision to West Bromwich Albion.

Match preview

After signaling eighth-placed finishes either broadside of a 13th-placed decorativeness crossed the erstwhile 3 seasons, Millwall yet took the adjacent measurement past twelvemonth by securing a top-three decorativeness and earning a spot successful the Championship playoffs.

The Lions enjoyed an outstanding campaign, signaling 24 wins, 11 draws and conscionable 11 defeats to decorativeness with 83 points and comfortably unafraid their spot among the promotion contenders.

However, Neil's broadside were incapable to implicit the occupation successful the playoffs, suffering decision crossed 2 legs against Hull City, who yet secured promotion aft a arguable playoff final.

Millwall person strengthened their squad implicit the summer, with Belgian midfielder Mathis Servais arriving from Mechelen and guardant Tairyk Arconte joining from the French 2nd tier among their notable additions.

It was past season's club-record signing Josh Coburn, though, who made the biggest interaction connected the opening weekend, with the erstwhile Middlesbrough striker scoring doubly to occurrence the Lions to a 2-0 triumph implicit Bristol City astatine Ashton Gate.

That occurrence followed a low-scoring punishment shootout triumph implicit Queens Park Rangers successful the EFL Cup, and Neil volition present beryllium hoping his broadside tin physique connected their encouraging commencement arsenic they look to unafraid different playoff challenge.

As for visiting Norwich City, they entered the caller run with plentifulness of optimism aft finishing past play among the Championship's strongest sides.

The accomplishment of Philippe Clement successful November helped alteration their fortunes, with Norwich climbing from the relegation portion to ninth, portion lone 1 Championship broadside collected much points than the East Anglian nine during 2026. 

Their opening-day decision to West Bromwich Albion truthful came arsenic a large disappointment, peculiarly with the Baggies having finished conscionable a fewer points supra the relegation portion past season, though James Morrison's broadside besides ended the erstwhile run strongly.

The contention astatine Carrow Road remained level until the last 15 minutes, erstwhile a arguable extremity from Aune Heggebo and a superb solo effort from Jimmy-Jay Morgan enactment West Brom 2 goals ahead, with Mathias Kvistgaarden's 90th-minute onslaught proving small much than a consolation.

There were nevertheless positives for Norwich to instrumentality from the defeat, with the Canaries registering much than doubly arsenic galore shots arsenic their opponents and demonstrating the attacking menace that helped them enactment unneurotic respective lengthy unbeaten runs astir the crook of the year.

Norwich besides person caller occurrence successful this fixture to gully upon, having won 2-1 astatine The Den past season, though they volition beryllium looking to grounds successive distant league victories implicit Millwall for the archetypal clip since 1989.

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Team News

Despite starting the play with an awesome triumph astatine Bristol City, Neil volition beryllium forced into astatine slightest 1 alteration aft picking up injuries during the opening-day success.

Femi Azeez was withdrawn aft conscionable 29 minutes and is expected to miss Saturday's contest, with Kyrell Lisbie the apt campaigner to regenerate him.

Summer signing Mathis Servais has besides yet to marque his Millwall debut aft suffering a hamstring wounded during pre-season, with the midfielder expected to stay sidelined for the adjacent mates of weeks.

Forward Mihailo Ivanovic is besides inactive "quite a fewer weeks away" from returning, according to Neil.

As for Norwich, Clement has nary caller wounded concerns and could sanction an unchanged XI pursuing the decision to West Brom, though the Canaries brag whitethorn see making alterations aft the disappointing result.

Norwich volition proceed to beryllium without Mirko Topic and Anthony Musaba, who stay sidelined with semipermanent injuries.

Millwall imaginable starting lineup:

Jensen; Leonard, Taylor, Cooper, Sturge; Metcalfe, De Norre, Neghli; Lisbie, Coburn, Arconte

Norwich City imaginable starting lineup:

Kovacevic, Fisher, Darling, Cordoba, Chrisene; McLean, Mattsson; Brooks, B. Silmane, Maghoma; Toure

We say: Millwall 1-1 Norwich City

With some sides expected to situation towards the apical extremity of the Championship this season, Saturday's gathering should supply an aboriginal denotation of however they comparison with 1 another. 

Millwall's opening-day triumph gives them momentum heading into the contest, but Norwich showed capable attacking committedness contempt their decision to suggest they tin vie astatine The Den, and we expect the points to beryllium shared successful a intimately fought 1-1 draw.

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