Norwich City vs Southampton - prediction, team news, lineups

Norwich  City volition beryllium aiming to extremity a four-game losing tally successful each competitons erstwhile they instrumentality connected Southampton successful Wednesday's Championship clash astatine Carrow Road.

The Saints, meanwhile, are looking to assertion a 2nd consecutive triumph aft getting the amended of section rivals Portsmouth astatine the weekend. 

Match preview

After being appointed successful November 2025, Philippe Clement led his broadside from information with a 56-point instrumentality from 31 games to execute a ninth-place finish.

Given their awesome signifier nether the Belgian past term, determination were precocious hopes that Norwich would equine a superior playoff bid this season, but those aspirations person been dented by a mediocre commencement to the play that has seen them suffer six of their archetypal 9 league matches.

In fact, the Canaries person mislaid each of their past 4 games successful each competitions, conceding astatine slightest 4 goals successful 3 of those contests.

They suffered 4-3 defeats to Middlesbrough and Bolton Wanderers, either broadside of a 5-0 EFL Cup nonaccomplishment to Manchester City, earlier they returned from the planetary model with an unsuccessful distant travel to Swansea. 

Jacob Wright's 2nd extremity of the play gave Norwich a slender half-time pb successful South Wales, but 2 Swansea goals wrong 15 minutes of the restart near the Canaries with thing to amusement for their efforts, leaving them successful 18th spot successful the Championship table and 2 points supra the driblet zone. 

Norwich, who person won 2 of their past 3 location games, volition beryllium looking to assertion a 2nd consecutive triumph against Southampton astatine Carrow Road aft signaling a 2-1 occurrence successful this fixture past season.

Southampton volition beryllium successful precocious spirits aft clinching 3 wins successful their erstwhile 4 matches, including a hard-fought 1-0 triumph successful Sunday's southbound seashore derby against Portsmouth.

James Bree enactment the Saints up successful the 20th minute, earlier Cameron Bragg was dismissed for 2 bookable offences successful the closing stages of the archetypal period.

Despite being near a antheral light, Southampton prevented their arch-rivals from registering a changeable connected people successful the 2nd play arsenic they claimed their archetypal league triumph implicit Portsmouth since November 2004.

If it were not for their four-point deduction for the Spygate Scandal, Tonda Eckert's broadside would person finished the play successful 3rd position, but arsenic it is, they caput into the midweek circular of fixtures successful 11th spot and 1 constituent adrift from the apical eight. 

While they person won each 4 location games, Southampton caput to Carrow Road arsenic 1 of 5 teams yet to triumph a Championship distant crippled this season, having mustered conscionable 2 points from their 4 roadworthy trips.

The Saints person scored precisely 1 extremity successful each of those 4 games, a important opposition to the 16 goals they person racked up crossed their 5 league matches astatine St Mary's this term.

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Team News

Norwich guardant Mohamed Toure volition beryllium retired until January aft undergoing country connected a enarthrosis wounded helium suffered successful past month's decision to Bolton.

The Australia planetary is joined connected the sidelines by Lucien Mahovo, Kenny McLean, Mirko Topic, Ali Ahmed and Papa Amadou Diallo.

Anthony Musaba and Jovon Makama could travel into the broadside if Clement opts to change his attacking options for Wednesday's fixture. 

As for the visitors, Eckert volition beryllium forced into 1 change, with Bragg acceptable to service a one-match prohibition pursuing his dismissal successful Sunday’s derby. 

The 21-year-old’s lack could unfastened the doorway for Kuryu Mastuki to instrumentality to the starting lineup aft settling for a substitute relation astatine the weekend.

The Championship’s starring scorer Cyle Larin volition beryllium looking to adhd to his seven-goal tally erstwhile helium leads the enactment astatine Carrow Road.

Norwich City imaginable starting lineup:

Kovacevic; Stacey, McConville, Cordoba, Yongwa; Wright, Mattsson; Brooks, Schwartau, Musaba; Makama

Southampton imaginable starting lineup:

Peretz; Bree, Stephens, Schlotterbeck, Manning; Downes, Ward-Prowse; Matsuki, Azaz, Scienza, Larin

We say: Norwich City 1-2 Southampton

Southampton whitethorn beryllium winless connected the roadworthy this season, but they volition beryllium afloat of assurance aft claiming derby bragging rights connected Sunday, and with Norwich reeling from a 3rd consecutive league defeats, we deliberation the visitors volition bash capable to prime up a constrictive victory

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