Norwich City vs Swansea City - prediction, team news, lineups

Norwich City volition invited Swansea City to Carrow Road for their last location crippled of the 2025-26 Championship season. 

The hosts caput into Saturday’s fixture in ninth spot, portion the Swans are 4 points further backmost successful 10th position.

Match preview

Philippe Clement has overseen Norwich's singular emergence up the league since taking implicit the reins from Liam Manning successful December.

Clement, who assumed power erstwhile Norwich were 4 points adrift from safety, has led the nine up to ninth spot with 17 wins and 4 draws from 29 Championship matches (L8).

Norwich person taken maximum points from their past 2 outings, moving retired 4-2 winners distant to Bristol City earlier claiming a 2-1 victory astatine location to Derby County successful midweek, acknowledgment to goals from Mohamed Toure and Liam Gibbs.

As a effect of those back-to-back victories, the Canaries inactive person a mathematical accidental of reaching the playoffs, with six points seperating them from sixth-placed Wrexham with 2 games to play.

They are besides six points down Hull City successful seventh presumption and 2 points adrift of eighth-placed Derby County, truthful they would request to triumph their last 2 matches and respective different results to spell successful their favour to snatch a playoff spot successful the astir melodramatic of fashion. 

Norwich person won conscionable 1 of their erstwhile six meetings with Swansea, though their lone occurrence successful that play came by a resounding 5-1 scoreline successful past season's gathering astatine Carrow Road. 

Swansea, meanwhile, are retired of playoff contention and are simply playing for presumption aft winning 17, drafting 9 and losing 18 of their 44 league matches this season.

The Swans person won 2 of their past 3 matches to boost their chances of securing back-to-back top-half finishes.

After winning 1-0 distant astatine Leicester City, Vitor Matos's broadside fell to a 2-1 decision astatine location to promotion hopefuls Southampton, earlier they bounced backmost with a constrictive triumph implicit Queens Park Rangers connected Tuesday.

Ronald and the Championship's starring scorer, Zan Vipotnik, grabbed a extremity apiece in a 2-1 success astatine Loftus Road arsenic Swansea clinched back-to-back distant league wins for the archetypal clip since April 2025. 

They volition present beryllium looking to assertion 3 consecutive Championship distant victories for the archetypal clip since beating Millwall, Plymouth Argyle and Blackburn Rovers successful September/October 2023. 

A triumph would spot the Swans implicit a league treble implicit Norwich aft picking up a 2-1 triumph successful October's reverse fixture, acknowledgment to a Vipotnik brace. 

Norwich City Championship form:

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Swansea City Championship form:

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Team News

Norwich are expected to beryllium without Ben Chrisene, Gabriel Forysth, Lucien Mahovo, Matej Jurasek, Papa Amadou Diallo, Mirko Topic, Jovon Makama and Ante Crnac. 

Oscar Schwartau and Ali Ahmed are improbable to diagnostic aft missing the midweek triumph implicit Derby. 

Ruairi McConville volition anticipation to retrieve successful clip aft being forced to propulsion retired of Tuesday’s pre-match warm-up owed to illness.

As for the visitors, they stay without the injured trio of Josh Key, Ishe Samuels-Smith and Ethan Galbraith. 

Zeidane Inoussa is inactive struggling with insignificant backmost discomfort and is improbable to marque the squad for Saturday’s fixture.

Mark Stamenic, Eom Ji-sung and Vipotnik could travel backmost into the broadside aft settling for substitute roles successful Tuesday’s triumph implicit QPR.

Norwich City imaginable starting lineup:

Kovacevic; Stacey, Darling, Cordoba, Fisher; Mattsson, McLean; Forson, Maghoma, Gibbs; Toure

Swansea City imaginable starting lineup:

Vigouroux; Parker, Cabango, Burgess, Tymon; Fulton, Stamenic; Ronald, Widell, Eom; Vipotnik

We say: Norwich City 2-1 Swansea City

With Norwich inactive mathematically successful the top-six race, they volition person an other inducement to spell retired and assertion each 3 points connected Saturday, and we deliberation they volition emergence to the situation by edging retired Swansea by a constrictive scoreline. 

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