Preview: Norwich City vs. Millwall - prediction, team news, lineups

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Sports Mole previews Thursday's Championship clash betwixt Norwich City and Millwall, including predictions, squad quality and imaginable lineups.

Norwich City volition look to extremity a four-game winless tally erstwhile they invited Millwall to Carrow Road connected Boxing Day.

Meanwhile, the Lions volition beryllium hoping to assertion a 2nd consecutive triumph aft edging retired Blackburn Rovers successful their astir caller outing.

Match preview

Norwich City's Borja Sainz connected September 28, 2024 © Imago

Norwich are inactive searching for their archetypal triumph of December aft taking conscionable 1 constituent from 4 games since beating Luton Town astatine the extremity of November.

The Canaries followed that effect with a 3-0 nonaccomplishment to QPR and a goalless gully against Portsmouth, earlier they gave up a slender pb to autumn to a 2-1 decision successful their location gathering with Burnley.

They experienced a akin destiny successful their caller distant clash against Sunderland, losing 2-1 contempt taking the pb done Anis Ben Slimane's 21st-minute opener.

As a effect of their mediocre form, Norwich are sitting successful the bottom fractional of the table successful 13th presumption - 9 points distant from the apical six and 8 points supra the bottommost three.

Norwich volition present crook their absorption to consecutive location games against Millwall and QPR, with the Canaries looking to showcase their firepower aft scoring 26 goals successful their 10 location league matches astatine Carrow Road this play - a instrumentality that has lone been bettered by Leeds' 29-goal tally astatine Elland Road.

The Canaries tin besides instrumentality assurance from the information they person won 3 of their past 4 matches against Millwall, including a 3-1 triumph successful their astir caller location gathering successful August 2023.

Millwall guardant Femi Azeez celebrates scoring connected November 23, 2024 © Imago

David Livermore is preparing for his 2nd crippled arsenic Millwall's interim brag aft taking implicit the reins pursuing Neil Harris's departure earlier this month.

Harris near his presumption aft overseeing a six-game winless run, which was made up of 3 consecutive draws and 3 consecutive 1-0 defeats.

Millwall's winless tally looked acceptable to proceed successful Saturday's location clash with Blackburn Rovers until Mihailo Ivanovic netted a 96th-minute victor to snatch each 3 points and extremity their opponents' six-game winning streak.

After celebrating their archetypal triumph since November 6, Millwall are present sitting successful 10th spot successful the Championship table, with 7 points separating them from the apical six up of Thursday's distant gathering with Norwich City.

The Lions volition inactive beryllium looking to connection an betterment successful the last 3rd aft failing to people much than 1 extremity successful immoderate of their erstwhile 14 matches.

Having failed to triumph immoderate of their erstwhile 20 distant league meetings with Norwich (D7, L13), the visitors volition effort to bushed the Canaries successful an distant league lucifer for the archetypal clip since they recorded a 3-0 triumph backmost successful November 1968.

Norwich City Championship form:

Millwall Championship form:

Team News

Norwich Head Coach Johannes Hoff Thorup during the Pre-Season Friendly lucifer astatine Carrow Road connected August 3, 2024 © Imago

Norwich brag Jess Thorup is incapable to telephone upon their first-choice striker Josh Sargent, who has not played since the extremity of October owed to a groin injury.

The Canaries are besides without the services of Gabe Forsyth and Liam Gibbs owed to genu and hamstring problems respectively.

Kenny McLean volition service the last crippled of a four-match suspension, portion Jose Cordoba is banned for the Boxing Day clash aft helium was sent disconnected for 2 bookable offences against Sunderland.

As for the visitors, they are having to header without the injured 4th of Jake Cooper, Josh Coburn, Daniel Kelly and Calum Scanlon.

Defender Danny McNamara precocious joined the absentee database aft helium sat retired the 1-0 triumph implicit Blackburn with a genu injury.

Ivanovic is pushing to marque his 3rd Championship commencement of the play aft coming disconnected the seat to people the winning extremity astatine the weekend.

Norwich City imaginable starting lineup:
Gunn; Stacey, Duffy, Doyle, Chrisene; Marcondes, Nunez, Slimane; Hernandez, Sainz, Crnac

Millwall imaginable starting lineup:
Jensen; Leonard, Tanganga, Wallace, Bryan; Saville, Norre; Azeez, Esse, Emakhu; Ivanovic

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We say: Norwich City 2-1 Millwall

While Norwich are experiencing a hard tally of form, they thin to execute good successful location games with Millwall, and we deliberation they volition bash capable to assertion a constrictive triumph to widen their unbeaten grounds head-to-head location meetings to 21 matches.

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