Norwich City and Aston Villa are set to trade tackles this week at the Carrow Road Stadium in their 17th fixture of the English Premier League. The fascinating showdown schedules for 14th December 2021 at 22:45 EAT.
Dean Smith oversaw an immediate upturn in fortunes following his appointment, but back-to-back defeats have seen Norwich plummet to the bottom of the rankings once again, with just 10 points to their name after 16 league games.
Norwich City will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 0-1 Premier League defeat in their last game in the hands of Manchester United. In that match, Norwich City had 47% possession, 11 shots with five of them on target. Manchester United got 13 shots with five of them on target and a goal by Cristiano Ronaldo (75′).
Steven Gerrard has taken the reins at Villa Park since Smith’s departure and has turned the form around at his new club. He lost on his return to Anfield at the weekend but has won three of his five games in charge, ending the run of five straight defeats that caused Smith’s sacking. The turnaround sees the visitors in the 13th place with 19 points in the standings.
Aston Villa will be looking to bounce back from the 1-0 Premier League loss to Liverpool in their previous outing. In that game, Aston Villa had 37% possession, four shots with none of them on target. Liverpool got 20 shots with five of them on target and a goal scored by Mohamed Salah (67′).
Four of the last five times Norwich and Aston Villa faced each other the matches ended with both of them scoring goals and the goal were more than three in all the instances. Also, ten out of 16 matches for Aston Villa ended with goals over 2.5 same a Norwich’s who have had more than 2.5 goals scored in half of their fixtures this season.
Norwich City vs Aston Villa head to head
Aston Villas is the dominant side in the head to head meeting between these two sides having won in12 matches out the 23 played since 1993. Norwich City has six wins win five matched played out draws.
- Aston Villa 1-0 Norwich 26/12/19
- Norwich 1-5 Aston Villa 05/10/19
- Aston Villa 1-2 Norwich 05/05/19
- Norwich 2-1 Aston Villa 23/10/18
- Norwich 3-1 Aston Villa 07/04/18
Home
- Norwich 0-1 Man Utd
- Tottenham 3-0 Norwich
- Newcastle 1-1 Norwich
- Norwich 0-0 Wolverhampton
- Norwich 2-1 Southampton
Away
- Liverpool 1-0 Aston Villa
- Aston Villa2-1 Leicester
- Aston Villa 1-2 Man City
- Crystal Palace 1-2 Aston Villa
- Aston Villa 2-0 Brighton
Norwich City team news
Coach Smith is hopeful that Mathias Normann and Ben Gibson could return in midweek, but Christoph Zimmermann, Andrew Omobamidele and Milot Rashica are all set to remain sidelined.
Aston Villa team news
The Lions are grateful to have no injury or suspensions concern ahead of this fixture.
Prediction and odds
Victories against Brighton, Crystal Palace and Leicester suggest that Villa is capable of snatching all the three points from the underperforming Norwich City.
- Aston Villa Win
- Draw
- Both teams to Score
