Big Baggies test for Canaries as the real football returns.
City look to avoid a seventh straight game without a win as they travel to the Hawthorns to take on sixth-placed West Bromwich Albion in their first game back in the Sky Bet Championship after the international break.
City look to avoid a seventh straight game without a win as they travel to the Hawthorns to take on sixth-placed West Bromwich Albion in their first game back in the Sky Bet Championship after the international break.
After falling to a 2-0 defeat to Bristol City 14 days ago, the Canaries look to win their first game since 4th October and potentially go 11th in the table as they currently sit on 18 points out of a possible 45 in the Championship. Carlos Corberan’s side have only won one of their last seven matches, their most recent game being that sole victory – an impressive 2-1 win over Hull City at the KCOM Stadium.
The Black Country club are currently in the playoff places, seven points ahead of Norwich and six points shy of the automatic promotion places.
The Canaries have lost three in a row in the league and drew their three matches prior against Stoke City, Preston North End, and Middlesborough who they arguably would have been expected to beat by some punters.
Like West Brom, the Canaries have just one win in their last seven. However, the key difference is that their opponents at the weekend have avoided defeat in all of those games – drawing six of them.
But this fixture is one where Norwich don’t have many fond memories since their first meeting with Albion back in 1907, having only been victorious in 22 of the 68 games between the two. They have also only won once in the last six meetings between the two sides – winning 2-0 at Carrow Road in January.
Their last three visits to the Hawthorns have all been lacklustre – losing twice and drawing the other. To find the last time the Canaries won away at West Brom, you have to go back to March 2016 when both teams were in the Premier League – Robbie Brady scoring the only goal of the game in a 1-0 win for Norwich.
In the dugout for Albion is, of course, a fine manager in Corberan, who has been a relatively successful appointment in his spell as manager of West Brom.
Since he was brought in, in October of 2022, he has managed 99 games, won 44, drawn 25, and lost 30. His tenure also included getting Albion into the play-off semi-final last season after finishing fifth in the league, but his side lost to Southampton, who eventually won the final against Leeds United, who beat Norwich in the other semi-final.
But he did lose the last time his side met City in the Championship Will that again be the case come Saturday evening.
