PREMIER LEAGUE FRIDAY: We preview Friday’s Premier League game between NORWICH v LEICESTER with a recommended BETDAQ bet and extended match stats.
NORWICH V LEICESTER
8pm There’s a lot going on this weekend! We have the League Cup Final, Premier League and an El Clasico. We kick off the weekend action on Friday night with Norwich hosting Leicester. Norwich lost 3-0 last weekend to Wolves, however nobody went away from them with losses for the other sides at the bottom. They remain six points adrift from 19th and seven from safety. Simple fact is, they need to start winning and fast.
The match odds at the time of writing currently trade; Norwich 4.7, Leicester 1.78 and the draw is 4.3. Leicester lost last weekend too, losing 1-0 at home to Manchester City. That match has settled who will finish second this season, and although Leicester have come up short against Liverpool and Manchester City – they are still having an excellent season.
Norwich managed to shock Manchester City here early in the season, but we don’t expect any shocks tonight. The Leicester win looks massive at 1.78 – Norwich have been very poor lately and although Leicester’s confidence hasn’t been the same since losing to Liverpool and Manchester City close to Christmas, they are still easily good enough to beat this Norwich side.
Norwich have improved at home in recent games, but prior to the last three they had conceded two or more in the nine previous. Leicester need a confidence boost and Norwich are just the side to hand it to them. As we have seen with the likes of Manchester United this season; they can struggle but against the teams towards the bottom they can score goals. We expect a smooth Leicester win and the 1.78 is a great bet to kick start the weekend.
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MATCH STATS
- Norwich are winless in their last three league meetings with Leicester (D1 L2), losing 1-2 the last time they hosted the Foxes in October 2015.
- Leicester’s last Premier League defeat against Norwich was back in November 1994 (1-2), winning three and drawing one of their four such meetings since.
- This is just Norwich’s fourth Premier League game to take place on a Friday – they’ve lost each of the previous three by an aggregate score of 2-11 (1-5 vs Tottenham in April 1993, 1-4 vs Liverpool in August 2019 and 0-2 vs Watford in November 2019).
- Norwich have won just one of their last 14 Premier League games (D5 L8) and have failed to score in each of their last three. Indeed, Norwich’s last two goals have been penalties, with the Canaries not scoring from open play since the 4th minute of their match against Crystal Palace on New Year’s Day.
- Leicester have failed to score in their last two Premier League games – they’d only failed to score in two of their previous 24 in the competition, netting 54 goals in that run.
- After a run of nine consecutive Premier League home games in which they conceded at least two goals, Norwich have shipped just twice across their last three at Carrow Road (W1 D1 L1).
- Leicester have won just one of their last six Premier League games (D2 L3), beating West Ham 4-1 in January. Indeed, 43% of the Foxes league defeats this season have come in these six matches (3/7).
- Norwich have lost all 15 of their Premier League games this season in which they’ve conceded the first goal, the worst such record in the division this term.
- Norwich have scored just 24 goals from 312 shots in the Premier League this season, giving them the lowest conversion rate in the competition this term (7.7%). Meanwhile, only Liverpool have a higher conversion rate than Leicester (14.6%).
- Having scored 17 goals in his first 18 Premier League games this season, Leicester’s Jamie Vardy is without a goal in his last seven games in the competition.
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