PREVIEW: NORWICH CITY V LEEDS UNITED

PREVIEW: NORWICH CITY V LEEDS UNITED

We analyse Saturday's fixture.

 

Head coach/manager

Norwich City: Daniel Farke

Leeds United: Marcelo Bielsa

 

League position

Norwich City: 15th

Leeds United: 2nd

 

Recent form

Norwich City: DLWLW

Leeds United: WWWWD

 

Top scorer

Norwich City: Teemu Pukki (3)

Leeds United: Kemar Roofe (4)

 

Head to head

Norwich City wins: 22

Draws: 16

Leeds United wins: 19

 

Last time at Carrow Road

Saturday 28th April 2018

Sky Bet Championship


Norwich City 2 (Hoolahan 45, Murphy 69) 

Leeds United 1 (Phillips 39)

 

Norwich: Gunn, Reed, Vrancic, Oliveira (Srbeny 83), Leitner, Murphy, Hoolahan (Trybull 84), Klose, Maddison (Hernandez 87), Lewis, Hanley.  Subs not used: McGovern, Pinto, Husband, Zimmerman.

Leeds: Peacock-Farrell, Pennington, Cooper, Janssson, Pearce (Lasogga 83), Vieira (Forshaw 74), Phillips, Alioski (Grot 70), Hernandez, Saiz, Roofe.  Subs not used: Lonergan, Anita, O’Connor, Ekuban.

 

Referee: J. Brooks

Booked: Hanley (Norwich), Pennington (Leeds)

Attendance: 26,869 (2,131 Leeds)

 

Team news

Liam Cooper has been ruled out with a hamstring injury and will be missing along with Adam Forshaw.  Pontus Jansson and Stuart Dallas could both return for the Whites.  Matt Jarvis, Kenny McLean, Carlton Morris are long term absentees for Norwich.

 

The key battle

Tim Krul v Kemar Roofe

Forward Roofe has been in fine form for Leeds with four goals in his last three Championship matches.  Once again he will be looking to get on the score sheet at Carrow Road, but Canaries experienced stopper Krul will be trying to prevent him from adding to his tally.

 

Betting odds with Ladbrokes

Norwich City: 17/10

Draw: 12/5

Leeds United: 6/4 

(Odds correct at time of article published)

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LUTV

Fans in selected territories can watch Saturday's game with Norwich live on LUTV.  Fans in the UK and worldwide can listen to live commentary with club legend Eddie Gray for just 99p. Click here for full information.

 

 

 

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