Norwich – Wigan SOCCER PICKS
Norwich City and Wigan Athletic meet at Carrow Road, in a match for the 10th round of the Championship. The history of recent direct matches is favorable to the home team, which records 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in the last 4 matches. The last direct confrontation between these two teams, on 07-02-2017, ended with a draw by (2-2). Despite being a match between 11 th and 5 th of the table, it is actually a match between the 15 th best team in home matches and the 17 th best in away matches.
Norwich City:
The home team is currently in the 11 th position of the league, with 14 points won, after 4 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. In the penultimate match, they won in an away match against Reading, by (1-2). In the last match, they won in an away match against Queens Park Rangers, by (0-1). This is a team that usually gets more positive results in away matches than at home, since they have won 8 points in away matches and 6 at their stadium, with 7 goals scored and 6 conceded in away matches, against 6 goals scored and 7 conceded at home. In the last match they played, for the League Cup, they won against Wycombe Wanderers by (3-4). In the last 4 home league matches Norwich City has a record of 2 wins and 2 losses, so they have won 6 points out of 12 possible. Their attack has scored regularly, since they have scored goals in 8 of the last 9 matches for this competition. In 9 matches in this tournament, they suffered the first goal 4 times and never got the comeback. In the last 6 home matches for all competitions there is 1 period that stands out: they have scored 5 of their 9 goals between minutes (76′-90 ‘).
Norwich enter this game motivated, after a triumph outsider, by 3-4, in the visit to the land of Waycombe, to count for the English League Cup: Rhodes scored a hattrick and Trybull scored the third goal of his team . The local team chooses to act in a traditional 4-3-3, in which the three most advanced players are: Cantwell, Pukki and Buendía. Coach Daniel Farke must have all players available for this day.
Wigan Athletic:
After 5 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses, the away team is currently in the 5 th position, with 16 points won. In the last match, they have won at home against Bristol City by (1-0), after in the previous match they have won at home, against Hull City, by (2-1). This is a team that usually makes good use of the home advantage, since they have won 3 points in away matches and 13 at their stadium, with 5 goals scored and 6 conceded at home, against 9 goals scored and 5 conceded at home. In the last away game in this competition, they lost by (2-0) against Brentford. In the last 4 away league matches Wigan Athletic has a record of 1 win and 3 losses, so they have won 3 points out of 12 possible. Their attack has scored regularly, since they have scored goals in 7 of the last 9 matches for this competition.
Wigan enter this motivated game, after a 1-0 home win at the Bristol reception: Powell, at minute 52, scored the only goal of the game. The visiting team usually acts in a 4-3-3, giving more importance to a slow style of play, possession of the ball, progressing on the ground, mainly, through the central corridor. The three arrows pointing to the goal of the rival will be Windass, Garner and Jacobs, being that in the middle zone of the terrain it is possible that they act Morsy, Powell and Evans. One of the great gaps of the visitor team is the completion of the opportunities of danger that he manages to create.
