Norwich City and Brentford are going to clash on Saturday the 5th of March at 3:00 pm in the 28th week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in Norwich at the Carrow Road. The chosen referee is Anthony Taylor.
Norwich City occupies the 20th position in the table with 17 points. It comes from a 2-0 loss against Southampton in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 4 times, draw 5 times, and lost 16 times.
Brentford occupies the 15th place in the standings with 24 points. It comes from a 0-2 loss against Newcastle United in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 6 times, draw 5 times, and lost 15 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Norwich City
Norwich City has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (9 times or 36.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (9 times), 4-4-2 (4 times), 4-2-3-1 (4 times), 5-3-2 (4 times), 4-1-4-1 (3 times) and 3-5-2 (once).
Dean Smith is expected to play against Brentford with the following players: A. Gunn, G. Hanley, B. Gibson, K. McLean, B. Gilmour, M. Antonsen Normann, M. Rashica, J. Sargent and T. Pukki.
Granting that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Norwich City would be 27.00.
There are doubts about the presence of B. Williams and M. Aarons.
Dean Smith will probably not be able to employ O. Kabak and P. Płacheta because of injury.
A. Omobamidele and A. Idah will definitely miss the match.
Brentford
Brentford has mostly adopted the 3-5-2 line-up most used during the season (23 times or 88.46%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (23 times), 4-3-3 (once), 3-4-3 (once) and 3-4-1-2 (once).
Thomas Frank is expected to play against Norwich City with the following players: D. Raya Martin, E. Pinnock, K. Vassbakk Ajer, P. Jansson, R. Henry, C. Nørgaard, V. Janelt, M. Jensen, S. Canós Tenes, I. Toney and B. Mbeumo.
Granting that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Brentford would be 26.18.
Thomas Frank will probably not be able to employ T. Fosu because of injury.
Thomas Frank will not be able to have the presence of P. Dasilva who is suspended.