In a weekend match on Saturday Feb 4th, in week 30, Norwich City plays host to Burnley in a meeting of these two Championship teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 7 degrees, which will make playing unpleasant. 7th placed Norwich City is fresh off their 4-2 win against Coventry City. Michael Rose scored the first goal for Norwich City on an own goal in the 6th minute, then Onel Hernández added another in the 10th minute on a feed from Kieran Dowell. Norwich City is looking for direction having 4 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches, while 1st placed Burnley is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Ipswich Town. Neither Ipswich Town nor Burnley could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 8 and 11 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. Burnley is on a hot streak lately, having won 9 of their last 10.
In their last match together, Burnley was victorious by a score of 1 to 0. Jay Rodriguez struck first for Burnley in the 82nd minute on a penalty shot, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Norwich City couldn’t manage to score, and Burnley took the shutout win.
Burnley is lucky enough to have a few offensive weapons, with Ian Maatsen and Anass Zaroury each having 2 goals in their last 5. Kieran Dowell has been the most prolific scorer on Norwich City in the last 5 matches with three goals.