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Swansea City
Form comparisonNorwich City
Where those opponents sat in the table: strong means they averaged roughly the top 40%, weak roughly the bottom 40%, mixed in between.
Opposition faced: Swansea City weak, Norwich City mixedThe form score weights every result and every goal by where the opponent sat in the table, so five wins over the bottom of the table score below five over the top.
- 10 Oct 2026Swansea2-1Norwich
- 25 Apr 2026Norwich1-1Swansea
- 25 Oct 2025Swansea2-1Norwich
- 25 Jan 2025Norwich5-1Swansea
- 14 Sept 2024Swansea1-0Norwich
- 10 Oct 2026vsNorwich2-1W
- 19 Sept 2026vsLincoln1-2W
- 12 Sept 2026vsBurnley3-1W
- 08 Sept 2026vsSouthampton3-1L
- 05 Sept 2026vsWrexham0-0D
- 10 Oct 2026vsSwansea2-1L
- 20 Sept 2026vsBolton3-4L
- 17 Sept 2026vsManchester City5-0L
- 12 Sept 2026vsMiddlesbrough4-3L
- 09 Sept 2026vsBirmingham2-1W
Swansea City vs Norwich City: form and season numbers
Swansea City take a form score of 6.1 out of 10 into this Championship fixture, against 3.2 for Norwich City. Swansea City have 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat in their last 5, while Norwich City have 1 win and 4 defeats in theirs. Across the season Swansea City average 1.5 goals scored and 0.8 conceded per game, Norwich City 1.8 and 2.3. Swansea City have kept a clean sheet in 40% of their matches this season, Norwich City in 0%. In their last 10 meetings Swansea City have won 6, drawn 2 and lost 2. Swansea City sit 1st on 20 points, Norwich City 17th on 9.
Form, head-to-head and season statistics are free to read. The model's predictions for this fixture are in the cards above.
Swansea City vs Norwich City prediction: leaders face leaky visitors
Swansea City sit top of the Championship on 17 points, and the gap to Norwich City down in 17th is stark: 8 points and 16 places separate them ahead of Saturday's kick-off. That table position is backed by a steady recent record, and Formatic's form reading gives Swansea City a wide advantage over opponents whose form band sits at poor. Few fixtures on the weekend card carry a clearer gulf on paper.
Swansea City have built their position on defensive solidity as much as goals. Across their last 10 they have won 6, drawn 2 and lost just 2, scoring 14 and conceding only 7, with clean sheets in 5 of those 10 outings. The recent sequence includes a 3-1 win at home to Burnley and a 2-0 home win over Watford, either side of a 1-3 defeat away to Southampton that stands out as the one real blemish. Two 0-0 draws, against Wrexham and Sheffield Utd, show a side capable of grinding out points even when the goals do not flow, and at 1.62 scored to 0.75 conceded per game in the league table, this is a team whose numbers justify top spot.
Norwich City's season reads very differently. Their league table line shows 3 wins from 8, 16 scored but 17 conceded, and a goal difference of -1, and the shape of their form matches that: across the last 10 matches they have won 4, lost 6, and failed to keep a single clean sheet. There have been goals, 18 scored in that span, including a 4-1 home win over Burnley and a 3-1 away win at Sheffield Utd, but the defensive concessions keep piling up, highlighted by a 3-4 home defeat to Bolton and a 3-4 loss away to Middlesbrough either side of a 0-5 League Cup hammering by Manchester City. A side conceding at 2.12 per game in the league and shipping goals in every one of its last 10 matches is a serious concern travelling into a fixture against the division's in-form leaders.
The head to head picture offers Norwich City some encouragement, since of the five itemised meetings Swansea City have won 2, Norwich City have won 1, and 2 have been drawn, with the most recent, in April 2026, finishing 1-1. That game, and the 2-2 draw from April 2024, show Norwich City have periodically troubled Swansea City even without matching their table position. Season-wide shot and possession numbers back the pattern too: Norwich City average more shots per game than Swansea City (13.5 to 11.8) but with a worse defensive record behind it, while Swansea City control more of the ball at 56.4 percent. With Swansea City's defensive solidity up against a Norwich City side that has not kept a clean sheet in 10 matches, this looks set up for the home side to assert control and for goals to arrive mainly at one end of the pitch.
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