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EPL: What the stats say ahead of Norwich v Newcastle

By Our Reporter On Apr 23, 2022 0

Norwich are unbeaten in their last four Premier League games against Newcastle (W2 D2), having been winless in six against them previously (D2 L4).

Having won their first away Premier League game against Norwich 2-1 in January 1994, Newcastle are winless in their last seven top-flight visits to Carrow Road (D2 L5).

All five of Norwich’s Premier League wins against Newcastle have come in home games – no side have they beaten more at Carrow Road in the competition than the Magpies (also 5 vs Southampton).

Norwich are looking to win consecutive Premier League home games for the first time since August 2019, the second game of which was against Newcastle. They last won back-to-back Premier League games at Carrow Road within the same season in January 2016.

Newcastle have lost each of their last three Premier League away games, last losing more consecutively in January 2021 (5). 10 of the Magpies’ 13 points on the road this season came in a four-game spell between January and March (W3 D1).

Norwich have scored twice in their last two Premier League games, beating Burnley 2-0 and losing 3-2 against Manchester United. The Canaries haven’t scored at least twice in three consecutive Premier League games since May/August 2013.

Norwich have had four Premier League hat-tricks scored against them this season, with these being netted by Mason Mount, Raheem Sterling, Ivan Toney and Cristiano Ronaldo. No team has ever conceded five hat-tricks in a single Premier League campaign before.

This will be Norwich’s 54th Premier League game when starting the day bottom of the table, with only five teams ever playing more. 81% of these matches will have been over the Canaries’ two previous campaigns (44/54) – 20 in 2019-20 and 24 this season.

Over Norwich’s last two campaigns in the Premier League, Teemu Pukki has scored all four of their goals against Newcastle in the competition, with the Finnish striker netting a hat-trick the last time the sides met at Carrow Road (August 2019).

With his goal against Manchester United last time out, Teemu Pukki became the first Norwich player to score 10+ goals in more than one Premier League season (11 in 2019-20, 10 this term). Overall, only Chris Sutton (33) and Grant Holt (23) have scored more Premier League goals for Norwich than Pukki (21).