Championship · Matchday 9 Match report

Swansea City 2-1 Norwich City: Result, Match Stats and Our Prediction

Swansea City

2-1Full time

Norwich City

Saturday 10 October 2026, 11:30 UTC Swansea.com Stadium, Swansea

Our picks against the result

9 of 12 right

Result Swansea City win40% 2-1
Double chance Swansea City or Norwich City (12)73% 2-1
Goals over/under 2.5 Over 2.555% 3 goals
More corners Swansea City52% Swansea City (3-2)
Yellow cards Around average 0 yellow cards · league 3.7
Yellow cards 0 yellow cards 2.5 Over68% 3.5 Under53% 4.5 Under72%
Corners Below average 5 corners · league 10.6
Corners 5 corners 8.5 Over60% 9.5 Under51% 10.5 Under62%

Match stats

Swansea City Norwich City

2 Goals 1
0 Yellow cards 0
0 Red cards 0
3 Corners 2

Goals, yellow and red cards and corners of each club.

Before kick-off

What this page showed before the match: our reasons, form, ratings and records as they were then.

Match summary

Swansea City vs Norwich City opens Matchday 9 in the Championship on Saturday 10 October 2026, and our model calls a home win, with either side to win and no draw for the double chance.

Why this pick?

Our model leans on home advantage at the Swansea.com Stadium as the main reason to side with Swansea City, and their attacking output over the last five matches has been about par for the division. The strongest counterweight is that the long-run, xG-based strength rating puts them only slightly ahead of Norwich City and below the Championship's average, so their place at the top of the table overstates the gap. What swings it back is a Norwich side that has shipped 17 goals in eight league games, and Swansea's own form. The call is narrow.

Form guide

Swansea City

W 2-1 at Lincoln City (A) Championship · 19 Sep
W 3-1 vs Burnley (H) Championship · 12 Sep
L 1-3 at Southampton (A) Championship · 8 Sep
D 0-0 vs Wrexham (H) Championship · 5 Sep
W 2-0 vs Watford (H) Championship · 1 Sep

Norwich City

L 3-4 vs Bolton Wanderers (H) Championship · 20 Sep
L 0-5 at Manchester City (A) EFL Cup · 17 Sep
L 3-4 at Middlesbrough (A) Championship · 12 Sep
W 2-1 vs Birmingham City (H) Championship · 9 Sep
W 3-1 at Sheffield United (A) Championship · 5 Sep

Last five competitive matches before kick-off, all competitions, results after 90 minutes.

Attack and defence ratings

Swansea CityNorwich City

Attack 57 78 1.6 goals per match this season2.0 goals per match this season

Defence 70 22 0.8 conceded per match this season2.1 conceded per match this season

0 to 100 against this season's Championship clubs (100 = best). The rating is our model's long-run strength before this match: it uses the last three years and counts recent matches most, so a few results do not move it at once. Under each rating: this season's actual goals per match.