Fulham – Norwich City

The visitors will put in a decent performance against a Premier League side

One of the many matches in London within the 1/16 finals of the English League Cup will be the confrontation between Fulham and Norwich City. Both clubs over the past ten years have repeatedly "travelled" between the Premier League and the Championship. The upcoming match caught the hosts as representatives of the elite division, the guests - the second in status. Fulham in the current draw of the English League Cup started with the centre match of stage 1/32 of the final, where his opponent was Tottenham. In a head-to-head encounter, the London teams exchanged goals, and in the penalty shootout Davinson Sanchez's miss brought victory to the visitors. Norwich City's journey in the tournament began with the first round, in which the Canaries also played in London and scored the only goal of the match in 90+9 minutes. At the last stage of the League Cup, the team also played away and defeated Bristol City 1-0. In the last draw of the tournament, Fulham and Norwich City went out in the first matches, losing respectively to Crawley Town and Bournemouth. In the upcoming meeting bookmakers chose the home team as favourites, offering odds of 1.56 on their victory. Fulham at the end of the last championship took a firm place in the middle of the standings. In the new draw of the Premier League "cottagers" correspond to the same status. In two of the six rounds of London club lost in one goal, missing from Manchester City and Brentford a total of eight goals. However, the other four matches brought the "cottagers" eight points and allow them to sit in eleventh position. In the off-season Fulham left Aleksandar Mitrovic, who went to earn money in a known direction. Full-fledged Serbian could not be replaced, so the attack is the weak point of the London team. Norwich City started the regular season in the Championship in the status of one of the contenders for promotion and in the opening rounds met expectations. "Turmoil" in the team began in the second half of September. If the defeat to Leicester can still be logically explained, then the disgraceful 2:6 defeat to Plymouth should push the visitors to rehabilitate themselves in a match with a serious opponent. We bet that the visitors will play honourably in London.