📊 Form Guide

Oxford United

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Oxford United go into this fixture after a 0-0 Championship drawn game versus Coventry City.

In that game, Oxford United had 26% possession and 4 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. For their opponents, Coventry City had 23 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target.

Oxford United have struggled with their forward play in more recent games. Their ‘goals for’ figure stands at just 3 against opposition teams during the course of their last 6 outings. In those meetings, Oxford United have also seen the number of goals scored against them come to 6. Putting that to one side, we must now wait to see if that pattern might be replicated here in this game.

Leading up to this clash, Oxford United:

• have not lost a league tie with Norwich City in their previous 3 matches.
• have not registered a win against Norwich City in their last 2 league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 4 matches in the league. That's never good.

Norwich City

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Norwich City head into the match following on from a 2-0 Championship win in the defeat of Blackburn Rovers in their last game.

In that game, Norwich City managed 56% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. For Norwich City, goals were scored by Anis Ben Slimane (73') and Mohamed Touré (78'). Blackburn Rovers got 6 shots on goal with 0 on target.

A succession of dependable performances from the Norwich City defenders has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 4 from their last 6 outings in total. Over that same period of time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 16.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings going back to 28/03/1998 tells us that Oxford United have won 3 of these & Norwich City 1, with the tally of drawn results standing at 2.

A sum of 18 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 11 for The U's and 7 coming from The Canaries. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.

The last league fixture featuring these sides was Championship match day 17 on 25/11/2025 which ended up with the score at Norwich City 1-1 Oxford United.

In that match, Norwich City managed 51% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The scorer was Jovon Makama (29').

Oxford United got 12 shots on goal with 4 on target. Filip Krastev (95') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Tom Reeves.

🧠 Prediction

When taking everything into account, Oxford United could well find it tough to score goals against this Norwich City team who we reckon will be able to grind out a win.

We therefore see a very competitive game with a 0-1 advantage for Norwich City at the end of the 90.

Looking forward to this.

Andre Moura, 19:14 10/02/2026