Preston North End welcome Norwich City on 2025-12-20 at 12:30 GMT in week 22 of the 2025-2026 Championship at Deepdale.
With the data available to us, P. Heckingbottom and P. Clement have not met as managers before.
Preston North End currently rank 3rd (with 35 pts), versus Norwich City at 23rd on 17 pts.
Preston North End have 6 players sidelined: R. Brady (Calf Injury), T. Carroll (Inactive), L. Gibson (Injury), J. Lewis (Injury), A. McCann (Broken Hand), M. Osmajic (Suspended) but Norwich City face 7 absences: A. Crnac (Knee Injury), P. A. Diallo (Muscle Injury), G. Forsyth (Knee Injury), L. Mahovo (Muscle Injury), J. Sargent (Injury), J. Schlupp (Hamstring Injury), M. Topic (Knee Injury).
Our model projects Preston North End in a 3-defender setup (3-4-1-2), with Norwich City anticipated to match that in 4-2-3-1.
Both sides left it all on the pitch: Preston North End won 2-1 against Oxford United, and Norwich City secured a victory 2-1 over Southampton.
Preston North End (2-3-0) and Norwich City (2-2-1) head into this in winning moods from their past 5 matches.
Dominance for Preston North End: across 26 clashes, they've won 9 games and only lost 8 games to Norwich City, with 9 stalemates.
We're forecasting a stalemate, 1-1, as Preston North End's 1.36 goals/game at home balance out Norwich City's 1.10 away scoring.
Preston is going head to head with Norwich on 20/12/2025 12:30 GMT at Deepdale for the England Championship. You can view the match information, lineups, odds, live score, result, goalscorers, cards, substitutions, standings, recent form, player ratings, injuries, tv channels, our users most predicted scores and Preston v Norwich H2H statistics!