Overview
Stoke City entered the match after losing all 3 of the first rounds. Last season, the team nicknamed Potters only ranked 17th, 8 points ahead of the relegation group. With the ambition to improve their performance, Stoke is quite active in the summer transfer market when bringing in a series of new players.
Milan Smit, Djibril Soumare, Josh Griffiths, Ethan Galbraith, Svante Ingelsson, Luke Graham, George Morrison, Jack Newall, George Hirst and Ben Johnson have successively joined the team. However, major personnel changes have not brought the expected results.
Stoke started the season with a 1-2 defeat to Swansea City, then lost to Southampton 1-3. In the away match against Wolves, they continued to receive a 1-4 defeat.
Head-to-head history is also not on Stoke's side. They have only beaten Norwich once in their last 11 encounters in all competitions.
On the other side, Norwich entered the match with a different mentality after winning their first victory in the Championship this season.
At Carrow Road, Norwich defeated Burnley 4-1 with two doubles from Mo Toure and Andre Brooks. This result helped them relieve some pressure after two consecutive defeats against West Bromwich Albion and Millwall.
Norwich lost to West Brom 1-2 in the opening match, before suffering a heavy 0-3 defeat to Millwall. Therefore, the performance against Burnley brought many encouraging signs for coach Philippe Clement.
Norwich still has many problems to solve after two defeats at the beginning of the season, but the victory over Burnley brought a timely boost.
Meanwhile, Stoke needs to quickly find a way to limit mistakes if they do not want the disappointing streak to continue.
The match between Stoke City and Norwich City takes place at 2:00 AM on September 2nd (Vietnam time).
