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The first of our Mar 9 Championship betting tips is for Norwich v Swansea. The Championship weekend gets off to a flyer as Norwich and Swansea meet on Friday night in a match shown live on Sky Sports from 7.45pm. The hosts started the week sitting top of the league with season stats reading 20 wins and nine draws against six defeats and that would suggest they are determined to force a long-overdue return to the top-flight of English football. If we know anything of the Championship, however, it’s that nothing can be taken for granted in this division and we’ll see a few more twists before a king is crowned. Leeds in second is two points behind with third-placed Sheff Utd four off the pace.
The Canaries have won each of their last three league starts to slide into pole position and were last seen handing out an impressive 3-1 defeat to Millwall in London on Saturday 2 March. Stiepermann, Zimmermann and Pukki were all on the scoresheet that day, the beaten side responding through Williams on the stroke of half-time to send the teams into the break level at 1-1. Norwich hit back in the second 45 and ended the match deserving winners of another three points. Daniel Farke blamed sloppy passes for the match being closer than it should’ve been at the interval but was glad his players got the win their play deserved. Local cheer is 4/6 favourite at Bet365 and that’s worth a place in your accumulators.
Swansea has failed to live up to expectations this season and will end the campaign in midtable, failing to put pressure on the promotion play-off places but finishing far enough away from the relegation zone that they don’t have to worry. A lack of consistency has cost them dear this term and their last five matches sum up how their season has gone on the whole – lose, win, lose, lose, win. They have 47 points on the board and are treading water at present. With little to play for between now and the flag, we’re not expecting too much to change.
The Swans did win last time out when beating struggling Bolton 2-0 at home, a result achieved thanks to goals from McBurnie and Celina. It was tighter than the final score would suggest, and Swansea needed a stoppage-time winner to give themselves a cushion, but they were given a helping hand by their opponents who finished the match with nine men. Noone was sent off for a second bookable offence on 43 minutes and was joined by Wheater on 73. An afternoon to forget for Bolton and they now look destined for the drop. The Swansea win is 7/2 with Bet365, a draw 3/1 with the same firm. We’ll stick with the form side.