Cardiff City vs Norwich City — match summary
England · Carabao Cup · kick-off 26 Aug 2026 01:00
Full time · score 1-2
Shots on target 3-3 · corners 5-3 · possession 66-34
NextGOAL tip: Over 2.5 · 2 stars
This is a Carabao Cup match where the two teams last met in the league last season, with Norwich City winning 4-2 in May 25. But this time Cardiff City are playing at home, and the recent form of both sides is clearly different: Cardiff have drawn 2 straight matches in the Championship (2-2 vs Derby County on Aug 22, 1-1 vs Wrexham on Aug 17), while Norwich have just lost 2 in a row (0-3 at Millwall on Aug 22, 1-2 vs West Bromwich Albion on Aug 15). So this game is likely to be more open and end-to-end rather than the home side sitting back, because Norwich need to restore their confidence, and the expected total goals trend of around 2.9 goals also indicates a high chance that both sides will score more than 2 goals. The limitation is that both teams have just started the season, so form data is still limited, but the price moving the total goals line from 2.5 up to 2.75 also reflects that the market sees this game as having plenty of goals.