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Match report · Championship

Middlesbrough 1:0 Norwich City

Middlesbrough Home 0.43 xG · 9 shots
Norwich City Away 0.53 xG · 8 shots
10 The chances were evenly matched

Goals

  1. 17' Hayden Hackney Middlesbrough · 0.02 xG chance 1–0

The shots behind it

Middlesbrough Norwich City
Shots
9
8
On target
5
3
Inside the box
4
6
xG per shot
0.05
0.07
Open play xG
0.24
0.31
Set-piece xG
0.20
0.21
Penalties
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Shot-level xG may differ from the published match total

The provider publishes the match total separately from its shot-by-shot values. Those values are rounded to two decimals and, leaving out penalties and own goals, add up to its non-penalty xG: 0.43 for Middlesbrough and 0.51 for Norwich City.

Shot map

Both teams shown attacking the same goal for comparison.

Norwich City · Ruairi McConville · 88' · No goal · 8 m · 0.18 xG Middlesbrough · Morgan Whittaker · 50' · No goal · 3 m · 0.14 xG Norwich City · Jovon Makama · 9' · No goal · 16 m · 0.11 xG Norwich City · Ali Ahmed · 11' · No goal · 3 m · 0.07 xG Norwich City · Jovon Makama · 78' · No goal · 12 m · 0.07 xG Middlesbrough · Tommy Conway · 84' · No goal · 16 m · 0.06 xG Middlesbrough · Morgan Whittaker · 43' · No goal · 12 m · 0.06 xG Middlesbrough · Matt Targett · 57' · No goal · 19 m · 0.06 xG Middlesbrough · Morgan Whittaker · 3' · No goal · 4 m · 0.05 xG Norwich City · Anis Ben Slimane · 78' · No goal · 19 m · 0.04 xG Middlesbrough · Hayden Hackney · 17' · Goal · 20 m · 0.02 xG Norwich City · Ali Ahmed · 33' · No goal · 11 m · 0.02 xG Norwich City · Jovon Makama · 11' · No goal · 21 m · 0.02 xG Middlesbrough · Aidan Morris · 41' · No goal · 22 m · 0.02 xG Middlesbrough · Aidan Morris · 54' · No goal · 32 m · 0.01 xG Middlesbrough · Hayden Hackney · 2' · No goal · 29 m · 0.01 xG Norwich City · Papa Amadou Diallo · 32' · No goal · 11 m · 0.01 xG

All shots

17 shots · 0.96 xG

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  • Middlesbrough
  • Norwich City
  • Filled = goal
  • Dot area = xG (the smallest chances drawn at a minimum size)

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Last 6 · xG per match
Middlesbrough

1.67 xG created 0.82 xGA

  • L 1.47 created, 0.29 conceded against Hull City
  • L 1.32 created, 1.22 conceded against Derby County
  • W 2.27 created, 1.12 conceded against Southampton
  • W 0.93 created, 1.06 conceded against West Bromwich Albion
  • W 1.22 created, 0.81 conceded against Stoke City
  • W 2.83 created, 0.40 conceded against Preston North End
Norwich City

0.95 xG created 1.17 xGA

  • L 0.95 created, 0.36 conceded against Watford
  • W 1.90 created, 0.72 conceded against Queens Park Rangers
  • L 0.54 created, 2.06 conceded against Stoke City
  • W 0.24 created, 0.85 conceded against Wrexham
  • W 0.83 created, 1.34 conceded against West Bromwich Albion
  • W 1.25 created, 1.67 conceded against Coventry City

xG created xG conceded (xGA) W / D / L: the match result

Head to head

Middlesbrough: 1 won · 0 drawn · 0 lost

Model details

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Limitations

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