Norwich City 1-2 Brentford: result and report

Championship · Friday 22 December 2017

Result

Norwich City 1-2 Brentford

Championship · Friday 22 December 2017, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-2

Norwich City · Brentford · Championship predictions

Norwich City 1-2 Brentford: match report

Norwich City were beaten by Brentford 1-2 in the Championship on Friday 22 December 2017. It was 0-2 at half-time.

Lasse Vibe opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Norwich City's goal came from Nélson Oliveira (90+1'). Brentford scored through Lasse Vibe (36') and Lasse Vibe (41').

Discipline: Norwich City received 2 yellow cards; Brentford received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Norwich City were 16th on 27 points from 22 and Brentford 13th on 28 points from 22. Norwich City went on to finish that season 14th with 60 points, and Brentford 9th with 69.

Norwich City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Brentford in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Lasse Vibe of Brentford (8.7), ahead of Timm Klose (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Norwich City wins, 1 draw and 1 for Brentford.

Going into the match Norwich City's last five read L-W-L-D-L and Brentford's D-L-W-D-D.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 36'Goal · Lasse VibeBrentford · 0-1
  • 41'Goal · Lasse VibeBrentford · 0-2
  • 45+2'Yellow card · M. StiepermannNorwich City
  • 58'Yellow card · R. SawyersBrentford
  • 61'Yellow card · Neal MaupayBrentford
  • 79'Yellow card · Alex PritchardNorwich City
  • 90+1'Goal · Nélson OliveiraNorwich City · 1-2

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Norwich City 2, draws 1, Brentford 1.

Team news

Norwich City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Angus Gunn, Ivo Pinto, Timm Klose, Marco Stiepermann, Grant Hanley, Harrison Reed, Mario Vrančić, Marley Watkins, Alex Pritchard, James Maddison, Nélson Oliveira

Brentford line-up (4-1-4-1)

Daniel Bentley, Andreas Bjelland, Nico Yennaris, Yoann Barbet, Chris Mepham, Florian Jozefzoon, Ollie Watkins, Islom Ismoilov, Ryan Woods, R. Sawyers, Lasse Vibe