📊 Form Guide

Watford

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Watford will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 2-1 Championship defeat last time out to West Bromwich Albion.

In that game, Watford had 61% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for Watford was Moussa Sissoko (76'). On the other side, West Bromwich Albion had 10 shots on goal with 5 on target. Karlan Ahearne-Grant (11') and Mikey Johnston (60') scored for West Bromwich Albion.

Watford have found it difficult to unlock defences in more recent games. Their sum of goals equals just 4 against opposition teams over their last 6 fixtures. In those games, Watford have also seen the number of goals scored against them total 5. Regardless, we must now wait to see if such a trend shall continue on in this next match or not.

Analysis of their past results shows that Watford:

• have not registered a win against Burnley in their previous 2 league matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 3 home league matches.

Burnley

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Burnley come into this meeting following on from a 2-1 Championship win over Norwich City in their previous fixture.

In that match, Burnley had 45% possession and 8 shots at goal with 2 on target. For Burnley, the scorers were Hannibal Mejbri (14') and Jaidon Anthony (24'). On the other side, Norwich City had 12 shots on goal with 2 on target. Jack Stacey (76') scored for Norwich City.

A succession of dependable performances from the Burnley defensive unit has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 3 from their last 6 clashes in total. In that period of time, their forwards have scored 8.

Coming into this fixture, Burnley have not been beaten in their last 14 away league matches. A simply stunning run of away results.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head clashes stretching back to 25/06/2020 tells us that Watford have won 1 of these & Burnley 3, with the tally of drawn results being 2.

A sum of 10 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 4 of them from The Hornets and 6 created by The Clarets. The average goals per game has been 1.67.

The last league meeting between these clubs was Championship match day 22 on 21/12/2024 and the score finished Burnley 2-1 Watford.

On that day, Burnley had 55% possession and 15 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. The goalscorers were Jaidon Anthony (9') and Josh Brownhill (62').

On the other side, Watford got 9 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Kwadwo Baah (80') scored.

The referee was James Linington.

🗞️ Team News: Watford

Giorgi Chakvetadze (Stress reaction of the bone), Yasser Larouci (unknown injury) and Kwadwo Baah (Muscle injury) are unavailable for Watford gaffer Tom Cleverley.

📋 Team News: Burnley

Burnley boss Scott Parker has to choose a team with limited availability. Josh Laurent (Ankle injury), Benson Manuel (Achilles tendon problems), Mike Trésor (unknown injury), Bashir Humphreys (unknown injury) and Aaron Ramsey (Knee injury) won’t be making appearances.

⚡ Prediction

Our feeling is that Watford might well have a job on their hands to register a score against this Burnley outfit who we reckon should just have the edge.

We’re therefore tipping a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 winning score for Burnley at the conclusion of the game.

Let’s see how this one goes.

Lucas Pereira, 13:03 18/04/2025