📏 Form Guide

Watford

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Watford will be hoping for a better result after the 3-2 Championship loss in their previous game against Southampton.

In that game, Watford had 38% possession and 12 shots on goal with 6 on target. For Watford, the scorers were Ryan Porteous (34') and Ismaël Koné (85'). On the other side, Southampton had 13 shots at goal with 4 on target. Will Smallbone (1'), Ché Adams (20') and Flynn Downes (99') scored for Southampton.

In their preceding six games, Tom Cleverley's Watford have celebrated scoring 7 times resulting in an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.17.

Analysis of their past results shows that Watford:

• are unbeaten in their previous 2 home league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 11 matches in the league. Something needs to change.

Hull City

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Hull City will go into this encounter following a 3-0 Championship win vs Queens Park Rangers in their most recent outing.

In that game, Hull City managed 54% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. For Hull City, the scorers were Ozan Tufan (8'), Fábio Carvalho (27') and Jaden Philogene (52'). At the other end, Queens Park Rangers had 12 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

In as many as 5 of the previous 6 clashes featuring Hull City, three or more goals have been hit. The overall average number of goals per game during that time is 3.5, with the number of goals averaged by Hull City working out to 1.83.

Ahead of this clash, Hull City have not emerged victorious against Watford in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their past head to head meetings going back to 02/04/2013 shows us that Watford have won 3 of these and Hull City 2, with the number of draws being 1.

A sum of 8 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 4 of them for The Hornets and 4 for The Tigers. That is an average goals per game value of 1.33.

The last league meeting between these sides was Championship match day 19 on 02/12/2023 which ended up with the score at Hull City 1-2 Watford.

That day, Hull City managed 61% possession and 23 shots on goal with 7 on target. Their only player to score was Scott Twine (10').

At the other end, Watford had 11 shots at goal with 5 on target. Edo Kayembe (8') and Wesley Hoedt (74') scored.

The referee was John Busby.

ℹ️ Team News: Watford

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just one fitness concern for the Watford gaffer Tom Cleverley to be concerned about from a near full-strength group. Kwadwo Baah (Hamstring injury) is sidelined.

🗞️ Team News: Hull City

Hull City manager Liam Rosenior has to choose a team with limited availability. Cyrus Christie (Achilles tendon problems) and James Furlong (Knee injury) will miss out on this game.

💭 Prediction

We feel that Hull City and Watford should both be able to find the back of the net here although it’s difficult to select a clear winner.

There should be little in it, and a draw looks to be quite a realistic result. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very even match with a 1-1 score draw when all is said and done.

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Renata Leite, 13:07 20/04/2024