Watford vs Leicester City Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Watford

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Watford will be hoping to bounce back here following the 1-5 Premier League loss in their previous game against Leicester City.

In that game, Watford had 41% possession and 13 shots on goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for Watford was João Pedro (6'). For their opponents, Leicester City got 13 attempts at goal with 7 on target. James Maddison (18'), Jamie Vardy (22', 70') and Harvey Barnes (46', 86') scored for Leicester City.

Watford haven’t exactly had impressive attacking statistics of late. Their goals record equals just 3 against opposing sides over their previous six matches. In those games, Watford have also seen the tally of goals scored against them total 13.

Analysis of their past results shows that Watford:

• have not beaten Leicester City in their previous 3 matches in the league.
• are without a home win in the past 12 league matches. No joy for the home fans.

Leicester City

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Brendan Rodgers's Leicester City have seen their efforts on goal rewarded a total of 6 times throughout their previous 6 matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during that same period comes to 7.

Their past results show that Leicester City:

• haven't beaten Watford when they've played them away from home in the last 4 league games. Not good.
• are without an away win for the past 5 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their prior head to head meetings dating back to 01/12/2018 shows us that Watford have won 1 of these games and Leicester City 4, with the tally of draws standing at 1.

A combined sum of 20 goals were scored between them in this period, with 6 for The Hornets and 14 for The Foxes. That’s an average goals per game of 3.33.

🗞️ Team News: Watford

Looking at personnel, there is just one fitness concern for the Watford gaffer Roy Hodgson to be concerned with thanks to an almost full-strength group. Nicolas N'Koulou (Hamstring Injury) is out of contention.

🗞️ Team News: Leicester City

Due to a mostly healthy squad, there’s just the lone fitness issue for the Leicester City gaffer Brendan Rodgers to contend with. Wilfred Ndidi (Knee Injury) misses out for this game.

🔮 Prediction

Our assessment here is that Watford will need to put in a solid display to hit the back of the net against this Leicester City side who should get the vital goal that wins it.

We’re therefore tipping a very even match with a 0-1 win for Leicester City at the end of the 90 minutes.

Should be a close one.

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Lucas Pereira, 00:32 11/05/2022