Watford vs Luton Town Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Watford

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Watford are hoping to win again after their last result, a 0-1 Championship success versus Middlesbrough.

In that game, Watford managed 42% possession and 14 shots at goal with 6 on target. The only player to score for Watford was Moussa Sissoko (40'). On the other side, Middlesbrough had 13 attempts at goal with 5 on target.

It has been seldom in recent times that Watford have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Watford have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 11 goals along the way. Let’s see if that trend will be continued on here.

Their past results show that Watford:

• have not beaten Luton Town in their previous 2 matches in the league.
• are without a win at home for the past 5 league games. That's never good.

Luton Town

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In the game prior to this, Luton Town drew 1-1 in the Championship tie with Plymouth Argyle.

In that game, Luton Town managed 59% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 2 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Luton Town was Jacob Brown (55'). For their opponents, Plymouth Argyle had 3 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. Maksym Talovierov (70') scored for Plymouth Argyle.

The numbers tell their own story, and Luton Town have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 8 goals in all. In defence, Luton Town have clearly had some problems.

Leading up to this clash, Luton Town:

• have not won against Watford when having played them away from home in the previous 6 league games. They really have not been travelling well at all.
• have not won away from home in their last 13 matches in the league. They clearly need to do something about it.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 09/04/2006 tells us that Watford have won 2 of these & Luton Town 3, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

13 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 6 of them for The Hornets and 7 belonging to The Hatters. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The previous league encounter featuring the two was Championship match day 10 on 19/10/2024 when it ended Luton Town 3-0 Watford.

That day, Luton Town had 41% possession and 13 shots at goal with 5 on target. The goalscorers were Jordan Clark (11'), Carlton Morris (47') and Jacob Brown (91').

Watford got 9 shots on goal with 1 on target.

The match was refereed by Stephen Martin.

📋 Team News: Watford

In our view, The Hornets may well use a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game, handing starts to Egil Selvik, Ryan Andrews, James Abankwah, Kevin Keben, Yasser Larouci, Imran Louza, Moussa Sissoko, Tom Dele-Bashiru, Edo Kayembe, Giorgi Chakvetadze and Mamadou Doumbia.

📋 Team News: Luton Town

In an otherwise healthy group, there’s only a single fitness problem for the Luton Town boss Matt Bloomfield to be concerned about. Tom Lockyer (heart problems) misses out for this game.

We reckon that The Hatters seem most likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 lineup, giving starts to Thomas Kaminski, Isaiah Jones, Mark McGuinness, Kal Naismith, Amarii Bell, Alfie Doughty, Marvelous Nakamba, Liam Walsh, Thelo Aasgaard, Carlton Morris and Elijah Adebayo.

💭 Prediction

Our thinking is that Luton Town will have to play well to hit the back of the net against this Watford lineup who we think should win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

We’re therefore anticipating a hard-fought 1-0 win for Watford at the end of the 90.

We’re expecting it to be that close.

📚 ⚽️ What are the best odds for the game?

Turning to the betting odds in the 90 minute result market, a victory for Watford is available for 2.3, betting on the draw is 3.3 & taking a punt on a win for Luton Town will get you 2.88. These are the best of the prices offered at this very moment.

Andre Moura, 09:05 22/02/2025