Watford vs Middlesbrough Prediction & Betting Tips

Middlesbrough will be the visitors at Vicarage Road Stadium on Friday for the Championship game with home team Watford.

All Watford v Middlesbrough match predictions, user poll and stats are shown below (inc. the best betting odds).

📊 Form Guide

Watford LWWLLL 📉

Watford won’t want a repeat of their last result here following a 3-2 Premier League defeat in their last game at the hands of Arsenal.

In that match, Watford had 50% possession and 19 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. For Watford, goals were scored by Troy Deeney (43') and Danny Welbeck (66'). Arsenal got 13 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (5', 33') and Kieran Tierney (24') scored for Arsenal.

It’s not been often in recent games that Watford haven’t conceded. The facts show that The Hornets have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 15 goals during that time.

Middlesbrough WLWLWW

Middlesbrough come into this match following on from a 4-3 EFL Cup win against Shrewsbury Town in their last outing.

For Middlesbrough, goals were scored by Marvin Johnson (21'), Ashley Fletcher (31', 53') and Marcus Tavernier (65'). Scott High (13'), Jason Cummings (60') and Rekeil Pyke (73') scored for Shrewsbury Town.

Illustrating their bias toward high-scoring encounters, we’ve seen goals 23 times in the last 6 matches in which Middlesbrough have sent out their troops, giving an average of 3.83 goals each clash. Opposing teams have managed 11 of those goals. We will have to see whether or not that trend can be continued on into this next match.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 09/11/2013 shows that Watford have won 3 of these & Middlesbrough 0, with the number of drawn games being 3.

A combined sum of 10 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 7 for The Hornets and 3 coming from The Boro. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.67.

The last league meeting between these clubs was Premier League match day 21 on 14/01/2017 which ended up with the score at Watford 0-0 Middlesbrough.

On that occasion, Watford had 39% possession and 2 attempts at goal with 1 on target.

Middlesbrough had 1 attempts on goal with 0 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Jonathan Moss.

📰 Team News: Watford

Daryl Janmaat (Knee Injury) and Nathaniel Chalobah (Corona virus) won’t be available for Watford boss Vladimir Ivić.

In all likelihood, The Hornets will probably use a 3-4-2-1 formation for this game featuring Ben Foster, Ben Wilmot, Christian Kabasele, Craig Dawson, Pervis Estupiñán, Tom Cleverley, Nathaniel Chalobah, Jeremy Ngakia, Domingos Quina, Tom Dele-Bashiru and Glenn Murray.

📋 Team News: Middlesbrough

Owing to a completely healthy squad ready to go, Middlesbrough manager Neil Warnock has zero fitness concerns at all before this clash.

From our viewpoint, The Boro seem likely to make use of a 3-5-2 lineup, going with Dejan Stojanovic, Anfernee Dijksteel, Grant Hall, Dael Fry, Djed Spence, Jonathan Howson, Lewis Wing, Marcus Tavernier, Marvin Johnson, Ashley Michael Fletcher and Britt Assombalonga.

⚡ Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Middlesbrough should be able to find the net against this Watford side, although it may not be enough to avoid defeat.

Our selection here is for a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 win for Watford by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.

Peter Guest, 23:04 06/09/2020