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Watford vs Rotherham United Live Stream, Predictions
The Championship game at Vicarage Road Stadium on Saturday will see home side Watford welcome opponents Rotherham United.
Our Watford v Rotherham United tips, poll and stats can be seen in full below (inc. the best betting odds).
📏 Form Guide
Watford
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Watford will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 2-0 Championship success vs Blackpool.
In that match, Watford managed 52% possession and 11 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. For Watford, the scorers were Tobi Adeyemo (72') and Ismaïla Sarr (87'). Blackpool had 6 shots on goal with 2 on target.
Fewer than three goals per game were scored during 5 of the past 6 meetings where Watford have been participants. Regarding the goal distribution in this period, their opponents scored an aggregate of 8 while Watford got themselves 5. We will see if that trend will be continued on here.
Coming into this meeting, Watford are unbeaten in the league by Rotherham United in their previous 9 games. A decent run, indeed.
Rotherham United
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Rotherham United head into the match following a 4-0 Championship win versus Blackburn Rovers in their most recent fixture.
In that game, Rotherham United managed 23% possession and 8 shots on goal with 4 on target. For Rotherham United, the goalscorers were Hakeem Odoffin (1'), Oliver Rathbone (52'), Shane Ferguson (76') and Conor Washington (93'). Blackburn Rovers had 9 shots on goal with 3 of them on target.
The stats don’t lie, and Rotherham United have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 14 goals overall. Defensively, Rotherham United have been far from perfect.
Their previous form shows that Rotherham United:
- have left without a victory over Watford when they've played them away from home in the last 4 matches in the league. Not good.
- are without an away win for the past 4 league matches.
👥 Head to head
Looking over past results between these clubs stretching back to 16/04/2005 shows that these encounters have not been kind to Rotherham United. They’ve not managed to come away with any victories whatsoever whereas Watford have simply been better than them, beating them in 83 per cent of those ties.
A combined total of 15 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 13 for The Hornets and 2 for The Millers. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.5.
The previous league match featuring the two was Championship match day 8 on 03/09/2022 and the score finished Rotherham United 1-1 Watford.
That day, Rotherham United had 34% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The scorer was Richard Wood (2').
For their opponents, Watford got 12 shots at goal with 2 on target. Vakoun Issouf Bayo (33') was the scorer.
The referee was Leigh Doughty.
ℹ️ Team News: Watford
Imrân Louza (Ankle Injury), Tom Cleverley (Achilles tendon problems) and João Pedro (Ankle Injury) won’t be able to feature for Watford boss Slaven Bilić.
ℹ️ Team News: Rotherham United
Thanks to a fully healthy squad ready to go, the Rotherham United manager Matt Taylor does not have any fitness worries to report coming into this game.
💡 Prediction
For this match, we think that Watford can get a couple of goals in this one when they play Rotherham United, who may well struggle to score themselves.
We’re tipping a fairly comfortable 2-0 margin for Watford when the full-time whistle blows.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Victor Martins, 01:49 17/01/2023

⚽️ Team Focus:
Watford
Formed: 1881
Stadium: Vicarage Road Stadium (21,000)
Captain: Tom Cleverley
Chairman: Scott Duxbury
Manager: Slaven Bilić
Competitions: Championship position 3
🔑 Star Player: João Pedro

Customarily playing in the Striker position, João Pedro was born in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. After having played his first senior match for Fluminense in the 2019 season, the talented Forward has scored a sum of 8 league goals in the Championship 2022 - 2023 campaign to date coming from a total of 20 appearances.
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28 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 29 | 62 | WWWWW |
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28 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 24 | 57 | WWDWW |
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27 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 43 | WLLWW |
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27 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 42 | LWWWW |
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28 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 42 | LDLWW |
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27 | 14 | 0 | 13 | -4 | 42 | WLLWL |
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28 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 41 | WWWWL |
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26 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 39 | DWDWL |
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26 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 39 | LWWWL |
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27 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 38 | DWWDL |
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27 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 38 | DLWLW |
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27 | 10 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 37 | WDLDD |
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27 | 10 | 7 | 10 | -6 | 37 | LLLWL |
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27 | 11 | 4 | 12 | -7 | 37 | LWDLD |
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27 | 9 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 35 | LDDLL |
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28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | -11 | 34 | DWWDL |
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27 | 8 | 8 | 11 | -1 | 32 | LLDDW |
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27 | 8 | 8 | 11 | -4 | 32 | WLLLL |
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27 | 7 | 9 | 11 | -7 | 30 | LDLLW |
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27 | 8 | 6 | 13 | -8 | 30 | WDLLL |
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27 | 7 | 8 | 12 | -9 | 29 | DDDLD |
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26 | 7 | 5 | 14 | -8 | 26 | LWWLD |
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27 | 6 | 8 | 13 | -12 | 26 | DDLDL |
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27 | 6 | 7 | 14 | -20 | 25 | LLLLD |
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Goals scored | 1.5 |
Goals conceded | 0.9 |
Time first goal scored | 33 |
Time first goal conceded | 34 |
Yellow cards | 2.1 |
Red cards | 0.2 |
Subs used | 3.5 |
Biggest victory | 4-0 |
Biggest defeat | 2-0 |
Goals scored | 0.6 |
Goals conceded | 1.6 |
Time first goal scored | 21 |
Time first goal conceded | 44 |
Yellow cards | 2.9 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 4.2 |
Biggest victory | 1-0 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
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Ismaïla Sarr | 7 |
Vakoun Issouf Bayo | 4 |
Keinan Davis | 4 |
Ken Sema | 3 |
Chiedozie Ogbene | 6 |
Conor Washington | 5 |
Richard Wood | 4 |
Georgie Kelly | 3 |
Oliver Rathbone | 3 |
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