Watford vs Sunderland Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Watford

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Watford prepare for this fixture coming off the back of a 0-0 Championship stalemate against Hull City.

In that game, Watford managed 48% possession and 17 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Hull City had 13 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target.

Tom Cleverley's Watford have seen rewards for their attempts on goal 6 times in their prior 6 outings. The corresponding number of goals that they have conceded in that time is 7.

Their past results show that Watford:

• have not registered a win against Sunderland in their previous 3 matches in the league.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 3 league matches at home.
• are without a win at home for the past 12 matches in the league. It's been disappointing.

Sunderland

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Since being beaten in their last game against Millwall in Championship action, Sunderland and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Sunderland managed 68% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 3 on target. At the other end, Millwall had 4 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. Duncan Watmore (71') scored for Millwall.

The forward players for Sunderland have had real problems scoring goals in their past six games, recording the poor return of only 4. In those matches, The Black Cats have also seen the collective goal aggregate of their opponents equal 6.

Looking at their past form shows that Sunderland:

• have not registered a win against Watford when they've played them away from home in the last 5 matches in the league. Not the best of away records.
• are undefeated in their previous 3 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 15/05/2016 shows us that Watford have won 1 of these games and Sunderland 2, with the number of drawn matches standing at 3.

An aggregate of 16 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 7 from The Hornets and 9 belonging to The Black Cats. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The last league match between the two was Championship match day 10 on 04/10/2023 when it finished Sunderland 2-0 Watford.

That time, Sunderland managed 58% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The goals were scored by Niall Huggins (43') and Abdoullah Ba (62').

Watford had 11 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Andy Davies.

📰 Team News: Watford

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just the sole fitness concern for the Watford manager Tom Cleverley to be concerned with from a near full-strength group of players. Kwadwo Baah (Hamstring injury) will miss out.

We think that The Hornets may well use the 3-4-3 system for this game, utilising Daniel Bachmann, Francisco Sierralta, Wesley Hoedt, Ryan Porteous, Ryan Andrews, Edo Kayembe, Ismaël Koné, Jamal Lewis, Yaser Asprilla, Vakoun Issouf Bayo and Emmanuel Dennis.

📋 Team News: Sunderland

We’re of the thinking that The Black Cats could decide to make use of a 3-4-3 lineup, giving starts to Anthony Patterson, Aji Alese, Daniel Ballard, Luke O'Nien, Timothée Pembélé, Pierre Ekwah, Bradley Dack, Callum Styles, Chris Rigg, Jobe Bellingham and Jack Clarke.

✨ Prediction

We feel that in this game, Sunderland have the ability to put a goal past this Watford side, but it may not quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We think that it’s going to be a narrow 2-1 advantage for Watford by the conclusion of the game. We’ll have to see what happens.

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Lucas Pereira, 02:08 25/04/2024