📏 Form Guide

Southampton

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Southampton will be looking for another win after the 2-1 Championship triumph versus Coventry City.

In that match, Southampton managed 60% possession and 13 shots at goal with 6 on target. For Southampton, goals were scored by Kyle Walker-Peters (18') and Ché Adams (38'). At the other end, Coventry City had 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Jake Bidwell (68') scored for Coventry City.

Fixtures involving Southampton have proved to be lively ones lately with high scoring being the norm. Over their past 6 games alone, the sum of 23 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.83 goals per game) with 13 of these being chalked up by Southampton. We will just have to find out if that trend can be continued on in this game.

Pre-game facts show that Southampton:

• have not registered a win against Watford in their previous 2 league games.
• are unbeaten in their last 3 league matches at home.

Watford

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Previously, Watford drew 0-0 in the Championship match with Ipswich Town.

In that game, Watford managed 43% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 3 on target. At the other end, Ipswich Town had 15 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

Throughout their 6 previous matches, Tom Cleverley's Watford have converted 7 times, earning them a goals scored per game average of 1.17.

Taking a look at their past results, Watford:

• are unbeaten in their previous 3 league matches away from home.
• have not won away from home in their last 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 28/06/2020 shows that Southampton have won 3 of them and Watford 1, with the tally of draws standing at 2.

A sum of 15 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 10 for The Saints and 5 belonging to The Hornets. That is an average goals per game value of 2.5.

📋 Team News: Southampton

Kamaldeen Sulemana (unknown injury), Juan Larios (unknown injury) and Ross Stewart (Muscle injury) won’t be playing for Southampton gaffer Russell Martin.

In our view, The Saints should employ a 4-3-3 system for this one with Gavin Bazunu, James Bree, T. Harwood-Bellis, Jack Stephens, Kyle Walker-Peters, Joe Aribo, Flynn Downes, Stuart Armstrong, Ryan Fraser, Che Adams and Adam Armstrong.

ℹ️ Team News: Watford

Owing to an otherwise full-strength group, there’s just the lone fitness problem for the Watford boss Tom Cleverley to be concerned with. Kwadwo Baah (Hamstring injury) misses out for this game.

It’s our belief that The Hornets could decide to play in a 3-4-3 lineup with a starting lineup of Daniel Bachmann, Mattie Pollock, Wesley Hoedt, Ryan Porteous, Ryan Andrews, Edo Kayembe, Tom Dele-Bashiru, Jamal Lewis, Yaser Asprilla, Vakoun Issouf Bayo and Giorgi Chakvetadze.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that in this game, Watford should have enough to find the back of the net against this Southampton outfit, however it probably won’t be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We are anticipating a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning score for Southampton after 90 minutes. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 13:01 13/04/2024