Betting preview: Huddersfield Town vs Watford - predictions and stats

Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Competition: England Championship
Competition: Sat 17.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: The John Smith's Stadium (24500 seats)

The guesting Watford team are probably front runners at Huddersfield Town, as the away team have a 14 point supremacy from their 22 league matches this season.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

L L D W L

Huddersfield Town form and stats

The story so far in the Championship for Huddersfield Town at their home stadium (The John Smith's Stadium) is 4 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats.

Huddersfield haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 244 minutes ago. Ruffels scored that one.

Huddersfield Town lost their last game at Sheffield United (placed 2nd) after a 0-1 scoreline. Helik, defender, was given a rating of 7.63/10 in that game, top of the team. Helik won 3 of 4 duels.

In the game before, an away victory match versus Queens Park Rangers with a 2-1 scoreline.

It should be noted that a glance at the 10 latest league games reveals that 8 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored a goal).

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Huddersfield Town here at The John Smith's Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (10 from 11 games). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Huddersfield Town are not conceding a lot of goals here at The John Smith's Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 10 from 11 matches.

D D W L W

Watford form and stats

As the visiting team in Championship matches, Watford have produced an overall stat of 3-5-3 so far.

The attacking players of Watford have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 183 minutes. Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Watford goalkeeper Daniel Bachmann is eager to challenge this, with his 310 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Watford delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Hull City (placed 19th) in their previous match. Pedro got a match rating of 7.84 in that game, top player of the team. Pedro hit one key pass and had 55 successful passes (of 65 total).

Before that, Watford travelled to Bristol City and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.

12 goals have been conceded by Watford in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Head to head data (for the prior ten meetings): Huddersfield won five games, zero matches ended in a draw and Watford have five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / three.

Top Goalscorers

WatfordJ. Junqueira de Jesus
J. Junqueira de Jesus
6 goals
WatfordI. Sarr
I. Sarr
6 goals
WatfordK. Davis
K. Davis
4 goals

Huddersfield Town missing players

Watford missing players

Huddersfield Town Watford
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 11 3 Played P 6 11 22
5 4 1 Won W 3 3 9
4 2 0 Drew D 2 5 7
12 5 2 Lost L 1 3 6
19 10 1 Scored S 10 11 28
27 10 2 Conceded C 6 12 22
90% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 82% 86%
57% 45% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 73% 68%
43% 27% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 36% 45%
19% 18% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 18% 23%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 5%
43% 27% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 45% 45%
24% 36% 33% Clean Sheets C S 33% 36% 41%
43% 45% 67% Failed to Score F T 0% 36% 27%
 
4.2 4.6 4.7 Corners for (avg) C F 5.7 5.2 5
5.2 3.9 3.7 Corners against (avg) C A 6.2 5.5 5.3
2.1 2.1 2.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 1.7 1.9
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.4 10.4 8.7 Shots (avg) S ( 12.8 11.5 11.9
3.5 3.6 1.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.2 3.8
26% 25% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 42% 31% 33%
 
14.3 11.8 10.7 Shots against (avg) S A 12.3 11.5 11.2
4.6 3.5 3.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4.1 3.8

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Burnley 22 12 8 2 43 23 11 7 4 0 23 10 11 5 4 2 20 13 20 41
2 Sheffield United 22 12 5 5 36 19 11 6 3 2 23 11 11 6 2 3 13 8 17 38
3 Blackburn Rovers 22 12 0 10 25 26 11 8 0 3 18 11 11 4 0 7 7 15 -1 36
4 Norwich City 22 10 5 7 30 23 11 5 3 3 18 12 11 5 2 4 12 11 7 32
5 Preston North End 22 9 7 6 22 21 11 3 4 4 7 11 11 6 3 2 15 10 1 31
6 Watford 22 9 7 6 28 22 11 6 2 3 17 10 11 3 5 3 11 12 6 33
7 Reading 22 10 2 10 24 30 11 7 1 3 16 11 11 3 1 7 8 19 -6 29
8 Millwall 22 9 5 8 27 26 11 7 2 2 17 8 11 2 3 6 10 18 1 31
9 Swansea City 22 8 7 7 27 29 11 5 2 4 15 14 11 3 5 3 12 15 -2 31
10 Queens Park Rangers 22 9 4 9 26 27 11 5 2 4 15 13 11 4 2 5 11 14 -1 31
11 Luton Town 22 7 9 6 24 24 11 2 7 2 14 12 11 5 2 4 10 12 0 30
12 Middlesbrough 22 8 6 8 31 27 11 4 5 2 13 11 11 4 1 6 18 16 4 27
13 Sunderland 21 8 6 7 29 23 10 3 4 3 13 10 11 5 2 4 16 13 6 30
14 Coventry City 20 8 5 7 21 19 9 5 1 3 10 6 11 3 4 4 11 13 2 29
15 Birmingham City 22 7 8 7 23 20 11 3 5 3 13 10 11 4 3 4 10 10 3 28
16 Bristol City 22 7 6 9 30 30 11 4 3 4 13 10 11 3 3 5 17 20 0 24
17 Stoke City 22 7 5 10 24 29 11 3 3 5 13 16 11 4 2 5 11 13 -5 25
18 Rotherham United 22 6 8 8 26 29 11 4 3 4 18 15 11 2 5 4 8 14 -3 26
19 Hull City 22 7 4 11 25 39 11 4 0 7 11 20 11 3 4 4 14 19 -14 24
20 Cardiff City 22 7 4 11 19 27 11 4 2 5 9 10 11 3 2 6 10 17 -8 24
21 Wigan Athletic 22 6 6 10 22 32 11 2 3 6 8 18 11 4 3 4 14 14 -10 23
22 Blackpool 22 6 5 11 24 33 11 3 2 6 12 16 11 3 3 5 12 17 -9 22
23 West Bromwich Albion 20 5 8 7 24 24 11 3 4 4 14 14 9 2 4 3 10 10 0 23
24 Huddersfield Town 21 5 4 12 19 27 11 4 2 5 10 10 10 1 2 7 9 17 -8 19

Huddersfield Town:
Watford:
Championship:
England:

Read more about Championship

The English Football League Championship (usually shortened to the Championship) is the second highest division in the English football league system. 24 teams play 46 fixtures from August to May, meeting each other twice. The Championship is the wealthiest second-level division in the world.