We are looking at a noteworthy difference in form between these teams based on table positions so far, with Watford in front of Blackpool by 14 points.
- Watford have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
Watford and Blackpool should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Watford form and stats
Overall Championship results at home this season for Watford are 6-2-4 (wins-draws-losses).
The club members hope that Watford will fight back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-2 away defeat in the FA Cup fixture against Reading.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Norwich City and winning 1-0.The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Watford's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 4 games, won 2 matches, drawn 1 and lost 1.
It should be added that a peek at the 12 most recent league matches shows that 11 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored).
The Watford fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 17 in 12 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches.
Blackpool form and stats
As the visiting team in Championship matches, Blackpool have produced an overall stat of 3-5-5 so far. Visiting Blackpool has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.
The supporters enjoyed Blackpool's previous game versus Nottingham Forest, a FA Cup win (4-1) played at home. Attacker Poveda got a player rating of 9.04 in the game. "Man of the match" Poveda scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times.
Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Sunderland in the Championship.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Blackpool playing away, we found 4 games. Results were 0 away wins, 3 draws and 1 home win.
Blackpool have scored 14 goals on their travels this season, from 13 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Blackpool have seen the ball go into their own net 19 times on the road. Blackpool has visited these top teams four times, and 3 of 4 has ended with 2 goals or more!
Head 2 Head
Here's the final score when the teams met previously this season; Blackpool - Watford 3-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Watford victories, two draws and five Blackpool wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Yates 9 goals |   J. Junqueira de Jesus 8 goals |  I. Sarr 6 goals |
Watford missing players
Blackpool missing players
| Watford | Blackpool | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 26 | 12 | 0 | Played | P | 4 | 13 | 26 |
| 11 | 6 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| 31 | 17 | 0 | Scored | S | 7 | 14 | 28 |
| 28 | 12 | 0 | Conceded | C | 8 | 19 | 38 |
| 88% | 92% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 92% | 92% |
| 69% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 69% | 62% |
| 42% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 46% | 46% |
| 23% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 15% | 23% |
| 4% | 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 15% | 15% |
| 38% | 42% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 54% | 50% |
| 42% | 42% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 23% | 19% |
| 31% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 31% | 38% |
| 5 | 4.8 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 4.8 | 4.5 |
| 5.6 | 5.4 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 6.4 | 6.3 |
| 2 | 2.1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.5 | 2.2 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 6 | 7 |
| 11.5 | 11.9 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 9.1 | 10.3 |
| 3.8 | 4.2 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 2.8 | 3 |
| 31% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 41% | 39% | 35% |
| 12.1 | 12 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.8 | 14.8 | 14.6 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.2 | 5 | 4.8 |
- Watford have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
| 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 | 26 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 52 | 25 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 29 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 14 | 27 | 56 |
| 2 | Sheffield United | 26 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 44 | 23 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 21 | 51 |
| 3 | Blackburn Rovers | 26 | 14 | 0 | 12 | 30 | 30 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 17 | 0 | 42 |
| 4 | Watford | 26 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 31 | 28 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 3 | 40 |
| 5 | Middlesbrough | 26 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 41 | 33 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 21 | 8 | 39 |
| 6 | Millwall | 25 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 32 | 26 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 6 | 39 |
| 7 | Luton Town | 25 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 31 | 26 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 39 |
| 8 | Sunderland | 26 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 38 | 29 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 16 | 9 | 38 |
| 9 | West Bromwich Albion | 26 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 34 | 26 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 38 |
| 10 | Preston North End | 26 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 24 | 26 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 12 | -2 | 37 |
| 11 | Norwich City | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 32 | 29 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 36 |
| 12 | Queens Park Rangers | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 28 | 31 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 14 | -3 | 36 |
| 13 | Reading | 26 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 29 | 36 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 24 | -7 | 36 |
| 14 | Coventry City | 25 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 27 | 26 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 1 | 35 |
| 15 | Swansea City | 26 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 36 | 36 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 0 | 35 |
| 16 | Hull City | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 32 | 42 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 20 | -10 | 33 |
| 17 | Birmingham City | 26 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 27 | 29 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 13 | -2 | 32 |
| 18 | Stoke City | 26 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 28 | 34 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 16 | -6 | 30 |
| 19 | Bristol City | 26 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 32 | 35 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 21 | -3 | 29 |
| 20 | Cardiff City | 26 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 20 | 29 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 18 | -9 | 28 |
| 21 | Rotherham United | 26 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 28 | 39 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 22 | -11 | 27 |
| 22 | Blackpool | 26 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 28 | 38 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 19 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 19 | -10 | 26 |
| 23 | Huddersfield Town | 25 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 24 | 32 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 18 | -8 | 25 |
| 24 | Wigan Athletic | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 26 | 46 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 28 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 18 | -20 | 24 |
