Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Leicester City & Watford face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the FA Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Leicester City and Watford 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.
Leicester City form and stats
5-1-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Premier League numbers at home for Leicester City so far this season.
Leicester City's last game was hosting Liverpool and winning 1-0. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of Rodgers when Lookman scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 56th minute. Goalkeeper Schmeichel got the top rating on the team in that game; 8.43 out of ten. Schmeichel saved a penalty, stopped the opponent with four saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.
Prior to that, an away loss at Manchester City in the Premier League.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Leicester as they are travelling to their away game against Everton in the Premier League. That match is three days after this one.
Leicester have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at King Power Stadium with 16 goals in 9 league matches. Leicester's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 12 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Watford form and stats
Watford was sent out of FA Cup in the 3rd round last season.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Watford so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 2-0-6 (win-draw-lose).
Watford failed to get anything from their last game, a Premier League home match vs Tottenham Hotspur that ended with defeat 0-1. It is probably bad news for Watford that their goalkeeper Bachmann made nine saves in the Tottenham Hotspur fixture, but still couldn't save them from a defeat. Watford were so close to getting something from the game against Tottenham Hotspur, but ended up with egg all over their face after conceding the deciding goal six minutes into overtime. Goalkeeper Bachmann got the top player rating of the team with 8.34/10. Bachmann stopped the opponent with nine saves.
The game before that, in the Premier League, was lost at home, a 1-4 defeat against West Ham United.Watford have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 8 league away games 11 goals have been scored. In the opposite end, Watford have conceded 14 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Leicester six wins, one draw and Watford three victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Vardy 9 goals |   E. Dennis 8 goals |  J. Maddison 5 goals |
Leicester City missing players
Watford missing players
| Leicester City | Watford | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Won | W | 2 | 6 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 7 | 16 | ||
| 48 | 23 | Scored | S | 13 | 29 | ||
| 45 | 18 | Conceded | C | 18 | 47 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 88% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 70% | 72% | ||
| 72% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 56% | ||
| 52% | 58% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 24% | ||
| 72% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 60% | ||
| 12% | 17% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 8% | ||
| 16% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 36% | ||
| 5 | 5.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.4 | ||
| 6.2 | 6.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.9 | 6.1 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.7 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 12.3 | 12.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.4 | 11.1 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 4 | ||
| 41% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 29% | ||
| 14.6 | 14.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.5 | 14 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 5.1 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Manchester City | 21 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 53 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 7 | 40 | 53 |
| 2 | Chelsea | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 43 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 29 | 42 |
| 3 | Liverpool | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 50 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 10 | 34 | 41 |
| 4 | Arsenal | 20 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 33 | 25 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 8 | 35 |
| 5 | West Ham United | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 37 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 10 | 34 |
| 6 | Tottenham Hotspur | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 20 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 33 |
| 7 | Manchester United | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 30 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 31 |
| 8 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | -1 | 25 |
| 9 | Leicester City | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 31 | 33 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 21 | -2 | 25 |
| 10 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 18 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 17 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 9 | -1 | 24 |
| 11 | Crystal Palace | 20 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 29 | 30 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 18 | -1 | 23 |
| 12 | Aston Villa | 18 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 24 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 14 | -4 | 22 |
| 13 | Southampton | 19 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 20 | 29 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 21 | -9 | 21 |
| 14 | Brentford | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 21 | 25 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 14 | -4 | 20 |
| 15 | Everton | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 29 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 16 | -8 | 19 |
| 16 | Leeds United | 18 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 36 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 21 | -18 | 16 |
| 17 | Watford | 18 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 22 | 36 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 14 | -14 | 13 |
| 18 | Burnley | 16 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 16 | -9 | 11 |
| 19 | Newcastle United | 19 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 42 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 20 | -23 | 11 |
| 20 | Norwich City | 19 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 42 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 23 | -34 | 10 |
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