Football betting preview: Brentford vs Watford

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Competition: England Premier League
Competition: Fri 10.December
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Brentford Community Stadium (17250 seats)

The home supporters hope for a win in this fixture, as the home advantage might do the trick against a struggling visitor. Brentford are in 12th spot while the guesting Watford fret at 17th.

Insights:
  • Brentford haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Watford have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Premier League

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Brentford form and stats

Brentford's struggle is real here at Brentford Community Stadium with only 7 points collected from 7 Premier League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-1-4.

Brentford drew their last game, 2-2 away at Leeds United (placed 14th). The striker Bryan Mbeumo outshone all the other footballers in that match and received a match rating of 7.33 out of 10. Mbeumo served one assist and hit one key pass.

Prior to that, an away loss at Tottenham Hotspur.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Brentford handle that role? We have found nine games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are four wins, four draws and one defeat.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Brentford, as the Premier League home game vs Manchester United is only four days away.

Brentford has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 7 matches. On the other hand, Brentford have conceded 9 goals.

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Watford form and stats

There's been little loot from Watford's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 7 away games in the Premier League. Watford only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 0 draws. Three has not been a lucky number for Watford as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Manchester United match.

The manager C. Ranieri was unhappy after their last game, a Premier League match played at their home ground Vicarage Road. Watford suffered a 1-3 loss to Manchester City (placed 1st). Watford keeper Daniel Bachmann enjoyed a grand day vs Manchester City, but in spite of pulling off nine saves the loss could not be stopped. Goalkeeper Daniel Bachmann got the top player rating of the team with 8.21/10. Bachmann stopped the opponent with nine saves.

A loss against Chelsea was the result prior to that, in a home game.

Watford are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, two draws and one defeat. From a total of four matches.

Watford find the net regularly in their away games. 10 goals from 7 away fixtures in the league. Watford have conceded 12 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last six matches): Brentford two wins, one draw and Watford three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

WatfordE. Dennis
E. Dennis
6 goals
WatfordI. Sarr
I. Sarr
5 goals
WatfordJ. King
J. King
5 goals

Brentford missing players

Watford missing players

Brentford Watford
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
15 7 2 Played P 3 7 15
4 2 1 Won W 0 2 4
5 1 0 Drew D 0 0 1
6 4 1 Lost L 3 5 10
19 8 2 Scored S 2 10 20
21 9 2 Conceded C 7 12 29
93% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
73% 57% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 57% 73%
47% 43% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 43% 53%
27% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 43% 47%
13% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 29% 33%
53% 43% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 43% 53%
27% 29% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
27% 29% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 57% 47%
 
3.5 4 4.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.3 4.1 4.5
5.3 4.7 2.5 Corners against (avg) C A 6.3 6 6.1
1.9 1.7 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 2 2.3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
11.3 12.6 13.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11 11.4 11.7
3.5 4 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 3.9 4.3
37% 29% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 37% 31%
 
12.7 11.9 12.5 Shots against (avg) S A 14.7 15.4 15.2
4.7 4.4 5.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.3 4.6 4.9
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Brentford haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Watford have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Watford have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Premier League
  • Watford have the most conceded goals in the first half (16) in Premier League
  • Watford haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 15 11 2 2 32 9 7 5 1 1 17 3 8 6 1 1 15 6 23 35
2 Liverpool 15 10 4 1 44 12 7 4 3 0 18 5 8 6 1 1 26 7 32 34
3 Chelsea 15 10 3 2 35 9 7 4 2 1 18 4 8 6 1 1 17 5 26 33
4 West Ham United 15 8 3 4 28 19 8 4 2 2 16 12 7 4 1 2 12 7 9 27
5 Tottenham Hotspur 14 8 1 5 16 17 8 6 0 2 11 8 6 2 1 3 5 9 -1 25
6 Manchester United 15 7 3 5 25 24 8 4 1 3 14 13 7 3 2 2 11 11 1 24
7 Arsenal 14 7 2 5 17 20 7 5 1 1 12 6 7 2 1 4 5 14 -3 23
8 Wolverhampton Wanderers 15 6 3 6 12 13 8 3 1 4 5 7 7 3 2 2 7 6 -1 21
9 Brighton & Hove Albion 15 4 8 3 14 16 7 2 3 2 6 8 8 2 5 1 8 8 -2 20
10 Aston Villa 15 6 1 8 21 24 8 4 1 3 14 11 7 2 0 5 7 13 -3 19
11 Leicester City 15 5 4 6 23 27 7 3 1 3 11 12 8 2 3 3 12 15 -4 19
12 Brentford 15 4 5 6 19 21 7 2 1 4 8 9 8 2 4 2 11 12 -2 17
13 Crystal Palace 15 3 7 5 19 21 7 2 4 1 10 6 8 1 3 4 9 15 -2 16
14 Leeds United 15 3 7 5 15 22 8 2 4 2 9 11 7 1 3 3 6 11 -7 16
15 Southampton 15 3 7 5 14 21 8 2 5 1 8 7 7 1 2 4 6 14 -7 16
16 Everton 14 4 3 7 17 24 7 3 1 3 11 12 7 1 2 4 6 12 -7 15
17 Watford 15 4 1 10 20 29 8 2 1 5 10 17 7 2 0 5 10 12 -9 13
18 Burnley 14 1 7 6 14 21 6 1 3 2 8 8 8 0 4 4 6 13 -7 10
19 Newcastle United 15 1 7 7 17 30 8 1 4 3 12 17 7 0 3 4 5 13 -13 10
20 Norwich City 15 2 4 9 8 31 7 1 2 4 5 11 8 1 2 5 3 20 -23 10

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