Betting guide: Chelsea favourite to beat Watford at Stamford Bridge

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Competition: England Premier League
Date: Sun 05.May
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stamford Bridge (41841 seats)

Chelsea perform at a high level so far being 4th in the table. Watford can look both up and down from their 10th position.

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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Chelsea form and stats

Chelsea are steadily winning games and points here at Stamford Bridge. 11 wins, 6 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 18 games.

Chelsea drew their last game, 1-1 away at Manchester United. Before that, Chelsea drew at home versus Burnley.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Chelsea home games with this odds we find 17 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 10 wins, 5 draws and 2 defeats. Looking at the victories, 4 matches were won by at least two goals.

Goals decide football matches and Chelsea are scoring many of them at home; 36 on target from 18 matches. From these home matches, Chelsea have conceded only 12 goals.

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Watford form and stats

6-5-7 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Watford in their matches away.

The manager Javi Gracia was unhappy after their last game, a Premier League match played at their home ground Stamford Bridge. Watford suffered a 1-2 loss to Wolverhampton Wanderers. Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Southampton.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Watford played away with similar odds. This revealed four games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 0 were draws and the home team won as expected 4 times.

Watford are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 26 away goals from 18 games. In the opposite end, Watford have conceded 28 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Watford - Chelsea 1-2, played this season. Last ten meetings between the teams: Chelsea won 7, Watford won 1 and 2 draws.

Top Goalscorers

E. Hazard
16 goals / 13 assists
T. Deeney
9 goals / 5 assists
Deulofeu
9 goals / 5 assists

Chelsea missing players

Watford missing players

Chelsea Watford
Total Home Home vs mid Statistic Away vs top Away Total
36 18 6 Played 5 18 36
20 11 3 Won 0 6 14
8 6 2 Drew 0 5 8
8 1 1 Lost 5 7 14
60 36 8 Scored 3 26 51
39 12 4 Conceded 14 28 52
92% 89% 83% Over 0.5 100% 94% 94%
86% 83% 67% Over 1.5 100% 89% 86%
56% 44% 33% Over 2.5 80% 56% 61%
28% 33% 17% Over 3.5 40% 33% 25%
11% 17% 0% Over 4.5 20% 17% 14%
44% 44% 50% BTTS 60% 61% 61%
39% 50% 33% Clean Sheets 0% 17% 19%
25% 17% 33% Failed To Score 40% 28% 25%
 
5.7 6.3 7.7 Corners For (avg) 4.2 4.4 4.6
3.6 3.7 3.5 Corners Against (avg) 6.6 6.2 5.6
1.3 1.1 1.3 Yellow Cards (avg) 2.2 2.1 2.1
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 1 3

Chelsea
All Champions League Community Shield International Champions Cup Europa League Premier League Club Friendlies Carabao Cup FA Cup
All Home Away
11-04-19 EL Slavia Praha 0 - 1 Chelsea
14-04-19 PL Liverpool 2 - 0 Chelsea
18-04-19 EL Chelsea 4 - 3 Slavia Praha
22-04-19 PL Chelsea 2 - 2 Burnley
28-04-19 PL Manchester United 1 - 1 Chelsea
02-05-19 EL Eintracht Frankfurt 19:00 Chelsea
05-05-19 PL Chelsea 13:00 Watford
09-05-19 EL Chelsea 19:00 Eintracht Frankfurt
12-05-19 PL Leicester City 14:00 Chelsea
16-05-19 CF New England - Chelsea
Watford
All Premier League Club Friendlies FA Cup Carabao Cup
All Home Away
30-03-19 PL Manchester United 2 - 1 Watford
02-04-19 PL Watford 4 - 1 Fulham
07-04-19 FAC Watford 2 - 2 Wolverhampton Wanderers
15-04-19 PL Watford 0 - 1 Arsenal
20-04-19 PL Huddersfield Town 1 - 2 Watford
23-04-19 PL Watford 1 - 1 Southampton
27-04-19 PL Watford 1 - 2 Wolverhampton Wanderers
05-05-19 PL Chelsea 13:00 Watford
12-05-19 PL Watford 14:00 West Ham United
18-05-19 FAC Manchester City 16:00 Watford

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Manchester City 36 30 2 4 90 22 18 17 0 1 56 12 18 13 2 3 34 10 68 92
2 Liverpool 36 28 7 1 84 20 18 16 2 0 53 10 18 12 5 1 31 10 64 91
3 Tottenham Hotspur 36 23 1 12 65 36 18 12 1 5 32 14 18 11 0 7 33 22 29 70
4 Chelsea 36 20 8 8 60 39 18 11 6 1 36 12 18 9 2 7 24 27 21 68
5 Arsenal 36 20 6 10 69 49 18 14 2 2 41 15 18 6 4 8 28 34 20 66
6 Manchester United 36 19 8 9 64 51 18 10 6 2 33 23 18 9 2 7 31 28 13 65
7 Wolverhampton Wanderers 36 15 9 12 46 44 18 9 4 5 27 21 18 6 5 7 19 23 2 54
8 Leicester City 36 15 6 15 51 47 18 8 2 8 24 20 18 7 4 7 27 27 4 51
9 Everton 36 14 8 14 50 44 18 9 4 5 28 21 18 5 4 9 22 23 6 50
10 Watford 36 14 8 14 51 52 18 8 3 7 25 24 18 6 5 7 26 28 -1 50
11 West Ham United 36 13 7 16 45 54 18 8 4 6 29 27 18 5 3 10 16 27 -9 46
12 Crystal Palace 36 12 7 17 43 48 18 4 5 9 14 20 18 8 2 8 29 28 -5 43
13 Newcastle United 36 11 9 16 36 45 18 8 1 9 22 22 18 3 8 7 14 23 -9 42
14 AFC Bournemouth 36 12 6 18 52 65 18 7 5 6 29 25 18 5 1 12 23 40 -13 42
15 Burnley 36 11 7 18 44 63 18 7 2 9 23 29 18 4 5 9 21 34 -19 40
16 Southampton 36 9 11 16 44 61 18 5 7 6 26 29 18 4 4 10 18 32 -17 38
17 Brighton & Hove Albion 36 9 8 19 33 55 18 6 5 7 18 24 18 3 3 12 15 31 -22 35
18 Cardiff City 36 9 4 23 30 66 18 6 2 10 19 35 18 3 2 13 11 31 -36 31
19 Fulham 36 7 5 24 34 76 18 6 3 9 22 32 18 1 2 15 12 44 -42 26
20 Huddersfield Town 36 3 5 28 20 74 18 2 2 14 9 30 18 1 3 14 11 44 -54 14

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