This match involves two teams residing in the lower section of the Premier League, Watford holding 19th spot and Burnley lying 17th. A good chance for one of the teams to improve their position.
- Watford is in the worst form (1-0-5)
- Burnley have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Both teams have had sufficient rest since their previous effort on the pitch. Let's look for an animated match!
Watford form and stats
With 2 Premier League wins, 1 draw and 13 defeats from their home games, Watford are certainly not brimming with confidence. With ten home Premier League games in a row without a win, the Watford fans could feel they are not getting value for their money. It remains to be seen whether this unfortunate streak, which started after the Manchester United game long ago, can be stopped today.
Watford lost their last game at Manchester City (placed 1st) after a 1-5 scoreline. As you see from the result above, Watford suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one. The attacker Dennis won the honour of being "man of the match" for Watford with the rating of 7.11/10. Dennis served one assist and hit two key passes.
Before that game, the home loss against Brentford with the scoreline 1-2.This is expected to be a close game, with Watford perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Watford as a small favourite), we find six games. Watford has won three of these, drawn two and lost one.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Watford here at Vicarage Road in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (15 from 16 games). Watford have conceded 39 goals in these home games, a significant number.
Burnley form and stats
There's been little loot from Burnley's travels as they have only collected 10 points from 16 away games in the Premier League. Burnley only have 1 win to counter their 8 defeats and 7 draws.
The Burnley goalkeeper Nick Pope is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 196 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Burnley won their last game, 1-0 versus Wolverhampton Wanderers played at home. Pope was the team player of the game with the player rating of 7.94. The agile goalkeeper Pope topped it up with a clean sheet.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Southampton.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Burnley in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Burnley, three draws and two defeats.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Burnley as they have only managed to score 13 times from 16 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Burnley have conceded 25 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The fixture history shows this score when the squads played each other earlier this season; Burnley - Watford 0-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - three - five (Watford wins - draws - Burnley wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  E. Dennis 10 goals |   G. Cornet 7 goals |  I. Sarr 5 goals |
Watford missing players
Burnley missing players
| Watford | Burnley | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 33 | 16 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 16 | 33 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| 23 | 13 | 3 | Lost | L | 3 | 8 | 14 |
| 31 | 15 | 4 | Scored | S | 3 | 13 | 29 |
| 67 | 39 | 12 | Conceded | C | 9 | 25 | 45 |
| 94% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | 85% |
| 73% | 88% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 81% | 70% |
| 55% | 69% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 38% | 33% |
| 36% | 44% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 31% | 27% |
| 27% | 38% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 48% | 56% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 50% | 42% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 19% | 27% |
| 48% | 44% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 44% | 45% |
| 4.2 | 4.4 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.2 | 4.8 |
| 6.1 | 5.5 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 7.4 | 7 |
| 1.8 | 2.1 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10.8 | 11.8 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 9.5 | 10.9 |
| 3.5 | 3.9 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
| 26% | 24% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 19% | 28% | 27% |
| 14.7 | 13.8 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16.5 | 18.1 | 16 |
| 4.8 | 5.4 | 3.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4.9 | 4.5 |
- Burnley have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Watford have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Watford have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Watford have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Watford have the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Premier League
- Watford have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Premier League
- Watford have the fewest points (7) at home in Premier League
- Watford have the most conceded goals (39) at home in Premier League
- Watford have the most conceded goals in the first half (33) in Premier League
- Watford have the the worst goal difference (-24) at home in Premier League
- Watford haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Watford is in the worst form (1-0-5)
| 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 | 33 | 25 | 5 | 3 | 80 | 21 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 50 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 8 | 59 | 80 |
| 2 | Liverpool | 33 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 85 | 22 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 45 | 7 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 40 | 15 | 63 | 79 |
| 3 | Chelsea | 32 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 67 | 27 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 32 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 35 | 9 | 40 | 65 |
| 4 | Arsenal | 33 | 19 | 3 | 11 | 52 | 40 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 28 | 15 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 25 | 12 | 60 |
| 5 | Tottenham Hotspur | 33 | 18 | 4 | 11 | 56 | 38 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 31 | 18 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 25 | 20 | 18 | 58 |
| 6 | Manchester United | 34 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 53 | 51 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 28 | 21 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 25 | 30 | 2 | 54 |
| 7 | West Ham United | 34 | 15 | 7 | 12 | 52 | 44 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 30 | 22 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 52 |
| 8 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 33 | 15 | 4 | 14 | 33 | 29 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 16 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 49 |
| 9 | Newcastle United | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 40 | 55 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 26 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 29 | -15 | 43 |
| 10 | Leicester City | 32 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 47 | 51 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 20 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 21 | 31 | -4 | 42 |
| 11 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 34 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 31 | 42 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 22 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 20 | -11 | 41 |
| 12 | Brentford | 34 | 11 | 7 | 16 | 41 | 49 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 19 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 23 | 30 | -8 | 40 |
| 13 | Southampton | 34 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 40 | 56 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 19 | 36 | -16 | 40 |
| 14 | Crystal Palace | 32 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 43 | 41 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 25 | 17 | 16 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 24 | 2 | 37 |
| 15 | Aston Villa | 32 | 11 | 4 | 17 | 42 | 46 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 24 | 25 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 18 | 21 | -4 | 37 |
| 16 | Leeds United | 32 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 38 | 68 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 30 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 38 | -30 | 33 |
| 17 | Burnley | 33 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 29 | 45 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 16 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 25 | -16 | 31 |
| 18 | Everton | 32 | 8 | 5 | 19 | 34 | 55 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 20 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 35 | -21 | 29 |
| 19 | Watford | 33 | 6 | 4 | 23 | 31 | 67 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 15 | 39 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 28 | -36 | 22 |
| 20 | Norwich City | 33 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 22 | 69 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 34 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 35 | -47 | 21 |
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