Bristol City — Watford 1:0, 18 September: match result

match finished Championship · Matchday 8 Friday 18 September · 19:00 UTC

Bristol City 8th · 13 pts WLL

1 : 0 1st half 1:0

Watford 19th · 8 pts LL

Ashton Gate Stadium · referee O. Langford

Match predictionValue

Between 1 and 4 goals

84% · Bristol City sit 11 places higher in the table

Prediction landed. We predicted “Between 1 and 4 goals”, and the match finished 1:0.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Bristol City 35% draw 27% Watford 38%

The model was wrong

The most likely outcome was Watford win, and the match finished 1:0. Fans backed Watford win — they got it wrong.

fans 43 votes

Bristol City 35% draw 16% Watford 49%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

M. Doumbia 21'

A. Nabizada 25'

D. Ballard assist: R. Cardines 1-0 31'

B. Mlacic 54'

J. Knight 54'

E. Kayembe 54'

J. Williams 54'

A. Eames for B. Mlacic 62'

O. Maamma for R. Vata 62'

S. Mavididi for A. Nabizada 62'

J. Wallace for Y. Hirakawa 63'

L. Tolaj for D. Ballard 63'

M. Boadu for M. Doumbia 70'

C. Pring for S. Greenwood 70'

M. Pollock 81'

G. Yah for A. Randell 88'

L. Eissat for N. Eile 88'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Bristol City 4-2-3-1 · Roy Hodgson 3-4-1-2 · Alessio Dionisi Watford

Sam Tickle  
George Tanner  38 Noah Eile  5 Robert Atkinson  21 Rio Cardines  
Joe Williams  4 Adam Randell  
Yu Hirakawa  12 Jason Knight  20 Sam Greenwood  
Dominic Ballard  

Mamadou Doumbia  9 Luca Kjerrumgaard  
Iker Bravo  
Rocco Vata  5 Hector Kyprianou  39 Edo Kayembe  21 Amin Nabizada  
Kévin Keben Biakolo  6 Matthew Pollock  29 Branimir Mlačić  
Federico Ravaglia  

Bristol City bench

40Brad Collins
3Cameron Pring
45Elijah Adebayo
27Gibson Yah
17Jed Wallace
2Lisav Naif Eissat
9Lorent Tolaj
10Scott Twine
14Tomi Horvat

Watford bench

56Albert Eames
26Daniel Bachmann
43Jack Grieves
53James Clarridge
10Myron Boadu
19Nikoloz Chikovani
7Othmane Maamma
24Sam Walker
45Stephy Mavididi

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

36%Possession64%

17Shots10

7Shots on target2

5Shots off target3

5Blocked shots5

12Shots inside box3

5Shots outside box7

68Attacks79

38Dangerous attacks31

2Corners5

3Offsides0

11Fouls15

2Yellow cards5

2Saves6

269Passes489

207Accurate passes418

0Free kicks0

0Throw-ins0

0Goal kicks0

0Penalties0

Bristol City

WatfordThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Bristol City and Watford met on matchday 8 of the Championship on 18 September at Ashton Gate Stadium. Final score — 1:0.

Bristol City sit 8th on 13 points after 3 matches (1 win, 0 draws, 2 losses). Watford sit 19th on 8 points after 2 matches (0 wins, 0 draws, 2 losses).

Season form

all competitions of the season

Bristol City last five Watford

WLL form LL

3 Matches 2

1 — 0 — 2 Wins — draws — defeats 0 — 0 — 2

2 — 5 Scored — conceded 1 — 3

1 Points per game 0

0.67 Goals scored per game 0.5

1 Clean sheets 0

1 Failed to score 1

unbeaten in 1 Current streak winless in 2

Bristol City at home: 2 matches, 1 win, 0 draws, 1 loss, goals 1—1, 1.5 points per match.

Watford away: 1 match, 0 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss, goals 0—1, 0 points per match.

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
7	Stoke City	8	4	1	3	13—12	13
8	Bristol City	8	4	1	3	11—12	13
9	Charlton Athletic	8	3	3	2	7—10	12
…
18	Portsmouth	7	2	2	3	9—10	8
19	Watford	8	2	2	4	7—10	8
20	Cardiff City	8	1	4	3	10—12	7

Full Championship table