Watford — Stoke City 1:2, 12 September: match result

match finished Championship · Matchday 7 Saturday 12 September · 14:00 UTC

Watford 17th · 8 pts LL

1 : 2 1st half 0:1

Stoke City 13th · 10 pts WW

Vicarage Road · referee L. Smith

Match predictionBold

Neither team to score 3+

76%

Prediction landed. We predicted “Neither team to score 3+”, and the match finished 1:2.

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

Watford 31% draw 26% Stoke City 43%

The model was right

The most likely outcome was Stoke City win, and the match finished 1:2. Fans backed Stoke City win — they got it right.

fans 31 votes

Watford 32% draw 16% Stoke City 52%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

I. Bravo 19'

D. Soumare 33'

O. H. Traore for J. Zemura 42'

J. McGlynn 0-1 45+4'

E. Bocat assist: L. Cisse 0-2 57'

R. Vata for S. Mavididi 58'

A. Nabizada for O. Maamma 58'

G. Hirst for L. Cisse 65'

L. Kjerrumgaard for I. Bravo 69'

L. Bombino for E. Bocat 80'

G. Hirst 82'

A. Nabizada assist: E. Kayembe 1-2 90+1'

A. Nabizada 90+3'

B. Pearson for J. McGlynn 90'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Watford 4-2-3-1 · Alessio Dionisi 3-4-2-1 · Mark Robins Stoke City

Federico Ravaglia  
Kévin Keben Biakolo  6 Matthew Pollock  3 Soumaila Coulibaly  33 Jordan Zemura  
Edo Kayembe  5 Hector Kyprianou  
Othmane Maamma  17 Iker Bravo  45 Stephy Mavididi  
Mamadou Doumbia  

Lamine Cissé  
Jack McGlynn  13 Justin Devenny  
Ben Johnson  27 Djibril Soumaré  8 Ethan Galbraith  17 Eric Bocat  
Ben Wilmot  40 Maksym Talovierov  5 Luke Graham  
Viktor Johansson  

Watford bench

56Albert Eames
21Amin Nabizada
26Daniel Bachmann
9Luca Kjerrumgaard
18Michail Antonio
23Omar Haktab Traore
11Rocco Vata
24Sam Walker

Stoke City bench

23Ben Gibson
4Ben Pearson
43Freddie Anderson
15George Hirst
24Joshua Griffiths
21Luca Bombino
42Million Manhoef
9Róbert Boženík
19Tomáš Rigo

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

39%Possession61%

4Shots17

0Shots on target5

2Shots off target8

2Blocked shots4

3Shots inside box10

1Shots outside box7

101Attacks92

46Dangerous attacks45

4Corners8

0Offsides3

11Fouls5

1Yellow cards2

3Saves0

335Passes518

268Accurate passes458

0Free kicks0

0Throw-ins0

0Goal kicks0

0Penalties0

Watford

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

How the match went

text generated from our data

Watford and Stoke City met on matchday 7 of the Championship on 12 September at Vicarage Road. Final score — 1:2.

Watford sit 17th on 8 points after 2 matches (0 wins, 0 draws, 2 losses). Stoke City sit 13th on 10 points after 2 matches (2 wins, 0 draws, 0 losses), won 2 matches in a row.

Season form

all competitions of the season

Watford last five Stoke City

LL form WW

2 Matches 2

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

1 — 3 Scored — conceded 4 — 2

0 Points per game 3

0.5 Goals scored per game 2

0 Clean sheets 0

1 Failed to score 0

winless in 2 Current streak unbeaten in 2

Watford at home: 1 match, 0 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss, goals 1—2, 0 points per match.

Stoke City away: 1 match, 1 win, 0 draws, 0 losses, goals 2—1, 3 points per match.

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
6	Queens Park Rangers	8	3	4	1	10—7	13
7	Stoke City	8	4	1	3	13—12	13
8	Bristol City	8	4	1	3	11—12	13
…
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

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