Watford vs Aston Villa
English Premier League
Date: 28 December 2019, Saturday.
Kick-off at 15:00 UK/ 16:00 Central European Time
Venue: Vicarage Road.
Two teams inside the Premier League relegation zone will lock horns on Saturday afternoon as Watford welcome Aston Villa for what should be a fascinating affair.
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Watford are currently 19th in the table with 13 points, five points behind 18th-placed Villa, who picked up a morale-boosting 1-0 victory over fellow strugglers Norwich on Thursday afternoon.
Villa, meanwhile, without John McGinn and Tyrone Mings, kept themselves within touching distance of safety after securing an imperative win on Boxing Day - just as it looked like they were going to slump down to the foot of the table.
Watford vs Aston Villa Prediction Line-Ups
Watford vs Aston Villa Head-to-head
Teams Watford Aston Villa played so far 7 matches.
Watford won 2 direct matches. Aston Villa won 3 matches. 2 matches ended in a draw. On average in direct matches both teams scored a 2.43 goals per Match.
Watford vs Aston Villa Prediction
Watford in actual season average scored 0.88 goals per match. In 9 (75.00%) matches played at home was total goals (team and opponent) Over 1.5 goals. In 8 (66.67%) matches in season 2019 played at home was total goals (team and opponent) Over 2.5 goals.
Aston Villa average scored 2.04 goals per match in season 2019. In 14 (87.50%) matches played away was total goals (team and opponent) Over 1.5 goals. In 13 (81.25%) matches played away team was total goals (team and opponent) Over 2.5 goals.
Team news
Watford's Abdoulaye Doucoure returns from a one-match suspension after picking up five yellow cards.
Jose Holebas, Tom Cleverley, Daryl Janmaat, Sebastian Prodl and Danny Welbeck all remain sidelined for the Hornets.
Tyrone Mings and Keinan Davis (both hamstring) will continue to be monitored by the Aston Villa medical team while John McGinn (ankle) is ruled out.
Match officials
Referee: Simon Hooper. Assistants: Simon Bennett, Derek Eaton. Fourth official: Stephen Martin. VAR: Jonathan Moss. Assistant VAR: Neil Davies.