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Watford v Southampton : Championship match betting preview, prediction and odds

Sun 16th Aug, 13:30 BST, Vicarage Road, Watford

the Vicarage Road crowd welcome Southampton's supporters on Sunday afternoon, as Alessio Dionisi's Watford take on 's charges in the Championship. Stats for our tip of are shown below, including head-to-head history. Flipping the market using the tabs below changes all statistics and the odds from leading bookmakers, allowing you do find the bet that suits you best.

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Best Tip: Over 1.5 goals

The stats suggest there's no obvious winner in this fixture, but the evidence does point towards the conclusion that Watford and Southampton will find the net twice at least between them. That has been the case when they've gone head-to-head in years gone by, and neither Alessio Dionisi or has suffered the frustration of many 0-0s recently either. The bookies are predicting over 1.5 goals too, with odds of 1.22 equating to roughly a 80% probability.

An away win looks like the most likely outcome in the win/draw/win market, with our predictive algorithm suggesting there’s a 46% chance of Southampton coming away with a win.

Checkout the hundreds of tips picked but our top win/draw/win tipsters

Predictions	Bet365	Coral
Watford 30%	11/5	23/10 2%
Draw 24%	5/2	13/5
Southampton 46%	21/20	11/10
Draw 1-1 11%	6/1	5/1
Southampton 2-1 9%	8/1	7/1
Southampton 1-0 8%	8/1	7/1 7%
Watford 2-1 7%	11/1	9/1
Southampton 2-0 7%	10/1	17/2
Watford 1-0 6%	11/1	9/1 5%
Draw 2-2 6%	12/1	9/1 9%
Southampton 3-1 5%	14/1	12/1
Draw 0-0 5%	12/1	11/1
Watford 2-0 4%	18/1	14/1 15%
Southampton 3-0 4%	18/1	14/1
Southampton 3-2 3%	22/1	16/1 11%
Watford 3-1 3%	22/1	18/1
Watford 3-2 3%	28/1	22/1
Southampton 4-1 2%	33/1	22/1
Over 2.5 Goals 58%	8/11	8/11 1%
Under 2.5 Goals 42%	11/10	1/1 3%
Home 1st Goal 46%	6/5	6/5
Away 1st Goal 51%	8/11	3/4
No 1st Goal 3%	12/1	11/1 9%
BTTS - Yes 60%	8/13	8/13 2%
BTTS - No 40%	6/5	6/5 2%
BTTS - Home Win 16%	5/1	9/2
BTTS - Draw 19%	7/2	3/1 5%
BTTS - Away Win 25%	3/1	11/4 1%
Home/draw 54%	8/11	7/10
Away/draw 70%	4/11	1/3
Home/away 76%	2/7	2/7
Over 1.5 Goals 80%	2/9	2/9
Under 1.5 Goals 20%	10/3	3/1 5%
Over 3.5 Goals 35%	7/4	7/4 5%
Under 3.5 Goals 65%	4/9	2/5 3%
Over 4.5 Goals 19%	4/1	4/1 9%
Under 4.5 Goals 81%	1/6	1/7 1%
Over 5.5 Goals 8%	10/1	9/1 9%
Under 5.5 Goals 92%	1/20	1/25 1%
Over 0.5 Goals 95%	1/25	1/40 1%
Under 0.5 Goals 5%	12/1	11/1
Home DNB 46%	11/8	11/8
Away DNB 63%	8/15	8/15
Watford win to nil 13%	11/2	-
Southampton win to nil 22%	3/1	-
Watford / Watford 15%	9/2	4/1 4%
Watford / Southampton 4%	22/1	18/1
Watford / Draw 6%	14/1	10/1 8%
Draw / Watford 11%	13/2	13/2
Draw / Southampton 15%	9/2	9/2
Draw / Draw 14%	5/1	9/2
Southampton / Watford 3%	28/1	22/1
Southampton / Southampton 25%	9/4	21/10
Southampton / Draw 7%	12/1	10/1

Win / draw / win Championship table

BTTS yes BTTS no BTTS yes BTTS no Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Won Draw Lost Over 0.5 Under 0.5 Over 1.5 Under 1.5 Over 2.5 Under 2.5 Over 3.5 Under 3.5 Over 4.5 Under 4.5 Over 5.5 Under 5.5 For 0-0 Against Won Draw Lost	Watford Southampton
Results by League Table

	TEAM	HOME	AWAY	HOME	AWAY
1	West Ham	Aug 29	Apr 17	Dec 29	Oct 24
2	Blackburn	Nov 25	May 1	Dec 19	Apr 3
3	Charlton	Oct 17	Jan 16	Mar 20	Dec 26
4	Portsmouth	Mar 20	Dec 26	Oct 11	Feb 28
5	M'Boro	Nov 7	Jan 30	Nov 27	Mar 13
6	West Brom	Apr 10	Sep 5	Jan 26	Nov 3
7	Birmingham	Apr 24	Dec 8	Apr 20	Sep 1
8	Bolton	Dec 19	Apr 3	Oct 17	Jan 16
9	Sheff Utd	Feb 6	Nov 21	May 1	Nov 24
10	Derby	Mar 13	Nov 28	Nov 21	Feb 6
11	Watford	-	-	Mar 6	Aug 16
12	Stoke	Sep 12	Feb 13	Aug 22	Mar 3
13	Burnley	Oct 10	Feb 27	Dec 9	Apr 24
14	Wolves	Dec 29	Oct 24	Mar 16	Dec 5
15	Swansea	Apr 21	Sep 1	Sep 8	Apr 6
16	Norwich	Jan 23	Oct 31	Feb 17	Oct 14
17	QPR	Jan 1	Dec 12	Oct 31	Jan 23
18	Millwall	Dec 5	Mar 17	Aug 29	Apr 17
19	Southampton	Aug 16	Mar 6	-	-
20	Cardiff	Feb 16	Oct 13	Jan 1	Dec 12
21	Preston	Sep 8	Apr 7	Jan 30	Nov 7
22	Bristol C	Feb 20	Sep 18	Sep 12	Feb 13
23	Wrexham	Mar 2	Aug 22	Feb 20	Sep 19
24	Lincoln	Nov 3	Jan 26	Apr 10	Sep 5

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Win / draw / win form

Watford have lost 5 consecutive league games

Watford have not won in 8 consecutive league games

Southampton have not lost in 21 consecutive league games

Home

Overall

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

/ 0

Conceded

/ 0

Clean sheets

/ 0

Failed to score

/ 0

HOME FORM Win / Draw / Win

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

/ 0

Conceded

/ 0

Clean sheets

/ 0

Failed to score

/ 0

OVERALL FORM Win / Draw / Win

Away

Overall

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

/ 0

Conceded

/ 0

Clean sheets

/ 0

Failed to score

/ 0

AWAY FORM Win / Draw / Win

Goals: Scored

Conceded

Games: Scored

/ 0

Conceded

/ 0

Clean sheets

/ 0

Failed to score

/ 0

OVERALL FORM Win / Draw / Win

Win / draw / win head to head (H2H)

Southampton have not lost to Watford in 10 consecutive away league meetings

Watford

Southampton

Goals: Scored

Games: Scored

10 / 13

11 / 13

Clean sheets

2 / 13

3 / 13

WAT

SOU

FIXTURE HISTORY AT Watford
Draw	2 - 2	Draw
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
	0 - 1	Southampton
	1 - 3	Southampton
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
Draw	2 - 2	Draw
	3 - 4	Southampton
Draw	0 - 0	Draw
	0 - 3	Southampton
Draw	2 - 2	Draw
Watford	3 - 2
Watford	3 - 0
Watford	3 - 2

Southampton

Watford

Goals: Scored

Games: Scored

9 / 12

Clean sheets

3 / 12

WAT

SOU

FIXTURE HISTORY AT Southampton
Southampton	1 - 0
Southampton	3 - 2
	1 - 2	Watford
Southampton	2 - 1
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
	0 - 2	Watford
Draw	1 - 1	Draw
Southampton	4 - 0
	0 - 3	Watford
	0 - 3	Watford
	1 - 3	Watford
Southampton	2 - 0

Goal Statistics

Goals have been difficult to come by for Watford of late. It has been 8 Championship games since they last scored more than 1, and a PG of 1.3 suggests they'll struggle to end that run on Sunday afternoon against Southampton.

Southampton's fans will be hoping for goals on Sunday afternoon, not least because Watford have conceded in each of their last 7 Championship matches. A PG of 1.7 for Southampton suggests that run should continue.

	Watford 11th	Southampton 19th
	Kickoff prediction
Kickoff prediction	1.3 goals	1.7 goals
	Scoring probability
Scoring probability	0 27% 1 35% 2 23% 3 10% 4+ There is a 62% probability that Watford will score no more than 1 goal	0 18% 1 31% 2 26% 3 15% 4+ 9% There is a 82% probability that Southampton will score 1 or more goals

	20 home / away league games

Attack defence ratings
Championship - 2026/2027 season

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WAT

SOU

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Games scored	0		0
Failed to score	0		0
Scored first	0		0
Goals scored	0		0
Avg. goals scored	0		0
Avg. shots per game	0		0
Avg. shots per goal	0		0
Conversion rate for	0		0
Avg. XG for	0		0
KickOff rating		0%

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WAT

SOU

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Games conceded	0		0
Clean sheets	0		0
Conceded first	0		0
Goals conceded	0		0
Avg. goals conceded	0		0
Avg. shots/game conceded	0		0
Avg. shots/goal conceded	0		0
Conversion rate against	0%		0%
Avg. XG against	0		0
KickOff rating		0%

Watford v Southampton Championship lLine ups will show here when available.

Watford Championship squad statistics 2026/2027

Overall

Attack

Defence

Most starts	Most goals	Most assists	Most cards
0	0	0	0

Players	Appserances	goals	Assists	cards
G. Ortelli GLK				-
A. Marriott GLK				-
D Bachmann GLK				-
E Selvik GLK				-
O Traoré DEF				-
J Ngakia DEF				-
K Keben DEF				-
M Pollock DEF				-
M Bola DEF				-
J Petris DEF				-
I Louza MID				-
E Kayembe MID				-
H Kyprianou MID				-
E Bove MID				-
T Dele-Bashiru MID				-
R Vata FWD				-
O. Maamma FWD				-
N Irankunda FWD				-
M. Doumbia FWD				-
K Baah FWD				-

Most goals	Most shots on target	Most assists	Most big chances
0	0	0	0

Players	goals	shots on	Assists	big chances

Most passes	Most tackles	Most duels won
0	0	0

Players	passes	tackles	duels won

Southampton Championship squad statistics 2026/2027

Overall

Attack

Defence

Most starts	Most goals	Most assists	Most cards
0	0	0	0

Players	Appserances	goals	Assists	cards
G Long GLK				-
A Ramsdale GLK				-
G Bazunu GLK				-
D Peretz GLK				-
Y Sugawara DEF				-
J Larios DEF				-
T Harwood-Bellis DEF				-
Welington DEF				-
N Wood DEF				-
R Manning DEF				-
J Stephens DEF				-
J. Kayi Sanda DEF				-
J Bree DEF				-
J Quarshie DEF				-
M Roerslev DEF				-
C. Bragg MID				-
S Charles MID				-
F Azaz MID				-
K Matsuki MID				-
L Scienza MID				-
F Downes MID				-
C. Jander MID				-
T Fellows MID				-
L Dobbin FWD				-
C Larin FWD				-
D Downs FWD				-
C Archer FWD				-
S Edozie FWD				-
J. Robinson FWD				-
B Díaz FWD				-

Most goals	Most shots on target	Most assists	Most big chances
0	0	0	0

Players	goals	shots on	Assists	big chances

Most passes	Most tackles	Most duels won
0	0	0

Players	passes	tackles	duels won

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