Sunderland vs Watford Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 4th October 2023

Watford travel to face Sunderland in a Championship encounter at Stadium of Light on Wednesday.

Sunderland are number four in the table on 16 points after nine matches. Watford rank as number 20 with nine points after nine matches played.

Watford enter the match against Sunderland hoping to gain some ground on the latter in Championship standings. A positive result could prove pivotal to their upcoming challenges this season.

Sunderland scored 18 while allowing ten goals against in the past ten matches. They claimed three clean sheets on the way.

Watford scored 15 goals, conceded 13 and managed four clean sheets in their previous ten matches.

The most recent outing between Sunderland and Watford failed to produce a winner, with the score reading 2-2 after the final whistle. The best betting odds on a draw at full-time with the bookies are at 5/2.

Sunderland vs Watford Prediction

Sunderland Form

Sunderland have been a little inconsistent recently, as they beat Blackburn by 1-3. Following that up proved too difficult, as they lost 0-1 against Cardiff, before claiming three points in a 0-3 win against Sheffield Wednesday. In their last six Championship home matches, Sunderland have three wins, while they've drawn one and lost two. They scored 12 and conceded seven goals.

Watford Form

A draw is all that prevents Watford from having nothing to show for their previous three games. They claimed a point in a 2-2 draw against West Bromwich before getting trounced against Leeds by a 3-0 score. Last time out, more disappointment followed as Middlesbrough ran out 2-3 winners. In their last six Championship away matches, Watford failed to win even once. In stead, they've drawn three and lost three, scoring seven while also conceding 12 times.

Sunderland boast a decent form, and with Watford finding things a bit tough away from home, this looks like a good opportunity to claim a win for the home side.

Sunderland took 13 points from their last five encounters with teams from the bottom half of the Championship table. This amounts to four wins after scoring 11 times and conceding three. Sunderland show off a record of five wins, one draw and three defeats in the Championship this season. Watford show off two wins, three draws and four defeats in the Championship.

Sunderland vs Watford Squads

Sunderland Squad

The 59-year-old Mowbray will select the starting eleven against Watford from this squad. The statistics represent goals scored and matches played in the Championship this season:

Anthony Patterson (0/9), Nathan Bishop (0/0), Ajibola Alese (0/0), Daniel Ballard (2/9), Dennis Cirkin (0/5), Jenson Seelt (0/1), Mason Burstow (0/0), Nectarios Triantis (0/0), Pierre Ekwah (2/6), Timothee Pembele (0/0), Trai Hume (0/9), Adil Aouchiche (0/0), Alex Pritchard (0/9), Bradley Dack (1/4), Chris Rigg (1/2), Corry Evans (0/0), Daniel Neil (2/9), Ellis Taylor (0/0), Jay Matete (0/0), Jobe Bellingham (2/9), Luke O'Nien (0/9), Patrick Roberts (0/7), Abdoullah Ba (1/8), Eliezer Mayenda (0/0), Jack Clarke (7/9), Jack Diamond (0/0), Jewison Bennette (0/1), Luis Semedo (0/7), Nazariy Rusyn (0/0), Niall Huggins (0/6).

Watford Squad

Listed below is the full squad of Watford players that the manager Valerien Ismael will choose from for the upcoming game:

Ben Hamer (0/0), Daniel Bachmann (0/9), Francisco Sierralta (0/7), Imran Louza (1/9), Jamal Lewis (0/4), James Morris (0/5), Jeremy Ngakia (0/6), Matthew Pollock (0/2), Ryan Porteous (0/9), Wesley Hoedt (1/9), Edo Kayembe (0/6), Giorgi Chakvetadze (0/8), Ismael Kone (0/7), Jake Livermore (0/3), Ken Sema (0/5), Thomas Ince (1/7), Tom Dele-Bashiru (1/8), Yaser Asprilla (0/8), Matheus Martins (3/9), Mileta Rajovic (3/6), Rhys Healey (0/1), Vakoun Issouf Bayo (2/8).

Sunderland vs Watford Team News

Sunderland are looking at up to six players on the injured and absent list ahead of their home match against Watford this coming Wednesday.

Bradley Dack, Dennis Cirkin, Pierre Ekwah, Jay Matete, Ajibola Alese and Corry Evans are all absent from the Sunderland squad that faces Watford at Stadium of Light.

When Watford take on Sunderland at Stadium of Light, they will only have one player missing from their selection.

Ken Sema nurses an injury and won't be travelling with Watford.

Sunderland vs Watford Lineups

Sunderland vs Watford H2H

Betting on the draw would have earned you a sound profit the last time Sunderland played Watford. The pair split the points in a 2-2 match, where no one managed to get the upper hand. Sunderland picked up three wins in their previous ten matches against Watford, while the latter claimed two wins in these, with the remaining finishing a draw. The bookies best betting odds on a draw at full-time are at 5/2.

Sunderland vs Watford Results

In the last six matches between Sunderland and Watford, both teams to score came up five times.

Sunderland vs Watford Betting Tips

Jack Clarke look like value in the goal scoring market with six strikes to his name in six Championship matches. The visitors are crossing their fingers Mileta Rajovic adds to his three Championship goals come on Wednesday.

In their last 10 matches at Stadium of Light across all tournaments Sunderland won four times, drew four and lost two times. Watford claimed zero wins, five draw and five defeats in their last 10 games away. Both teams have been quite terrible at keeping their opponents at bay in recent matches. While Sunderland managed to keep a clean sheet in one of the games at Stadium of Light, Watford kept their opponent from scoring in one of their last 10 away games.

In the last six encounters between Sunderland and Watford over 2.5 goals came out four times, as Sunderland averaged 2.16 goals a game. Watford scored an average of 1.49 goals in these, while both teams scored five times. Sunderland performed an average of 1.9 goals a game in their previous ten matches in which over 2.5 goals came out seven times. Over 2.5 goals came up in five of Watford's previous ten matches across all tournaments. They managed to score an average of 1.4 goals in these matches.