Watford and Chelsea will face on Wednesday the 1st of December at 7:30 pm in the 14th week of the Premier League. The match will be played in Watford at the Vicarage Road. The appointed referee is David Coote.
Watford occupies the 16th place in the table with 13 points. It comes from a 4-2 loss against Leicester City in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 4 times, drawn once, and lost 8 times.
Chelsea is in the 1st position in the table with 30 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Manchester United in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 9 times, draw 3 times, and lost once.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Watford
Watford has mostly adopted the 4-1-4-1 line-up most used during the season (8 times or 61.54%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-1-4-1 (8 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 4-4-1-1 (once) and 4-4-2 (once).
Claudio Ranieri is expected to play against Chelsea with the following players: D. Bachmann, A. Masina, W. Troost-Ekong, C. Cathcart, F. Femenía Far, M. Sissoko, I. Louza, T. Cleverley, J. Hernández Suárez, J. King and E. Dennis.
In case that the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Watford would be 27.73.
B. Foster, C. Kabasele, N. N’Koulou, F. Sierralta Carvallo, O. Etebo, I. Sarr, K. Sema and K. Baah will definitely miss the match.
Chelsea
Chelsea has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (10 times or 76.92%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (10 times), 3-5-2 (2 times) and 3-4-1-2 (once).
Thomas Tuchel is expected to play against Watford with the following players: E. Mendy, T. Chalobah, A. Rüdiger, T. da Silva, M. Alonso Mendoza, J. Frello Filho, R. Loftus-Cheek, R. James, M. Mount, K. Havertz and C. Hudson-Odoi.
Granting that the line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Chelsea would be 26.27.
B. Chilwell, N. Kanté and M. Kovačić will definitely miss the match.