Wolverhampton Wanderers and Watford will face on Sunday the 26th of December at 12:30 pm in the 19th week of the Premier League. The match will take place in Wolverhampton at the Molineux Stadium. The chosen referee is Jarred Gillett.
Wolverhampton Wanderers occupies the 8th position in the standings with 25 points. It comes from a 0-0 draw against Chelsea in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 7 times, draw 4 times, and lost 7 times.
Watford occupies the 17th position in the table with 13 points. It comes from a 2-1 loss against Brentford in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 4 times, drawn once, and lost 11 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wolverhampton Wanderers has mostly adopted the 3-4-3 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 61.11%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-3 (11 times), 3-4-2-1 (5 times) and 3-5-2 (2 times).
Bruno Miguel Silva do Nascimento is expected to play against Watford with the following players: J. Malheiro de Sá, M. Kilman, R. Saïss, C. Coady, N. Cabral Semedo, F. Marçal de Oliveira, R. Da Silva Neves, J. Iria Santos Moutinho, D. Castelo Podence, F. Machado Mota de Castro Trincão and R. Jiménez Rodríguez.
Granting that the above line up is confirmed, the average age of Wolverhampton Wanderers would be 28.00.
Bruno Miguel Silva do Nascimento will probably not be able to employ R. Aït Nouri and F. Soares Silva because of injury.
J. Ruddy, Y. Mosquera, H. Hwang and P. Lomba Neto will definitely miss the match.
Watford
Watford has mostly adopted the 4-1-4-1 line-up most used during the season (10 times or 62.50%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-1-4-1 (10 times), 4-2-3-1 (4 times), 4-4-1-1 (once) and 4-4-2 (once).
Claudio Ranieri is expected to play against Wolverhampton Wanderers with the following players: D. Bachmann, C. Cathcart, W. Troost-Ekong, F. Femenía Far, I. Louza, M. Sissoko, T. Cleverley, J. Hernández Suárez, J. King and E. Dennis.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Watford would be 27.80.
There are doubts about the presence of A. Masina.
Claudio Ranieri will probably not be able to employ F. Sierralta Carvallo because of injury.
B. Foster, C. Kabasele, O. Etebo, I. Sarr and K. Baah will definitely miss the match.
