Watford vs Stoke City betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Championship match on August 17th, 2024

Watford and Stoke City will on Saturday, August 17th, 2024 at 14:00h (UTC), play in a Championship football game in England, check the Watford vs Stoke City betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Watford vs Stoke City will occur

The game is set to be played in the small Vicarage Road stadium, in the city of Watford, with a capacity for 22200 spectators, who hope to help the team to surprise in this match.

Where to follow the live game

You can find all the follow-up to the match live on Betarena, bringing odds, events, statistics, and more to help with your sports betting.

Introduction to the Watford vs Stoke City betting tip 2024/2025

Watford comes from a win in the last match played. On that occasion the opponent was Milton Keynes Dons, in a match valid for Carabao Cup, and the match ended 5-0. Coach T. Cleverley's team lined up with this formation: 3-4-2-1.

The positive result confirmed that the team's favoritism before the start of the match was certain, making the odds 1.44.

A key player in the victory Watford, Mileta Rajović was one of the few athletes who achieved any individual prominence in the contest. In a performance without much inspiration from the team, he helped a lot for a positive result.

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this match after a victory in the last round. In a dispute valid for Carabao Cup, Stoke City, who used a 4-3-3 formation, faced the Carlisle United team with a final score of 0-2.

The odds of 1.73 before the match made clear the favoritism of the team before the match, a condition that was ratified with the final positive result.

The last time these teams played against each other was in Championship, where Watford was at 10th place while Stoke City occupied 18th place. Watford went in with a 4-1-4-1 formation while Stoke City opened their game with a 4-2-3-1 tactic.

Last time a draw between these teams, what to expect now?

The last time these teams met was for a Championship match, on 29-12-2023, referring to the 2023/2024 season, in a competitive game that ended with a 1-1 draw.

In charge of this football game will be T. Nield, while R. Wild and N. Lugg will assist him.

Watford

Current leaderboard

With 3 points achieved up to 2nd round, Watford are ranked 7th place in the table.

This will be the second game this season in which the Watford team will play at home. They managed to get a victory over the Sunderland in the first one, with a score of 1-0.

Watford analysis

At the end of round 1 of Championship, Watford collected 3 goals scored and 2 goals conceded.

As we approach the Regular Season, Watford is set for another intriguing match. In the inaugural game, the team had 4 shots on target, providing a glimpse into their attacking potential. This statistic adds an element of anticipation for the upcoming match, as we await to see how Watford will navigate their offensive strategies in this encounter.

his average possession rate in the league is 46%, which means that the team usually can't take the initiative in the game and has a more reactive style of play. Therefore, for this match Watford vs Stoke City 2024/2025, the team should make an effort to keep the possession and be able to attack the opponent.

Stoke City

Current leaderboard

Stoke City is currently in 8th place in the league after the 2nd round, having won 3 points from their games so far this season.

Stoke City play away from home for the second time this season. They beat Southampton by 0-1 in their first.

Stoke City analysis

Stoke City shows a very satisfactory ratio of goals scored to goals conceded. The team after 1 games has only conceded goals on 0 occasions, and has scored in 1.

Niall Ennis' life is not being easy in this beginning of his trajectory for his new club. Hired for this season, the player has not been performing well, a fact that was repeated in Stoke City last game. Against Carlisle United, once again he failed to score goals, accumulating another bad performance.

Bet suggestions for this game:

As we are at the beginning of the competition, there is still little data to be studied, that allows suggestions for good bets. However, it is important to note that, usually, in the first games of a tournament, the matches have goals in the first half. The teams are still getting familiar, and there is no interest in maintaining any specific result due to the leaderboard.

Corners Top Betting Tips

Although the sample is still small, and therefore less accurate, due to the tournament being in the initial rounds, it is already possible to have an average of corners won by these teams. Adding the number of corner shots of these two teams, we reach an average of 7 per game.

Stoke City is usually quite offensive in their matches, and this has resulted in a high average of corner kicks in the competition. Currently, the team averages 9 corners per game played. Therefore, it might be interesting to bet on the over corner kicks of Stoke City in this match.

Goals Top Betting Tips

At the beginning of the championship round, the number of goals scored and conceded by both teams can be a good betting parameter. Watford didn't score any goal and conceded in 2 opportunities in the last round of the tournament, while Stoke City scored 1 time and didn't concede any goal as well.

This is a match with several good betting entries to have some return on sports betting.

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