Match thread. Bristol City - Watford

Bristol City v Watford



As work is very quiet and there is not one i thought I would make a thread.

It will be better than this http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20778884

On paper this looks like a win for the visitors but things never are what they appear and with Peterborough United beating Cardiff City and Barnsley beating Charlton Athletic when both wins would have seemed strange anything is possible.

Bristol City will have Cole Skuse and Greg Cunningham in the team againafter they have returned from their injuries. John Stead will also play. Lewis Carey andLewin Nyatanga are both fit again and might be it the team if Derek McInnes decides to mix his team around. Danny Wilson and RyanTaylor are almost almost certain to not play.

Watford will not have Marco Cassetti as he is suspended and Gianfranco Zola has such a large squad you never know who might play. John Eustace and Nyron Noseworthy are fit again and might be included but Fernando Forestieri and Lloyd Doyley are still suffering his injury and may not be ready to return.

I perhaps will not be able to update this when the match is in progress.



And some background

Current form
Two wins and two draws is all Bristol City have to show for their last ten matches, when Watford is almost the opposite six wins and three draws. Bristols successes were two wins in Yorkshire Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough and draws with Ipswich Town again on their travels and Blackpool. It is easier to report Watford failed against Hull City at Vicarage Road and drew with Burnley and Blackpool away from home and when they hosted Millwall.

Further back
The locals have a good record against Watford. They have 22 victories and 14 draws against 9 wins for the visitors. 75 goals to 49 shows that Bristol is a good place to watch these two teams with an average of three goals in each game. You need a time machine for Bristol Citys best win 5:0 in 1926 and Watford managed to succeed by 1:4 in August 1998 with goals from Alon Hazan Dean Yates and two from Richard Johnson after both had been promoted the season before. Oddly fortunes the 1998-99 season were different for the clubs the Hornets promoted again and the Robins relegated
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Thanks ak, I hope to be around to comment on what I hear. Can we produce another stunning display similar to the first half against Forest? Not too sure if this performance can be repeated every game, but to some extent Forest tried to play a similar passing game and came off second best.

 

Nice one AK - much appreciated on a holiday and 5 festive *'s from me. It going to feel like a Sat afternoon.

Going for a 1-3 Watford win this afternoon..

 

Thanks ak!

Some facts off twitter:
There has been just one 0-0 draw in the last 34 games involving Watford.
There has been just one 0-0 draw in the last 34 games involving Bristol City.

Spooky.

 

Bonjour, thanks for the link ak, appreciated. I just pray for a Christmas miracle and City end up with 3 points!

 

I fully except you to win today, 0-3 or similar, but hope it doesn't happen

 

Same team bar Cassetti for today according to 3CR - Anya taking his place.

 

Just confirmed:

Almunia; Ekstrand, Hall, Hoban; Anya, Hogg, Chalobah, Abdi, Pudil; Vydra, Deeney

 

subs: Bonham, Neuton, Yeates, Beleck, Geijo, Mujangi Bia, Battocchio.

 

More pace then!

 

#BristolCity v Watford - Heaton, Foster, Bates, McManus, Fontaine, Cunningham, Adomah, Danns, Skuse, Baldock, Stead.


Subs - Gerken, Carey, Bryan, Kilkenny, Elliott, Anderson, Davies.
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Just as I thought, best striker on the bench and Fontaine is still being selected

 

You have a best strker?

Which one is it?

 

Davies and Baldock are class but our midfield is too weak for us to play 4-4-2, couldn't make it up

 

Forest 4-2 Leeds FT

 

It is hammering down with rain and they are trying to soak some of it up.

 

It's pissing down with rain here

 

Kick off delayed 15 minutes to give the pitch a chance to dry out

 

Lets hope it does

 

bloody rain