📏 Form Guide

Watford

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Watford will be wanting a better result here after the 2-1 Championship defeat last time out to Queens Park Rangers.

In that match, Watford managed 54% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Watford was Imrân Louza (85'). Queens Park Rangers got 15 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. Rayan Kolli (26') and Paul Smyth (63') scored for Queens Park Rangers.

Watford have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets lately, although they have also managed to score goals themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, Watford have seen their goal breached in 5 of them in addition to scoring in 5 of those games. We will just have to find out whether or not that trend will be continued on into this next match.

Going into this one, Watford are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Charlton Athletic

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After a loss in their previous game against Bristol City in Championship competition, Charlton Athletic and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that match, Charlton Athletic managed 47% possession and 13 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Charlton Athletic was Lyndon Dykes (30'). On the other side, Bristol City had 17 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. Scott Twine (11') and Noah Eile (55') scored for Bristol City.

Over the course of 5 of the previous six games involving Charlton Athletic, a relatively low number of goals have been scored between them and their opposition. The overall average number of goals per game in that spell is a paltry 1.5, with the average goals for The Addicks standing at 0.67.

Their past results show that Charlton Athletic:

• are winless against Watford when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 5 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 01/01/2013 shows that Watford have won 1 of them and Charlton Athletic 4, with the tally of draws standing at 1.

An aggregate of 20 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 10 from The Hornets and 10 for The Addicks. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.33.

The last league encounter featuring the two was Championship match day 1 on 09/08/2025 which ended up with the score at Charlton Athletic 1-0 Watford.

On that day, Charlton Athletic managed 42% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Harvey Knibbs (94').

Watford got 10 shots on goal with 1 of them on target.

The referee was Stephen Martin.

📋 Team News: Watford

We are thinking that The Hornets will probably use a 4-4-2 system this time, utilising Egil Selvik, Kevin Keben, Mattie Pollock, Saba Goglichidze, Jeremy Petris, Nestory Irankunda, Pierre Ekwah, Edoardo Bove, Giorgi Chakvetadze, Imran Louza and Luca Kjerrumgaard.

📰 Team News: Charlton Athletic

We reckon that The Addicks seem most likely to utilise a 3-5-2 system, going with Will Mannion, Kayne Ramsay, Lloyd Jones, Amarii Bell, Harry Clarke, Sonny Carey, Conor Coventry, Greg Docherty, Luke Chambers, Lyndon Dykes and Charlie Kelman.

✨ Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Charlton Athletic might need a bit of good fortune to put one past this Watford lineup who we reckon will be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

We’re therefore anticipating a 1-0 win for Watford at full-time.

A close call.

Renata Leite, 03:02 06/04/2026