Barnet vs Watford - prediction, team news, lineups

Watford proceed their pre-season run with a travel to The Hive to look Barnet connected Tuesday night.

The lucifer has been brought guardant 24 hours courtesy of the World Cup semi-final betwixt England and Argentina.

Match preview

Having won little than 40% of his games successful 4 of his past 5 jobs, Alessio Dionisi has overmuch to bash to triumph implicit the Watford fanbase aft their latest managerial change.

A 2-1 decision to National League nine Boreham Wood - with what was a beardown starting lineup - implicit the play was acold from the perfect commencement for the Italian.

While determination is inactive plentifulness of clip for the Hornets to get backmost connected track, Dionisi volition privation to spot improvements successful what is scheduled to beryllium the 2nd of 4 matches earlier their EFL Cup opener connected the 2nd play of August.

At this constituent successful the summer, Watford person been amazingly quiescent successful the transportation market, with Omar Toure's determination from Udinese expected to go their archetypal confirmed summation implicit the coming days.

Watford volition yet necessitate a replacement for Georgia planetary Giorgi Chakvetadze, the playmaker who has precocious departed Vicarage Road for Udinese, a chap Pozzo family-owned club.

As acold arsenic Barnet are concerned, they person spent the aboriginal portion of pre-season with distant games astatine non-league teams.

A 2-0 triumph implicit Hitchin Town was followed by a 2-1 triumph astatine Hemel Hempstead connected Saturday.

Despite the level of the opposition, Dean Brennan volition beryllium encouraged by the commencement that has been made erstwhile 9 signings person linked up with the squad.

After past season's eighth-placed decorativeness successful League Two, determination is optimism that acquiring players specified arsenic Swindon Town centre-back Will Wright and Walsall midfielder Charlie Lakin tin adhd the fourth-tier acquisition required to instrumentality them into the playoffs arsenic a bare minimum.

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Team News

Mattie Pollock and Mamadou Doumbia some played the afloat 90 minutes for Watford against Boreham Wood.

Therefore, the centre-back and guardant whitethorn driblet retired of the squad for this contest, with Travis Akomeah and Zavier Massiah-Edwards perchance being fixed a accidental to impressment aft substitute outings astatine the weekend.

Imran Louza could diagnostic connected the substitutes' seat aft a aboriginal instrumentality to pre-season than immoderate of his teammates, portion Kwadwo Baah missed the Boreham Wood crippled arsenic a precaution and volition beryllium assessed earlier this match.

Four trialists started for Barnet astatine the play and it remains to beryllium seen whether that inclination volition proceed here.

Goalkeeper Taye Ashby-Hammond could start, portion Lakin and Kabongo Tshimanga whitethorn besides travel into the archetypal XI.

Barnet imaginable starting lineup:

Ashby-Hammond; Liwala, Wright, Richards, Matejko, Lakin, Talwar, Siaw, Knowles, Tshimanga, Maskell

Watford imaginable starting lineup:

Bachmann; Petris, Keben, Akomeah, Bola, Bove, Kyprianou, Maamma, Nabizada, Massiah-Edwards, Kjerrumgaard

We say: Barnet 1-3 Watford

Despite decision successful their opening friendly, we consciousness that Watford tin lone improve, peculiarly against lower-level opposition. With that successful mind, we are backing the Hornets to travel done successful relatively-comfortable fashion.

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