Watford vs Charlton Athletic - prediction, team news, lineups

After their South Wales slaughtering earlier successful the week, Watford instrumentality to Vicarage Road connected Saturday afternoon, erstwhile Charlton Athletic are the latest Championship visitors to Hertfordshire.

The Hornets were demolished astatine the location of Cardiff City past clip out, whilst the Addicks near it precocious to unafraid a stock of the spoils with Burnley, who are progressively appearing arsenic relegation candidates.

Match preview

Since a 2-1 location triumph implicit Preston North End connected September 8, Watford's early-season fortunes person taken a drastic crook for the worse, with Saturday's hosts losing 4 consecutive league matches.

From the grounds of back-to-back defeats by Burnley (0-4) and Cardiff (1-5) since the extremity of the extended planetary break, the Hornets are successful superior information of concluding a five-year enactment successful the Championship with relegation to the 3rd tier.

That being said, Watford caput manager Alessio Dionisi supposedly retains the enactment of ruthless nine proprietor Gino Pozzo, contempt rumours suggesting that the Italian was sacked successful the mediate of his side's Cardiff debacle connected Tuesday night.

On a ngo to debar 5 consecutive losses, the Hornets are backmost astatine Vicarage Road connected the play looking to extremity a tally of consecutive location defeats, with the Hertfordshire outfit losing matches to Stoke City and Burnley by an aggregate scoreline of 6-1.

A accordant occupation for Saturday's hosts astatine the opening of this term, Watford person scored conscionable 8 goals crossed 10 second-tier fixtures pursuing the departures of Nestory Irankunda and Imran Louza successful the summer, with lone Lincoln City (7) netting less truthful far.

Whilst determination was nary instrumentality to winning ways for Charlton Athletic connected Tuesday night, manager Nathan Jones was up to his aged tricks, rattling the Championship assemblage with his passionate extremity celebrations.

The 53-year-old reacted jubilantly arsenic his Addicks outfit doubly came from down to snatch a constituent astatine Turf Moor, with recently-relegated Burnley the victims of a last-minute equaliser from summertime signing Ivan Mesik.

As is the lawsuit with this weekend's hosts, Charlton's astir caller triumph came against bottommost broadside Preston, meaning that the Londoners are presently connected a seven-match winless streak (D5 L2) dating backmost to aboriginal September.

Despite winning conscionable 3 of their opening 10 league contests, the Addicks are sitting successful a respectable 13th spot successful the Championship standings, lone 2 points down eighth-placed Stoke.

Charlton are winless crossed their past 4 distant fixtures (D2 L2), and the visiting broadside has failed to travel retired connected apical of this matchup successful the past six editions, with Jones's men drafting 1-1 astatine Vicarage Road past season.

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Team News

Watford are expected to marque a fig of changes from the starting XI which disappointed heavy astatine Cardiff connected Tuesday, with Myron Boadu and Stephy Mavididi apt to driblet out.

The lone subordinate to people much than erstwhile successful the Championship truthful acold for the Hornets, youngster Amin Nabizada should play connected the near wing.

Dionisi's hands are inactive tied somewhat owed to constricted midfield and antiaircraft positions, with Edoardo Bove (muscle), Jeremy Ngakia (thigh) and Kwadwo Baah (thigh) unavailable.

Charlton's wounded woes are opening to easiness up, with Matty Gooden and Nathaniel Chalobah adjacent to returning from fittingness setbacks.

However, the Addicks stay without the services of Kenyan centre-back Collins Sichenje until the extremity of October.

Centre-back Billy Koumetio has started back-to-back matches implicit the past week, making his archetypal Championship appearances since August.

Watford imaginable starting lineup:

Ravaglia; Traore, Pollock, Keben, Bola; Kayembe, Kyprianou, Maamma, Payero, Nabizada; Doumbia

Charlton Athletic imaginable starting lineup:

Okonkwo; Ramsey, Jones, Koumetio; McNamara, Skipp, Coventry, Bell; Grant, Campbell, Leaburn

We say: Watford 1-2 Charlton Athletic

Watford are intelligibly successful a existent rut, and different decision present could spot the managerial axe swung astatine under-pressure Dionisi.

The ambiance is apt to beryllium tense astatine Vicarage Road - conditions that Jones's plucky Charlton broadside typically thrive in.

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