Watford vs Sheffield United - prediction, team news, lineups

Separated by 3 points successful the combat for apical fractional spots successful the Championship table, Watford and Sheffield United volition quadrate disconnected astatine Vicarage Road connected Saturday.

The hosts person dropped to 12th spot successful the midst of a four-game winless run, portion their visitors bounced backmost to winning ways past play to beryllium 17th and wrong touching region of the apical half.

Match preview

Watford instrumentality to enactment astatine Vicarage Road connected Saturday aiming to extremity a four-game winless tally and support clasp of their apical fractional successful the last weeks of the Championship season.

The Hornets find themselves 12th with 4 games remaining, having earned 57 points from their 42 outings, with 13 of those coming from 11 matches nether Edward Still pursuing Javi Gracia's February exit, erstwhile they sat connected the borderline of the playoff race.

They managed 3 wins and 11 points from the archetypal 7 of those games but person since managed 2 draws and 2 losses from their past 4 attempts, arsenic the Easter Weekend produced a 2-1 distant decision to Queens Park Rangers and a location gully with Charlton Athletic.

A travel to relegation-threatened Oxford United past followed past Saturday, and the Hornets near empty-handed pursuing a 2-0 nonaccomplishment astatine the Kassam Stadium, having fallen down to a 19th-minute Myles Peart-Harris extremity earlier Mark Harris enactment the crippled retired of show successful wounded time.

Now sitting 12th and lone starring 13th and 14th spots connected extremity quality but lone trailing ninth-placed Norwich City by a azygous constituent with 4 games remaining, Watford volition bid to bounce backmost successful their penultimate location crippled connected Saturday with the accidental to rapidly amended their top-half standing.

Their visitors, meanwhile, marque the travel southbound aiming to marque it consecutive victories to extremity the Championship run with a affirmative run.

In a disappointing play pursuing past year's playoff loss, Sheffield United enactment themselves successful a presumption to complaint towards the apical six with a tally of 3 wins successful 4 games connected February, but they would past beryllium confined to a mid-table decorativeness arsenic a six-game winless tally followed.

In that time, the Blades managed 3 draws alongside 3 defeats, culminating successful a 1-0 distant nonaccomplishment to Bristol City connected Easter Monday, leaving them 17th connected 51 points from 41 matches with lone basement broadside Sheffield Wednesday having suffered much than their 20 losses.

Sixth-placed Hull City past visited Bramall Lane connected Saturday, and aft trailing to an aboriginal Oli McBurnie goal, they turned the crippled circular precocious connected to triumph 2-1, arsenic Gustavo Hamer levelled with an 85th-minute punishment earlier Danny Ings scored the decisive extremity 3 minutes later.

Boosted by that instrumentality to winning ways and present sitting wrong 3 points of their 12th-placed hosts, Sheffield United volition bid to extremity the word with a winning tally and precocious ascent into the apical fractional of the Championship.

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Team News

Watford volition stay without Marc Bola, Jeremy Ngakia, Hector Kyprianou and Rocco Vata astatine the play owed to ongoing injuries.

Luca Kjerrumgaard volition again anticipation to pb the line, having managed 9 league goals this term, with Nestory Irankunda, Edo Kayembe and Giorgi Chakvetadze having supported him past clip out.

There is competition, though, with Othmane Maamma, Kwadwo Baah, Mamadou Doumbia and Tom Ince each hoping to travel successful from the outset, portion Nampalys Mendy should again articulation prima antheral Imran Louza, who boasts 7 goals and 9 assists successful the Championship this season, successful the midfield.

Sheffield United are inactive incapable to telephone connected first-choice goalkeeper Michael Cooper, who is confined to the attraction country alongside Sam McCallum, Kalvin Phillips and Tyrese Campbell.

Ings, who scored their victor past clip out, volition anticipation to travel successful and pb the enactment from the start, but Wilder whitethorn instrumentality with Patrick Bamford astatine the apical extremity of their 4-2-3-1 setup.

He volition beryllium joined going guardant by the likes of Callum O'Hare and Hamer, who moved onto 4 goals and 11 assists for the play successful the Championship past clip out, portion Jairo Riedewald volition anticipation to instrumentality successful the motor country successful spot of either Sydie Peck oregon Joe Rothwell.

Watford imaginable starting lineup:

Selvik; Petris, Pollock, Goglichidze, Abankwah; Louza, Mendy; Irankunda, Chakvetadze, Baah; Doumbia

Sheffield United imaginable starting lineup:

Davies; Seriki, Tanganga, McGuinness, Burrows; Rothwell, Riedewald; Cannon, O'Hare, Hamer; Bamford

We say: Watford 1-2 Sheffield United

On the backmost of a confidence-boosting triumph past clip out, we spot Sheffield United kickstarting their precocious ascent towards the apical fractional with different triumph connected Saturday against a Watford broadside who are seemingly lacking momentum arsenic the extremity of the word nears.

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