Championship · Match preview
Watford 2–1 
Southampton
- Kick-off
- Status
- Finished
- Venue
- Vicarage Road Stadium
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Match overview
Final score: Watford 2–1 Southampton.
Watford are 20th in the Championship table with 11 points from 11 matches; Southampton are 7th with 17 points from 11.
Last 3 results in our archive, newest first: Watford W L W L; Southampton W W W.
In their last 4 settled matches Watford scored 1.3 and conceded 0.8 goals per game; Southampton scored 1.7 and conceded 0.3 in their last 3.
The Championship averages 2.9 goals a match this season; these two clubs’ recent matches point to about 2.0. Over 2.5 landed in 42% and both teams scored in 29% of their recent games.
Before kick-off the model’s pick was Southampton to win at 62% probability; it did not come in.
All figures come from the results archive and the league table in our data; nothing on this page is estimated. How the probabilities are produced
Settled
The model’s pre-match pick and how it went
- Pick
- Southampton to win
- Probability
- 62%
- Outcome
- Did not come in
Logged before kick-off, settled automatically against the final score and never edited afterwards. Full Championship record
Goals in recent matches
From the final scores of each club’s last settled matches: goals for and against per game, and how often over 2.5, both teams scoring and a clean sheet occurred.
| Club | P | For | Against | Over 2.5 | BTTS | Clean sheet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watford | 4 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 50% | 25% | 50% |
| Southampton | 3 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 33% | 33% | 67% |
Championship average this season: 2.9 goals per match.
Championship table: the two clubs
| # | Club | P | W-D-L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20. | Watford | 11 | 3-2-6 | 10:19 | 11 |
| 7. | Southampton | 11 | 6-3-2 | 21:10 | 17 |
Recent form
Last five settled matches before this fixture, newest first.
Watford
- HCrawley Town1–0W
- HFiorentina0–1L
- HHansa Rostock3–0W
- ABoreham Wood2–1L
Southampton
- AColchester United0–2W
- APreussen Münster1–2W
- AEintracht Braunschweig0–1W
Head-to-head
Meetings before this fixture, from the results archive (July 2026 onwards).
No previous meeting between these clubs in our results archive, which starts in July 2026.