Watford vs Coventry City Prediction: Both teams lost before international break

Watford faces Coventry City at Vicarage Road in English Championship Game Week 5. Both teams lost the game before the international break. Who will win after 90 minutes?

Watford Form

After a disappointing pre-season schedule, where they were defeated by Gillingham and Wycombe Wanderers, Watford thrived in August on a fantastic run of Championship and EFL Cup matches, scoring 15 goals within the series of their wins. Their string of bad luck started at the beginning of September when Sheffield United defeated them 1-0 after Daniel Bachmann scored an early goal that counted against him.

This leaves Watford sitting third with nine points from their first four Championship games, behind leaders Sunderland who are still undefeated. News from Vicarage Road is that Tom Cleverley has been shortlisted for the Championship Manager of the Month award for August, only for his best start under his leadership in his first full season as head coach.

Ed Keyembe, who scored only five goals for Watford in the entire of last season, already had scored three for Watford in the Championship this season. His brace against Stoke City shall be cherished forever.

Watford Suspected Lineup

Bachmann; Pollock, Sierralta, Morris; Andrews, Sissoko, Dele-Bashiru, Sema; Kayembe, Chakvetadze; Bayo

Coventry City form

In the third season, Coventry City tries to book a ticket to the Premier League. All attempts failed both in 2023 and 2024. The current season doesn't start that well either, scoring only four points from four matches and staying in the 17th place in the Championship table. For this season, they hope to enter the playoff places, so they are targeting any place higher than the sixth one.

After back-to-back home victories over Oxford United, Coventry City lost to Norwich before the international break. The expected boost for the duo's front-line offence will depend on the combination of youngsters Haji Wright and Ellis Simms, who scored 29 strikes during the past season.

Coventry City faces a match against Vicarage Road this weekend with the hope of clinching their third successive game at the stadium from the good win in March, after Haji Wright's two important goals.

Coventry City Projected Lineup

Dovin; Van Ewijk, Latibeaudiere, Binks, Bidwell; Eccles, Allen, Mason-Clark, Rudoni, Wright; Simms

Watford vs Coventry City Expert Prediction

Watford becomes a real powerhouse at Vicarage Road this season, gaining four successive matches in the different competitions with a score of 12-1. Such a track record should boost up their confidence to face Coventry this weekend, and thus we could predict that their match against Coventry would end in a small win for Watford.