Stoke City 0-1 Watford: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 24 October 2015
Result
Stoke City 0-1 Watford
Premier League · Saturday 24 October 2015, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Stoke City 0-1 Watford: match report
Stoke City lost to Watford 0-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 24 October 2015. The half-time score was 0-1.
Troy Deeney opened the scoring in the 43rd minute. Stoke City did not score. Watford scored through Troy Deeney (43') and Almen Abdi (69').
Discipline: Stoke City received 3 yellow cards; Watford received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Stoke City were 14th on 10 points from 9 and Watford 16th on 9 points from 9. Stoke City went on to finish that season 13th with 45 points, and Watford 12th with 48.
Stoke City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Watford in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Almen Abdi of Watford (8.5), ahead of Odion Ighalo (8.1).
Going into the match Stoke City's last five read W-W-D-D-L and Watford's L-D-L-W-W.
Key events
- 43'Goal · Troy Deeney
- 69'Goal · Almen Abdi
- 77'Yellow card · Glenn Whelan
- 89'Yellow card · Odion Ighalo
- 89'Yellow card · Erik Pieters
- 90'Yellow card · Charlie Adam
Team news
Stoke City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jack Butland, Glen Johnson, Geoff Cameron, Philipp Wollscheid, Erik Pieters, Charlie Adam, Glenn Whelan, Xherdan Shaqiri, Bojan Krkic, Marko Arnautovic, Joselu
Watford line-up (4-2-3-1)
Heurelho Gomes, Allan Nyom, Craig Cathcart, Miguel Britos, Nathan Aké, Ben Watson, Étienne Capoue, Ikechi Anya, Troy Deeney, Almen Abdi, Odion Ighalo