Watford 1-0 Norwich City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 26 December 2020
Result
Watford 1-0 Norwich City
Championship · Saturday 26 December 2020, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
Watford 1-0 Norwich City: match report
Watford won against Norwich City 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 26 December 2020. It was 1-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Ismaïla Sarr of Watford in the 39th minute.
Discipline: Watford received 4 yellow cards; Norwich City received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Watford were 6th on 34 points from 20 and Norwich City 1st on 43 points from 20. Watford went on to finish that season 3rd with 91 points, and Norwich City 1st with 97.
Watford lined up in a 4-4-2 and Norwich City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Emiliano Buendía of Norwich City (8.1), ahead of Grant Hanley (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Watford wins, 2 draws and 4 for Norwich City.
Going into the match Watford's last five read L-D-W-W-L and Norwich City's W-W-W-W-W.
Key events
- 18'Yellow card · Étienne Capoue
- 39'Goal · Ismaïla Sarr
- 63'Yellow card · Tom Cleverley
- 78'Yellow card · Ismaïla Sarr
- 87'Yellow card · W. Hughes
Head-to-head
Team news
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- Tom Dele-Bashiru
- Domingos Quina
- Adam Idah
- William Troost-Ekong
- Ørjan Nyland
- Isaac Success
- Onel Hernández
- Marco Stiepermann
Watford line-up (4-4-2)
Ben Foster, Kiko Femenía, Francisco Sierralta, Ben Wilmot, Jeremy Ngakia, Ismaïla Sarr, Tom Cleverley, Étienne Capoue, Ken Sema, Andre Gray, Troy Deeney
Norwich City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Michael McGovern, Max Aarons, Christoph Zimmermann, Grant Hanley, Jacob Lungi Sørensen, Kenny McLean, Oliver Skipp, Emiliano Buendía, Kieran Dowell, Todd Cantwell, Teemu Pukki