Watford 1-0 Stoke City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 20 December 2025

Result

Watford 1-0 Stoke City

Championship · Saturday 20 December 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Watford 1-0 Stoke City: match report

Watford beat Stoke City 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 20 December 2025. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Luca Kjerrumgaard of Watford in the 74th minute.

Discipline: Watford received 3 yellow cards; Stoke City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Watford were 14th on 29 points from 21 and Stoke City 7th on 33 points from 21. Watford went on to finish that season 16th with 57 points, and Stoke City 17th with 55.

Watford lined up in a 4-4-2 and Stoke City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Luca Kjerrumgaard of Watford (7.6), ahead of Hector Kyprianou (7.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Watford wins, 3 draws and 2 for Stoke City.

Going into the match Watford's last five read D-D-W-L-D and Stoke City's W-L-L-L-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 30'Yellow card · Róbert BoženíkStoke City
  • 59'Yellow card · Sorba ThomasStoke City
  • 66'Yellow card · Vivaldo SemedoWatford
  • 69'Yellow card · Mattie PollockWatford
  • 74'Goal · Luca KjerrumgaardWatford · 1-0
  • 83'Yellow card · Maksym TaloverovStoke City
  • 89'Yellow card · Nestory IrankundaWatford

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Watford 5, draws 3, Stoke City 2.

Team news

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Watford line-up (4-4-2)

Egil Selvik, Jeremy Ngakia, Mattie Pollock, Max Lewis Rowe Alleyne, Marc Bola, Tom Ince, Hector Kyprianou, Imrân Louza, Othmane Maamma, Giorgi Chakvetadze, Luca Kjerrumgaard

Stoke City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Viktor Johansson, Maksym Taloverov, Ashley Phillips, Ben Wilmot, Aaron Cresswell, Bosun Lawal, Steven Nzonzi, Million Manhoef, Jun-ho Bae, Sorba Thomas, Róbert Boženík