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
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.
Key events
- 30'Yellow card · Róbert Boženík
- 59'Yellow card · Sorba Thomas
- 66'Yellow card · Vivaldo Semedo
- 69'Yellow card · Mattie Pollock
- 74'Goal · Luca Kjerrumgaard
- 83'Yellow card · Maksym Taloverov
- 89'Yellow card · Nestory Irankunda
Head-to-head
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