Swansea City v Watford
Championship | Swansea.com Stadium
Tuesday, 24 October 2023 @ 7.45pm
Swansea City host Watford on Tuesday at the Swansea.com Stadium in the Championship.
In their last league match, on Saturday, Swansea lost to Leicester City 3-1 at home, with their goal scored by Matt Grimes.
Watford won, 1-0 at home against Sheffield Wednesday, with Yaser Asprilla scoring their goals.
With 19 goals in 12 games so far this season, Swansea are scoring more than average in the league with 1.6 goals per game. And they are conceding at an average rate, letting in 17 goals at a rate of 1.4 per game.
Watford, meanwhile, are below average scorers, with 1.2 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.4. They have conceded 1.3 goals per game.
In the last 10 years, Swansea and Watford have played each other on 11 occasions. They won five each, and they drew once.
On average, the Swans scored 1.2 goals and the Hornets 1.0 in those matches.
Their last meeting was on December 30, when Swansea won 4-0 at home.
In Daniel Bachmann, the Hornets can rely on one of the league's safest pair of hands. He has kept four clean sheets in his 12 appearances this season, and only three other 'keepers – West Bromwich Albion's Alex Palmer, Leeds United's Illan Meslier and Ipswich Town's Václav Hladký – have been able to prevent the opposition scoring on more occasions in the Championship.
In City's net, Carl Rushworth has two clean sheets in 12 games.
The away side are 19th in the table after 12 games, of which they have won three and drawn four, earning 13 points.
The Swans are two places ahead of Watford in 17th, with four wins and three draws putting them on 15 points.
The hosts are in good form in the Championship, with four wins and a draw from their last six games.
With a win and two draws over that period, Watford's form is much less good – they have taken five points from 18, compared to Swansea's 13.