Watford v Millwall
Championship | Vicarage Road
Saturday, 28 October 2023 @ 3.00pm
Watford host Millwall on Saturday at Vicarage Road in the Championship.
In their last league match, on Tuesday, Watford beat Swansea City 1-0 away, with their goal scored by Ken Sema.
Millwall lost, 2-1 at home against Blackburn Rovers, with Harding scoring their goals.
In the last 10 years, Watford and Millwall have played each other on nine occasions. Watford won four of them, Millwall three, and they drew twice.
On average, the Hornets scored 1.3 goals and the Lions 1.0 in those matches.
Their last meeting was on December 26, when Millwall won 2-0 away.
In Daniel Bachmann, Watford can rely on one of the league's safest pair of hands. He has kept five clean sheets in his 13 appearances this season, and only two other 'keepers – West Bromwich Albion's Alex Palmer and Ipswich Town's Václav Hladký – have been able to prevent the opposition scoring on more occasions in the Championship.
In Millwall's net, Bartosz Bialkowski has three clean sheets in eight games. He has conceded a goal every 65 minutes, 10% more often than the 73 minutes between goals for Bachmann.
The Hornets are in mixed form in the Championship, with two wins and a draw from their last six games.
With a win and three draws over that period, the Lions' form is slightly worse – they have taken six points from 18, compared to the hosts' seven.
With 13 goals in 13 games so far this season, the away side are scoring at below the league average rate with 1.0 goals per game. But they are conceding fewer than average too, letting in 16 goals at a rate of 1.2 per game.
Watford are also below average scorers, with 1.2 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.4. They have also conceded 1.2 goals per game.
Millwall are 16th in the table after 13 games, of which they have won four and drawn four, earning 16 points.
Watford are one place ahead of Millwall in 15th, with four wins and four draws putting them on the same number of points.
Saturday's match will be refereed by Keith Stroud, who has taken charge of seven Championship games so far this season, issuing one red card and booking 40 players. He has not awarded any penalties.
The last Watford game Stroud refereed was a 2-0 home win against Birmingham City on September 16. His last Millwall match was their 1-0 loss at home against Bristol City on August 12.