Premier League

Watford 3-2 Aston Villa

Competition Premier League Season 2021/2022 Country England Venue Venue to confirm

Your time 14 Aug 2021, 14:00 Venue time 14 Aug 2021, 15:00 BST

Watford vs Aston Villa finished 3-2 in Premier League. Key event: 1' Emiliano Buendía (assist Ashley Young · xG 0.03 · Right Foot · Open Play · location 78%, 55.4%). Head to head: H2H last 4 before 14 Aug 2021: 3 W / 0 D / 1 L for Watford. Home form: W L W W L; Away form: W W L D L. Also shown: timeline, team statistics, lineups, top players, recent team results.

Match preview 2 facts

Form before this match (14 Aug 2021): up to 5 scored matches per team, latest first. W = win, D = draw, L = loss. Each row states its sample size.

Home form W L W W L Matches: 5 · 9 pts, goals 4-3, 0.80 scored/match, 0.60 conceded/match

Away form W W L D L Matches: 5 · 7 pts, goals 7-8, 1.40 scored/match, 1.60 conceded/match

Timeline 39 events

1' shot Emiliano Buendía AST assist Ashley Young xG 0.03 · Right Foot · Open Play · location 78%, 55.4%

2' shot Ismaila Sarr WAT xG 0.04 · Right Foot · From Corner · location 84.2%, 37.3%

9' shot Emmanuel Dennis WAT assist Ismaila Sarr xG 0.12 · Right Foot · Open Play · location 89.7%, 42.3%

9' shot Emmanuel Dennis WAT xG 0.11 · Right Foot · Open Play · location 89.9%, 43.7%

10' Goal Emmanuel Dennis 1–0 WAT Goal

23' Yellow Juraj Kucka WAT Yellow card

27' shot Ismaila Sarr WAT assist Emmanuel Dennis xG 0.05 · Right Foot · Open Play · location 76.6%, 40%

28' shot Emmanuel Dennis WAT assist Ismaila Sarr xG 0.09 · Right Foot · Open Play · location 95%, 31%

31' shot Juraj Kucka WAT assist Emmanuel Dennis xG 0.08 · Right Foot · Open Play · location 81.6%, 62.9%

32' shot Ashley Young AST assist Matt Targett xG 0.02 · Open Play · location 90.2%, 65.3%

39' shot Christian Kabasele WAT assist Ken Sema xG 0.42 · Set Piece · location 93.2%, 46.2%

41' shot Ismaila Sarr WAT assist Emmanuel Dennis xG 0.08 · Right Foot · Open Play · location 89.4%, 29.8%

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42' shot Juraj Kucka WAT assist Ismaila Sarr xG 0.02 · Left Foot · Open Play · location 73.8%, 52.6%

42' Goal Ismaïla Sarr 2–0 WAT assist Emmanuel Dennis

46' Sub Jacob Ramsey AST on for Matt Targett

48' shot Jacob Ramsey AST xG 0.03 · Left Foot · From Corner · location 81.1%, 41.2%

49' shot John McGinn AST xG 0.02 · Left Foot · Open Play · location 78.4%, 58.1%

50' shot Emmanuel Dennis WAT assist Ismaila Sarr xG 0.13 · Right Foot · Open Play · location 86.3%, 68.2%

54' Yellow Tyrone Mings AST Yellow card

55' Yellow Ken Sema WAT Yellow card

60' Sub Leon Bailey AST on for Anwar El Ghazi

63' shot Emmanuel Dennis WAT assist Ken Sema xG 0.14 · Right Foot · Open Play · location 85.6%, 51.8%

66' shot Juan Camilo Hernández WAT assist Tom Cleverley xG 0.04 · Right Foot · Open Play · location 83.7%, 71.7%

66' Sub Cucho Hernández WAT on for Emmanuel Dennis · Injury substitution

67' Goal Cucho Hernández 3–0 WAT assist Tom Cleverley

69' shot John McGinn AST assist Leon Bailey xG 0.03 · Left Foot · Open Play · location 82.9%, 50.8%

69' Sub Dan Gosling WAT on for Juraj Kucka

70' Goal John McGinn 3–1 AST assist Leon Bailey

72' Sub Bertrand Traoré AST on for Emiliano Buendía

79' Sub Troy Deeney WAT on for Tom Cleverley

82' shot Leon Bailey AST assist Jacob Ramsey xG 0.08 · Right Foot · Open Play · location 88.2%, 65.4%

86' Yellow Peter Etebo WAT Yellow card

87' shot Leon Bailey AST xG 0.05 · Left Foot · Direct Freekick · location 72.9%, 59.6%

89' shot Juan Camilo Hernández WAT assist Oghenekaro Etebo xG 0.03 · Right Foot · Open Play · location 82.2%, 74.6%

89' shot John McGinn AST assist Ashley Young xG 0.03 · Left Foot · Open Play · location 80.1%, 65.8%

90+7' Goal Danny Ings 3–2 AST Penalty

96' shot Danny Ings AST xG 0.76 · Right Foot · location 88.5%, 50%

97' shot Matthew Cash AST xG 0.01 · Right Foot · Open Play · location 78.5%, 30.3%

97' shot Bertrand Traoré AST assist Matthew Cash xG 0.08 · Left Foot · Open Play · location 85.3%, 41.7%

Shot map 24 shots · 5 goals

Both teams attack from left to right. The attacking half is shown when every location fits it; larger markers represent higher xG.

Watford 13 shots · 1.36 xG · 3 goals

Aston Villa 11 shots · 1.14 xG · 2 goals

Attempt Goal Marker size = xG

Latest team results

Latest 12 recorded results shown; this match is excluded. Includes 12 after this match (14 Aug 2021). These rows are separate from the pre-match sample. Form badges refer to the period before each listed fixture.

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