Championship

Championship | Gameweek 40

Apr 5, 2025 at 3pm UK

Robins High Performance Centre

Bristol City
2 - 1
Watford

McCrorie (24'), Wells (29')
Earthy (69')

FT(HT: 2-0)

Doumbia (80')
Kayembe (90+6')

The Match

Preview

Sports Mole previews Saturday's Championship clash between Bristol City and Watford, including predictions, team news and possible lineups.

Form, Standings, Stats

Bristol City

All competitions

Last Game: Burnley 1-0 Bristol City
Saturday, March 29 at 3pm in Championship

Goals
for

Watford

All competitions

Last Game: Watford 0-0 Plymouth
Saturday, March 29 at 12.30pm in Championship

Goals
for

Data Analysis

Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats, suggests the most likely outcome of this match is a Bristol City win with a probability of 54.08%. A draw has a probability of 24.7% and a win for Watford has a probability of 21.23%.

The most likely scoreline for a Bristol City win is 1-0 with a probability of 12.69%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome are 2-0 (10.36%) and 2-1 (9.55%). The likeliest drawn scoreline is 1-1 (11.7%), while for a Watford win it is 0-1 (7.17%).

Result
Bristol City	Draw	Watford
54.08% ( -0.53)	24.69% ( 0.35)	21.23% ( 0.18)

Both teams to score 48.43% (

-0.78)

Goals

Over 2.5

Under 2.5

46.99% (

-1.16)

53.01% (

1.16)

Over 3.5

Under 3.5

25.4% (

-0.99)

74.6% (

Bristol City Goals

Over 0.5

Under 0.5

80.45% (

-0.65)

19.55% (

0.65)

Over 1.5

Under 1.5

48.54% (

-1.07)

51.46% (

1.07)

Watford Goals

Over 0.5

Under 0.5

60.2% (

-0.48)

39.79% (

0.48)

Over 1.5

Under 1.5

23.54% (

-0.44)

76.46% (

0.44)

Score Analysis

Bristol City 54.07%

Watford 21.23%

Draw 24.69%

Bristol City	Draw	Watford
1-0 @ 12.69% ( 0.32) 2-0 @ 10.36% ( 0.05) 2-1 @ 9.55% ( -0.08) 3-0 @ 5.64% ( -0.09) 3-1 @ 5.2% ( -0.15) 3-2 @ 2.39% ( -0.1) 4-0 @ 2.3% ( -0.09) 4-1 @ 2.12% ( -0.11) 4-2 @ 0.98% ( -0.06) Other @ 2.84% Total : 54.07%	1-1 @ 11.7% ( 0.15) 0-0 @ 7.78% ( 0.35) 2-2 @ 4.4% ( -0.09) Other @ 0.81% Total : 24.69%	0-1 @ 7.17% ( 0.23) 1-2 @ 5.39% ( -0) 0-2 @ 3.3% ( 0.07) 1-3 @ 1.66% ( -0.02) 2-3 @ 1.35% ( -0.05) 0-3 @ 1.01% ( 0.01) Other @ 1.35% Total : 21.23%

How you voted: Bristol City vs Watford

Bristol City

68.0%

Draw

12.0%

Watford

20.0%

Head to Head

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Watford

1-0

Bristol City

Andrews (54')
Sierralta (46'), Issouf Bayo (80')

Twine (72'), Pring (87')

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Gameweek 28

Bristol City

1-1

Watford

Twine (25')
McCrorie (36')

Dele-Bashiru (13' pen.)
Asprilla (14'), Andrews (40')

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Dec 26, 2023 3pm

Gameweek 24

Watford

1-4

Bristol City

Chakvetadze (49')
Hoedt (80')

Pring (28'), Hoedt (45+2' og.), Sykes (50'), Weimann (83')

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Gameweek 42

Watford

2-0

Bristol City

Cornick (6' og.), Pedro (54')

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Nov 12, 2022 3pm

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Bristol City

0-0

Watford

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Form Guide

Burnley 1-0 Bristol City

Bristol City 2-1 Norwich

Sheff Utd 1-1 Bristol City

Bristol City 1-1 Hull City

Millwall 0-2 Bristol City

Bristol City 2-1 Middlesbrough

Watford 0-0 Plymouth

Oxford Utd 1-0 Watford

Nations League

Spain

International Friendlies

Algeria

International Friendlies

Georgia

Belarus

International Friendlies

Singapore

Tajikistan

Congo DR

World Cup Qualifying - Asia

Australia

Saudi Arabia

Indonesia

South Korea

Palestine

Jordan

Qatar

World Cup Qualifying - North Central America

COSAFA Cup

Lesotho

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
C	Leeds United Leeds	46	29	13	4	95	30	65	100
P	Burnley	46	28	16	2	69	16	53	100
3	Sheffield United Sheff Utd	46	28	8	10	63	36	27	90
P	Sunderland	46	21	13	12	58	44	14	76
5	Coventry City Coventry	46	20	9	17	64	58	6	69
6	Bristol City	46	17	17	12	59	55	4	68
7	Blackburn Rovers Blackburn	46	19	9	18	53	48	5	66
8	Millwall	46	18	12	16	47	49	-2	66
9	West Bromwich Albion West Brom	46	15	19	12	57	47	10	64
10	Middlesbrough	46	18	10	18	64	56	8	64
11	Swansea City Swansea	46	17	10	19	51	56	-5	61
12	Sheffield Wednesday Sheff Weds	46	15	13	18	60	69	-9	58
13	Norwich City Norwich	46	14	15	17	71	68	3	57
14	Watford	46	16	9	21	53	61	-8	57
15	Queens Park Rangers QPR	46	14	14	18	53	63	-10	56
16	Portsmouth	46	14	12	20	58	71	-13	54
17	Oxford United Oxford Utd	46	13	14	19	49	65	-16	53
18	Stoke City Stoke	46	12	15	19	45	62	-17	51
19	Derby County Derby	46	13	11	22	48	56	-8	50
20	Preston North End Preston	46	10	20	16	48	59	-11	50
21	Hull City	46	12	13	21	44	54	-10	49
R	Luton Town Luton	46	13	10	23	45	69	-24	49
R	Plymouth Argyle Plymouth	46	11	13	22	51	88	-37	46
R	Cardiff City Cardiff	46	9	17	20	48	73	-25	44
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