FA CUP SUNDAY: We preview Sunday’s FA Cup Semi-Final between WATFORD v WOLVES with a recommended BETDAQ bet and extended match stats.
WATFORD V WOLVES
4pm This is undoubtedly the highlight of both sides season and what an occasion for both sets of fans. Wembley will be a rocking on Sunday afternoon and this should be an excellent clash between two evenly matched sides. There’s only one point between the sides in the Premier League table with Wolves in 7th and Watford in 8th and we expect a very close game here.
The match odds at the time of writing currently trade; Watford 3.1, Wolves 2.58 and the draw is 3.35. Wolves beat Manchester United 2-1 to reach this semi-final and they repeated that scoreline when warming up for this clash during the week. Watford were recently beaten 2-1 by Untied; however they did boss the opening part of the game and they warmed up for this game by putting four goals past Fulham.
Watford are in good form coming into this clash – they’ve won four of their last seven with the three games they didn’t win coming against Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool. Wolves look a little short at 2.58 from a value point of view – there won’t be much between the sides here and we thought the odds should be a little bit closer together.
A draw at 3.35 is a tempting bet, as is over 2.5 goals at 2.2. Looking at both sides form, they rarely fail to score and we’re bound to see plenty of chances in a high tempo game. We’re happy to back the draw at 3.35 on balance – it’s hard to see anything but a very close game here and the 3.35 looks good value.
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Draw at 3.35.
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MATCH STATS
- This will be the eighth FA Cup match between Watford and Wolves, with the Hornets winning just one of the seven previous encounters – a 3-0 victory in the fifth round in February 1980.
- Wolves’ second ever biggest FA Cup victory came against Watford back in January 1912, thrashing the then non-league outfit 10-0 in a first round replay.
- Watford have only lost one of their last five matches against Wolves in all competitions (W2 D2), a 0-1 defeat at Vicarage Road in December 2014 in the Championship.
- Wolves are playing in their 15 th FA Cup semi-final and first since 1998. They’ve been eliminated each of the last four times they’ve reached this stage, last progressing in 1960 en route to winning the trophy under Stan Cullis.
- Watford will play their seventh FA Cup semi-final, only managing to progress on one previous occasion – a 1-0 victory over Plymouth back during the 1983-84 campaign. Indeed, of sides to appear in at last five FA Cup semi-finals, Watford have the joint- lowest progression rate alongside Fulham (1/6 – 17%).
- Wolves have won their last six games at Wembley Stadium – only Arsenal (7 between May 2014 and May 2017) and Tottenham (7 between January-March 2018) have won more consecutively at the ground.
- Watford have won just one of their six games in all competitions at Wembley Stadium (2-0 v Bolton in May 1999) losing each of their last four at the ground.
- Watford skipper Troy Deeney has had a direct hand in nine goals in his last 13 FA Cup appearances, scoring five and assisting four.
- Each of Watford’s seven FA Cup goals this season have been assisted by different players (Masina, Sema, Hughes, Quina, Cleverley, Cathcart and Pereyra).
- Only Padraig Amond (5) has scored in more different rounds of the FA Cup this season than Wolves striker Raul Jimenez, with the Mexican netting in the third, fourth and quarter-final rounds.
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