Watford vs Southampton stats and head-to-head

2025-26. Sat, 30 Aug 2025

WatfordHome

22Full time, half-time 0–1

SouthamptonAway

Draw. Goal margin: 0.

LLLLLLeague form, oldest to newestWWDDW

Restored from the 11 October backup. Current updates are not connected.

Vicarage Road. Photo: Jbb503, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and resized.

Stored context before this match

Before this match, Watford have 1 scored home results and Southampton 1 scored away results stored in 2025-26. Statistical pre-kickoff PPG: Watford at home: 3.00 points per match (1 measured matches); Southampton away: 1.00 points per match (1 measured matches). Observed points use 3 for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss, before official adjustments. Watford scored 2.00 per home match (1 measured match); Southampton scored 1.00 away (1). The competition's pooled scoring average was 1.30 per club appearance across 80 measured appearances. Both sides scored in 2 of 2 pooled club appearances (100.0%). A shared fixture counts once for each club's record. Earlier stored meetings: 10. Watford: 2 wins; Southampton: 4 wins; draws: 4.

Only scored source results before the recorded kickoff enter this statistical brief; same-day records with unknown kickoff order are excluded.

A plain reading of the stored figures. No verified written preview is current for this match.

How the goals came

No timeline: goal minutes, cards and substitutions are not stored for this match. The goals are shown by half instead.

First half01

Second half21

The match in numbers

WatfordSouthampton

10Shots12
4Shots on target7
4Corners5
14Fouls12
2Yellow cards5
0Red cards0

From shots to goals

Watford

Shots10
On target4
Goals2

40% of shots on target, 50% of those scored.

Southampton

Shots12
On target7
Goals2

58% of shots on target, 29% of those scored.

Counts only. Shot positions are not stored, so no shot map is drawn.

Prediction

Prototype model, not yet validated

No prediction is shown for a finished match. The model keeps no figure from before kick-off, so showing one now would be written with the result already known.

How the model works

Head to head

Meetings before this match. Same-day meetings qualify only when both recorded kickoff times establish an earlier start.

10 valid scored meetings from a bounded window of up to 10 stored meetings, any competition. Clean sheets count each named club separately; a 0–0 gives both clubs a clean sheet.

Watford wins

Draws

Southampton wins

Goals / meeting

2.80

28 goals in 10 meetings

Both scored

80%

8 of 10 meetings

Over 1.5

90%

9 of 10 meetings

Over 2.5

50%

5 of 10 meetings

Over 3.5

30%

3 of 10 meetings

Watford clean sheets

10%

1 of 10 meetings

Southampton clean sheets

10%

1 of 10 meetings

Corners / meeting

10.70

10 with corner data

Cards / meeting

4.10

10 with card data

Southampton v WatfordSat, 13 Apr 2024 · EFL Championship 2023-243–2HT 2–1
Watford v SouthamptonSat, 9 Dec 2023 · EFL Championship 2023-241–1HT 0–0
Southampton v WatfordSun, 13 Mar 2022 · Premier League 2021-221–2HT 1–2
Watford v SouthamptonSat, 30 Oct 2021 · Premier League 2021-220–1HT 0–1
Watford v SouthamptonSun, 28 Jun 2020 · Premier League 2019-201–3HT 0–1
Southampton v WatfordSat, 30 Nov 2019 · Premier League 2019-202–1HT 0–1
Watford v SouthamptonTue, 23 Apr 2019 · Premier League 2018-191–1HT 0–1
Southampton v WatfordSat, 10 Nov 2018 · Premier League 2018-191–1HT 1–0
Watford v SouthamptonSat, 13 Jan 2018 · Premier League 2017-182–2HT 0–2
Southampton v WatfordSat, 9 Sept 2017 · Premier League 2017-180–2HT 0–1

Latest stored form

These are the clubs’ latest stored results across competitions, independent of this fixture’s date.

Home and away All matches

Watford at homeWLDWLL

Sat, 10 Octv Burnley0–4C ––– · Y –––
Sat, 12 Septv Stoke1–2C 5–8 · Y 2–2
Tue, 8 Septv Preston2–1C 2–4 · Y 0–2
Sat, 29 Augv West Ham1–1C 3–11 · Y 3–1
Tue, 25 Augv Peterboro1–5C ––– · Y –––
Sun, 16 Augv Southampton2–1C 4–8 · Y 6–3

Southampton awayWWLDDL

Any competition, newest first. The form chips read oldest to newest. C = corners, Y = cards (for and against).

Stored season rate grid

Arithmetic averages of both clubs' stored whole-season rates, with each source sample shown. These aggregates can include results after this fixture.

Home and away Overall

Watford at home, Southampton away

72%
Both teams scored
League 57%
23 + 23 matches
98%
Over 0.5 goals
League 94%
23 + 23 matches
94%
Over 1.5 goals
League 76%
23 + 23 matches
59%
Over 2.5 goals
League 51%
23 + 23 matches
30%
Over 3.5 goals
League 25%
23 + 23 matches
11%
Over 4.5 goals
League 10%
23 + 23 matches
3.0
Avg total goals
League 2.61
23 + 23 matches
67%
1st half over 0.5
League 72%
23 + 23 matches
39%
1st half over 1.5
League 35%
23 + 23 matches
10.2
Corners per match
League 10.35
23 + 23 matches
65%
Corners over 8.5
League 68%
23 + 23 matches
50%
Corners over 9.5
League 55%
23 + 23 matches
48%
Corners over 10.5
League 45%
23 + 23 matches
4.3
Cards per match
League 3.81
23 + 23 matches
63%
Cards over 3.5
League 52%
23 + 23 matches
37%
Cards over 4.5
League 33%
23 + 23 matches

Stored season context, 2025-26

Season figures include all stored results in this competition-season. Ratings use the latest stored calculation; these sections can include information after this fixture.

Season comparison, 2025-26

Home and away Overall

Watford at home, Southampton away

Watford (home)		Southampton (away)
16	Position	4
WDDLL	Last 5, oldest to newest	DWWWW
23	Played	23
1.61	Points per match	1.57
43%	Win %	43%
1.30	Scored / match	1.91
1.17	Conceded / match	1.61
2.48	Avg total goals	3.52
52%	Both scored	91%
22%	Clean sheets	4%
30%	Failed to score	4%
–	xG for	–
–	xG against	–

Half by half

WatfordSouthampton

0.651st half scored / match0.74
0.571st half conceded / match0.57
0.652nd half scored / match1.17
0.612nd half conceded / match1.04
26%Leading at half-time30%
65%1st half over 0.570%
44%1st half over 1.535%
78%2nd half over 0.587%
44%2nd half over 1.574%
26%Scored in both halves22%

Goals, shots, corners and cards

Watford at home, Southampton away, this season.

Goals

WatfordSouthampton

1.30Scored / match1.91
1.17Conceded / match1.61
2.48Match total / match3.52
70%Scored 1+96%
44%Scored 2+52%
78%Conceded 1+96%
30%Conceded 2+39%
87%Match over 1.5100%
44%Match over 2.574%
17%Match over 3.544%

Shots and xG

WatfordSouthampton

15.78Shots for13.43
11.22Shots against14.04
5.39On target for5.30
3.74On target against4.13
8%Shot conversion14%

Corners

WatfordSouthampton

5.43Corners for5.22
4.74Corners against5.09
10.17Match total10.30
83%Over 7.574%
65%Over 8.565%
52%Over 9.548%
48%Over 10.548%
35%Over 11.539%

Cards

WatfordSouthampton

1.87Cards for2.17
2.48Cards against2.04
4.35Match total4.22
83%Over 2.591%
57%Over 3.570%
39%Over 4.535%
35%Over 5.517%
11.13Fouls committed11.48

Referee this season

F Hallam

Matches

Cards / match

3.86

21 matches

Over 3.5 cards

48%

21 matches

Over 4.5 cards

38%

21 matches

Fouls / match

21.10

21 matches

The table, 2025-26

#	Club	P	GD	Pts
2	Ipswich	46	33	84
3	Millwall	46	15	83
4	Southampton	46	26	80
5	Middlesbrough	46	25	80
6	Hull	46	4	73
14	Preston	46	-7	60
15	QPR	46	-12	58
16	Watford	46	-12	57
17	Stoke	46	-5	55
18	Portsmouth	46	-15	55

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