Overview
- Kick-off is 8pm GMT on Friday at Vicarage Road with live coverage on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football.
- Watford’s home surge includes four successive wins, a 3-0 defeat of Middlesbrough and a 1-1 draw at Ipswich this week under returning manager Javi Gracia.
- Bookmakers price Watford as favourites at roughly 11-10 to 23-20, with Bristol City around 21-10 to 12-5 and the draw near 12-5.
- Bristol City travel with a lengthy injury list after losing 5-1 at Stoke and 1-0 to Blackburn, with Gerhard Struber cautioning that fitness for Friday is “not so good.”
- Previews highlight Imran Louza’s recent scoring run for Watford and suggest Bristol’s Zak Vyner as a likely booking, with predicted line-ups naming Louza and Vyner to start.