Watford vs Crystal Palace: Premier League team news, kick-off time, likely line-ups, odds and stats

Ahead of this weekend’s Premier League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Watford’s home clash with Crystal Palace at Vicarage Road.

Watford team news 

Watford again have Stefano Okaka available for selection for the meeting with Crystal Palace following his recovery from a leg injury.

The striker’s return to full training comes with Nathaniel Chalobah and Gerard Deulofeu still absent as they pursue match fitness, and Miguel Britos being ruled out with a knock.

Beyond Britos, Watford’s only long-term absentee is Tom Cleverley, who is out until the autumn following surgery on his Achilles.

Provisional squad: Foster, Kabasele, Cathcart, Janmaat, Holebas, Hughes, Pereyra, Doucoure, Capoue, Gray, Deeney, Gomes, Prodl, Masina, Mariappa, Sema, Kiko, Success, Okaka

Crystal Palace team news

Aaron Wan-Bissaka will miss Crystal Palace’s Premier League clash at Watford on Sunday through suspension.

Wan-Bissaka was sent off in the 2-0 home loss to Liverpool on Monday night, and now serves a one-match ban.

Joel Ward and Martin Kelly are boss Roy Hodgson’s options to slot in at right-back, with the Eagles manager not so far concerned by any injuries.

Provisional squad: Hennessey, Guaita, Speroni, Ward, Tomkins, Sakho, Kelly, Riedewald, Van Aanholt, Schlupp, Townsend, McArthur, Milivojevic, Kouyate, Meyer, Puncheon, Kaikai, Ayew, Zaha, Sorloth, Benteke

Aaron Wan-Bissaka will miss the match after being sent off in the defeat to Liverpool

Aaron Wan-Bissaka will miss the match after being sent off in the defeat to Liverpool

Watford and Crystal Palace – Key match stats

*Stats supplied by Opta

Watford have won just two of their last 16 matches against Palace in all competitions (D4 L10).

Palace are unbeaten in seven league matches against Watford at Vicarage Road (W3 D4) since a 2-0 defeat in the Championship in February 2009.

Palace have lost just two of their last 10 Premier League games (W6 D2 L2), with both defeats coming at home against Liverpool.

Away from home, Palace have gone five games without defeat in the Premier League (W3 D2) – they last went unbeaten in six consecutive away top-flight matches in February 1992.

Wilfired Zaha needs just one more goal to become Palace's all-time top Premier League scorer

Wilfired Zaha needs just one more goal to become Palace’s all-time top Premier League scorer

Watford have lost just once in their last nine Premier League matches at Vicarage Road, winning five and drawing three.

Palace’s Wilfried Zaha needs one more goal to become the Eagles’ all-time highest Premier League goalscorer (currently 23, level with Chris Armstrong).

Wilfried Zaha has failed to score or assist in any of his six previous Premier League appearances against Watford for Palace.

Watford have scored just five goals in their last eight competitive meetings with Palace and four of these goals have been scored by Troy Deeney. Deeney also managed to net an own goal in one of these games; a 0-1 defeat at Selhurst Park in March 2017.

Troy Deeney has now scored in 99 different competitive matches for Watford – the only other Watford players to have scored in 100+ matches for the club are Luther Blissett, Tommy Barnett and Ross Jenkins.

WATFORD VS CRYSTAL PALACE 

Kick-off

Sunday, 1.30pm

Venue

Vicarage Road

Referee

Anthony Taylor 

Odds (subject to change)

Watford 13/8

Draw 11/5

Crystal Palace 2/1 

Head-to-head league record

Watford wins 36

Draws 23

Crystal Palace wins 45

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