Thread by @BigManBakar

Watford FC - A thread

Greetings everyone. Is anyone from the Watford squad worth considering? I share my thoughts on Sarr, Bachmann and Watford down below:

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Watford come into the 21/22 Premier League season having had their pre-season highly disrupted with constant rotation and injuries. In three of their recent pre-season friendlies against Premier League standard opposition (Brentford, Arsenal and Crystal Palace), they conceded...

... 10 goals which doesn’t bode well for them as ideally you would want to be starting the season high on confidence. This is all the more surprising because Watford are the most defensively astute team among the promoted teams this season. They conceded the least number of...

... goals that anyone has in the Championship in the past 15 years, keeping a highly impressive 11 clean sheets in their last 13 matches under Xisco Munoz. In fact, they conceded no goals in their last seven Championship fixtures. Watford managed to keep 61% of their...

... clean sheets at home and 39% of those away from home. 40% of their goals were conceded at home and 60% away following a similar trend as the clean sheets. Daniel Bachmann stands out as the player who could get save and bonus points which means that he has a...

... high ceiling, particularly if Watford are to be involved in low scoring games as I suspect. He made the fewest number of saves in the Championship last season because of how solid were but I believe his frequency of saves will definitely increase in the Premier League...

... given the number of times he will be called upon. He saved three penalties in a cup game penalty shootout last season as well as a penalty in the Championship. Francisco Sierralta, with a height of 6feet 4inches, is an absolute monster in the air and has the greatest goal...

... threat among all Watford defenders, accumulating the highest number of shots among Watford defenders last season. However, he is prone to yellow cards having accumulated nine yellow cards in 24 games. If you want to avoid that, then Kiko Femenia is the safest pick...

Watford scored 70% of their goals at home and 30% of their goals away from home last season. In fact, they scored just 19 goals in 23 games away from home which highlights how negative they are in such games. Watford were 4th in the championship for xG, accumulating a tally...

... of 68.1 which was significantly less than that of Brentford's 76.2 and Norwich's 77. However, a large part of this was down to Watford's first half of the season under a different manager. Under Xisco, they averaged 1.54 per game as compared to 1.15 goals per game under...

... his predecessor. That is still however, less than Brentford's average of 1.72 goals per game and Norwich's average of 1.63 goals per game last season. Watford’s attacking potential does seem somewhat limited which makes me feel that they are a team to target for...

... clean sheets given their approach and lack of quality upfront to support Sarr. Ismaïla Sarr is Watford’s main man and their matchwinner. Under Xisco, he plays as the right winger in a 4-3-3. He registered eight goals and two assists in his last 14 appearances and had the...

... highest xG of 10.13 among all Watford players. He was also second among them for chances created, registering a 37% goal involvement rate over the season. Interestingly, he took all penalties that he won when Troy Deeney wasn’t on the field. None of the other players are...

... worth considering realistically. Deeney and King are likely to be locked in rotation over the season, while Sema now has competition from Cucho and Dennis on the left. Cucho at £5m has played a lot in pre-season and is worth keeping an eye on, as he’s the most cheap...

.. striker in the game with a realistic chance of continuously starting. João Pedro (£5.5m) had eleven attacking involvements last season with a xG of 9.53, but he is raw. He is another one worth monitoring over the course of the season.

In my previous three threads, I did a similar preview for Norwich, Brentford and an overview of all my pre-season work so far. You can check the three threads through the links down below:

https://twitter.com/BigManBakar/status/1425566318976188425

https://twitter.com/BigManBakar/status/1425391330142867457

https://twitter.com/BigManBakar/status/1424095007804469253

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