Burnley v Watford Betting Tips [5 February 2022]

Watford’s return to the Premier League hasn’t been as rosy as they’d have expected; they are struggling in the lower reaches of the league table and will hope to rise when they visit Burnley. Both sides are struggling in the relegation zone, which makes this one of the interesting matches to follow this weekend. Hosts Burnley have managed 12 points so far, and are at the bottom of the league standings. This season, in the league, Burnley have managed the least number of wins – just one – in 18 matches. Ahead of this game they put up a spirited performance to draw with Arsenal 0-0, also keeping a second clean sheet in six matches. They have no win in the last nine matches and at home, in the last 10 games, they have two wins only. In their 18 league matches, Burnley have scored 16 goals, that is less than a goal per game on average.

Watford are 19th in the league table, just two points ahead of Burnley and two below the safe line. They have picked just one point in their last eight league matches, which makes them the team with the poorest form going into this round of matches. An unstable season has seen Watford fire two managers already, the most recent a title winner, Claudio Ranieri. The Italian’s sacking came on the back of a 3-0 loss to fellow survival hopefuls Norwich City. That loss saw the two sides swap places and now new manager Roy Hodgson is expected to tidy up things. Watford are so poor that in their last nine matches they’ve lost eight games and they haven’t managed more than a goal in their last eight matches.

Two struggling teams face off here and one thing that stands out is that they haven’t been scoring a lot, though their matches have occasionally posted high scores. The two have been on the receiving end mostly and we will be backing this game to have under 2.5 goals.