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West Brom vs Watford live score: Latest updates from Premier League clash at The Hawthorns
Watford travel to West Brom looking to continue their rich vein of form under Marco Silva
- The Baggies have failed to score in three of their four Premier League encounters with Watford, winning the other 3-1 at the Hawthorns last season.
- The Hornets have lost four of their last five top-flight visits to the Hawthorns against West Brom, winning the other in April 2016 courtesy of a Ben Watson strike.
- Watford received a red card in each of their two Premier League games against West Brom in 2016/17, with Roberto Pereyra sent off at the Hawthorns and Miguel Britos collecting the second of his three Premier League red cards in the game at Vicarage Road.
- Watford will be looking for a fourth successive league away win in this match – they have already set a new club record of three consecutive top-flight away victories coming in to this game.
- The Hornets have won 11 points from their six Premier League games in 2017-18 so far; their second best tally after six matches of a top-flight season and just behind the 12 points they won in 1982-83 at this stage.
- West Brom have gone 39 Premier League games without being awarded a penalty, the longest wait among current sides in the competition.
- The Baggies have the lowest average possession figure this season in the Premier League (37.3%) and have completed a league-low 1300 successful passes.
- West Brom’s next Premier League defeat will be their 200th in the competition.
- Tony Pulis has now managed 100 Premier League games for West Bromwich Albion and in those matches the Baggies have scored exactly 100 goals.
- In fact, in the 316 Premier League games that Pulis has taken charge of overall, his sides have scored 314 goals – just below an average of a goal per game.
- Since Tony Pulis took charge of West Brom in January 2015, 14 different clubs have been ever-present in the competition and have played 100 matches in this period. Of those 14 clubs, WBA have the 12th best points total (122), only above Crystal Palace (114) and Swansea (120)
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