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Watford have won four of their last five league matches against Aston Villa (L1), just one fewer than they had in their first 16 meetings with the Villans (W5 D5 L6).
Villa have lost just one of their last nine home league meetings with Watford (W6 D2), going down 3-2 in November 2015.
Watford are the only side yet to score from outside the box in the Premier League this season. Indeed, of teams with at least 50 goals in the competition’s history, only Wimbledon (9.1 per cent) have scored a lower percentage from distance than Watford's 9.7 per cent, (29 out of 299).
Twenty-year-old Jacob Ramsey has scored five Premier League goals for Villa this season. Only two players have scored more in a single campaign for the club while aged under 21 – Luke Moore in 2005/06 (eight) and Gabriel Agbonlahor in 2006/07 (nine).
Match officials
Referee: Robert Jones. Assistants: Simon Long, Scott Ledger. Fourth official: Martin Atkinson. VAR: Paul Tierney. Assistant VAR: Lee Betts.