Watford vs Tottenham - as it happened: Harry Kane and Dele Alli both see double as Spurs cruise to victory
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KICK-OFF: 13:30, Sunday 1 January 2017
TV: Live on Sky Sports 1
Teams...
Watford (3-4-2-1): Gomes; Kaboul, Prödl, Cathcart; Zúñiga, Capoue, Guedioura, Holebas; Amrabat, Doucouré; Deeney.
Tottenham Hotspur (4-2-3-1): Lloris; Trippier, Alderweireld, Wimmer, Rose; Dier, Wanyama; Son, Alli, Eriksen; Kane.
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It’s a big game for…
Younes Kaboul. The Frenchman plied his trade for Sunday’s visitors for five years and will want to get one up on his old club. Watford haven’t kept a clean sheet since their 1-0 win against Hull back in October, and Kaboul would love to end that streak here today.
Best stat…
29. The last time Watford triumphed against Tottenham was 29 years ago back in the 1986/87 season, when the Hornets secured a 1-0 home win. Despite seeming like a long while, it’s only ten games without a win. Only.
Remember when…
A Kieran Trippier goal just after the hour helped Spurs claim a 1-0 win in their last meeting.
Player to watch…
Troy Deeney. The Watford striker racked up his 100th goal for the Hornets in the 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace and will be keen to build on it. That was his first goal since October and now he needs to spearhead the Watford attack by picking up some momentum by way of goalscoring.
Past three meetings…
Tottenham 1 (Trippier) Watford 0, Premier League, February 2016
Watford 1 (Ighalo) Tottenham 2 (Lamela, Son Heung-Min), Premier League, December 2015
Watford 0 Tottenham 1 (Van der Vaart), FA Cup, January 2012
Form guide…
Watford: LLWLLD
Tottenham: LWWLWW
Odds…
Watford to win: 19/4
Tottenham to win: 7/10
Draw: 11/4
Palace will certainly be heartened by the absence of both Ozil and Walcott for Arsenal - is this game ready-made for an Allardyce upset?
Arsenal need to win to jump back above Man City and Spurs into third. Palace need a result to take them further clear of the drop zone. Here we go...
2 mins: Sanchez bursts into the area and wins an early corner for Arsenal. Palace clear. Bright start from Sanchez.
5 mins: Perez chases a long ball through the middle for Arsenal but Hennessey is quickly off his line and hoofs it clear. Arsenal making most of the early running at the Emirates, as you would expect.
6 mins: Close, twice, for Arsenal. Monreal slides the ball across the six yard box and Giroud is there but somehow fails to make contact form a couple of yards out. Then Elneny has a crack from the edge of the area but it's blocked by a defender.
9 mins: It really was a glaring miss from Giroud, who only had to get a foot on Monreal's cross and he surely would have opened the scoring.
11 mins: Townsend concedes a corner as Arsenal press. It's a poor one from Xhaka though, straight into the arms of Hennessey.
12 mins: It's all Arsenal. Sanchez lets fly with a cracking shot from 25 yards but it flies wide of Hennessey's left-hand post.
14 mins: Palace keeping their shape pretty well under early pressure, but they are sitting very deep and you wonder how long they'll survive. Allardyce looking pretty impassive on the sidelines, certainly doesn't seem unduly worried by the manner of Arsenal's start.
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