Just three weeks after Watford dumped them out of the FA Cup, Arsenal take on the same opponents on Saturday aiming for back-to-back Premier League wins for only the second time since the turn of the year. There was enormous pressure on Arsenal and manager Arsene Wenger when they took to the field for their last match at Everton, but they responded in the ideal fashion with a dominant display full of the intricate attacking football with which they are so well associated. Central to that was the continued inclusion of…
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Watford vs Tottenham – Premier League preview and team news
Watford will be looking to pick up a fifth win in their last six Premier League games as the welcome another in-form team to Vicarage Road in the shape of Champions League chasing Tottenham. The hosts come into this after claiming a hard earned 2-2 draw at Chelsea, and while it was a match where their defensive resolve was severely tested they more than matched the champions throughout and showed why they have surprised so many this season to lie in the lofty heights of seventh place. Manager Quique Flores continues…
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Arsenal will be aiming for their third consecutive Premier League win as they make the short journey to face a Watford side whose defence has been among the most obdurate so far this season. Luck was certainly on the Hornets’ side before the international break as they escaped with a draw from fellow newly promoted club Bournemouth, who gifted them the equaliser and then contrived to miss a late penalty to win it. As he has been so often in the last year, Odion Ighalo was there to pounce when…
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