Three ways to back your team: Watford

We’re giving Watford a 42-point start

Three sides are more likely to be relegated this season – Huddersfield, Brighton and Burnley – so Watford are not safe by anyone’s standards. A bottom-half finish looks nailed on however, and our football guys have them at 1/14 to finish 11^th to 20^th. The handicap markets have also been released, so what would it take for Watford to win the league? A lot, apparently, and Coral are giving them a 42-point head-start. That wouldn’t have been anywhere near enough to help them last term, Watford finishing on 40, champions Chelsea posting a winning score of 93. With English football having five representatives in the Champions League this term, we are expecting a far more competitive year ahead. The Hornets +42 on the handicap is 15/1.

Take Silva in the match bet vs Wagner

Lastly, with not an awful lot for fans of the London club to get excited about, we take a look at the match bet offers. Placing Watford alongside a selection of similar teams, all you have to do here is correctly call who will finish higher in the table. It doesn’t matter where the two chosen sides end, first and second or last and second last, as long as Watford pick up more points than their opponents. They have been paired with the likes of West Ham, Newcastle and Crystal Palace, but are expected to fare better than newly promoted Huddersfield. The Terriers will set manager David Wagner a task of beating the drop in their first season, 4/9 says Silva’s Watford finish higher.

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