Watford vs Luton Predictions

• Luton have taken just three points from their last 11 Championship games
• The Hatters have lost 12 of their last 13 league matches on the road
• Watford have lost their last five home games

Hornets having home issues

There is nothing Watford fans would love more than giving their rivals Luton a helping hand towards League One, but they are not flying themselves and need to pick up from a 4-0 loss to Championship leaders Leeds in their last Vicarage Road match.

That was a fifth successive loss for Tom Cleverley’s side on their own patch, which is a strange sequence of results when you consider they dropped just four points from the preceding 12.

And it could take more than a 1-0 win at Middlesbrough, which was only their second win in 11 games, to drag them to a derby success.

Luton’s season threatened with disaster

Luton’s position is grave and few would have anticipated them staring at successive relegations after they won plenty of friends with their positive attitude in last season’s Premier League.

However, this campaign is turning into a disaster and they will be desperate to avoid a defeat at their rivals from Hertfordshire.

The circumstances mean it is difficult to be fully confident about either team, even though Watford have lost just one of their last nine league clashes at Vicarage Road, and with shaky defences on show, both teams could concede with a 1-1 draw a selection for those looking for a correct-score pointer.