Newport County hosts Watford in the English EFL Cup 1/16 finals. The match will be played on Tuesday, September 22nd at Rodney Parade (Newport)
Very modest club Newport is another representative of the Welsh diaspora in the vastness of football England. Truth be told, this team is very far from the well known Swansea and Cardiff City. After all, the hosts of this match are an ordinary middle peasant of the fourth most powerful division (the Second League). It has a very small budget and a squad of the youth level of any team in the Championship. And I can note that the Newport finished the last regular season disgustingly, having suffered six defeats in the last eight rounds. Several defeats turned out to be quite painful, for example in matches with Oldham (0:5), Carlisle (0:2) and Grimsby (2:4).
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As for Watford, it fought to the utterance in the last Premier League. The team wanted to save a place in the elite, losing it only in the last round in a virtually equal fight with eminent Arsenal (2:3). This is not a weak-willed Norwich City, which hung a white flag about surrender for many meetings before the end of the championship. Many fans remember the first defeat of the future champion Liverpool, which it suffered not from the grandees, but from the Hornets, who hammered the Reds with a 3:0 score!
Of course, the visitors are unlikely to field the optimal lineup in this match because they have to solve important tasks in the Championship, where the Hornets are considered the main candidates for promotion. After all, today's Newport does not impress at all, and it managed to score a goal in only one of the aforementioned six losses. Watford immediately cemented its defense at the start of the new season, having kept a clean sheet in matches with Middlesbrough (1:0) and Sheffield Wednesday (0:0). Thus, it is completely incomprehensible how the hosts will manifest themselves in the attack. I'm waiting for a confident victory of Watford.
Prediction for the match: Watford to win
