Watford vs Tottenham LIVE: Commentary, team news, live stream and stats as Hornets look to continue revival under Nigel Pearson

The Premier League returns for another full round of fixtures this weekend starting with a game that has repercussions at both ends of the table.

Following their 3-0 away win at relegation rivals Bournemouth last time out, Watford climbed out of the relegation zone for the first time this season, having picked up four wins in their last five league games.

Spurs, currently sitting eighth in the league, have hit a poor patch of form and are without a win in their last three games, including a 1-0 home loss to runaway leaders Liverpool in their last outing.

Watford will want to keep the resurgence under Pearson alive whereas Mourinho’s men will want to close the gap on the top four which currently sits at a nine points.

talkSPORT’s GameDay will bring you all the action from this huge game and here’s how you can tune in to it all.

Watford vs Tottenham: How to listen

The Premier League clash will get under way at 12:30pm on Saturday, January 18.

Full commentary from Vicarage Road will be live on talkSPORT, with our coverage starting at 12:15pm.

talkSPORT will bring you all the build-up before switching to a live and exclusive commentary.

To tune in, just click here for the live stream or click the radio player below.

You can also listen through the talkSPORT App, on DAB Digital Radio or on MW 1053 or 1089.

For more information about how to listen LIVE on talkSPORT click here.

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Watford vs Tottenham: Head-to-head

Watford have an appalling record against Tottenham and have got the better of the north London side just once in the Premier League era.

The last four league meetings has seen Spurs pick up the three points on three occasions as well as Watford’s first domestic win over Mourinho’s side since 1987.

Despite Tottenham often getting the better of Watford it is usually a close game, with two of the last three victories for either side only having one goal in it.

When these two sides met earlier on in the season they both had a different manager in the dugout, with Mauricio Pochettino at the helm of Spurs and Quique Sanchez Flores in charge of the visiting Watford as the sides played out a 1-1 draw.

The Hornets took an early lead through Abdoulaye Doucoure but it was cancelled out late on through a late Dele Alli equaliser, which left the visitors routed to the bottom of the table.

Watford vs Tottenham: The facts

• Watford have won just one of their 13 Premier League matches against Tottenham (D4 L8), a 2-1 win at Vicarage Road last season.
• Spurs have won two of their last nine away league visits to Watford (D4 L3), picking up just a single point from their last two games at Vicarage Road (D1 L1).
• Watford are looking to win four consecutive home top-flight games within the same season for the first time since December 1986.
• Watford have won 13 points under manager Nigel Pearson (W4 D1 L1) – only runaway leaders Liverpool (15) and Manchester City (15) have won more points since his first game in charge. Indeed, the Hornets have won as many points in their last five Premier League games as they had in their previous 23 in the competition (13).
• Tottenham are one of just two sides yet to keep an away clean sheet in the Premier League this season, along with Aston Villa. Spurs have conceded in each of their last 18 away league games, their longest such run in the top-flight since April 1977 (a run of 20).
• Tottenham have lost their last two Premier League games – they haven’t lost three consecutive league games since November 2012.
• Before Nigel Pearson’s first game in charge, Watford had a shot conversion rate of just 4.8 per cent, the lowest in the Premier League this season. Under Pearson, the Hornets have a conversion rate of 15.5%, the second highest in that time after Manchester City (18.4 per cent).

• Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho was the last manager to win away from home against Watford’s Nigel Pearson in the Premier League, doing so in April 2015 with Chelsea at Leicester. Since then, Pearson has won six consecutive home top-flight games and could become the first English manager to win seven in a row at home since Harry Redknapp in 2009 with Spurs.
• Dele Alli has scored five Premier League goals against Watford in eight appearances for Spurs – against no side has he scored more in the competition (also five vs Chelsea and Southampton).
• Watford’s Troy Deeney has scored four goals in his last five Premier League games – as many as he’d netted in his previous 20 appearances in the competition.

Watford vs Tottenham: Team news 

The Hornets’ injury list includes Will Hughes, Danny Welbeck, Tom Cleverley, Kiko Femenía, Daryl Janmaat and Sebastian Prödl and none of them are expected to be back in time for the clash against Spurs.

However, the home side have been handed a slice of good fortune after Christian Kabasele served the final game of his two-match suspension following his red card in the victory against Wolves.

Spurs will be without a number of players with Harry Kane, Moussa Sissoko, Hugo Lloris, Ben Davies and Tanguy Ndombele all side lined.

However, new arrival Gedson Fernandes could feature and the 21-year-old is eager to impress his new boss and fellow countryman Mourinho.

He said: “All young players want to work with Jose Mourinho because he’s one of the best – all of us as players want to stay near the best, so it’s fantastic to work with him.

“The Premier League is a different competition – every player in the world wants to play in the Premier League.

“For me, it’s one more motivation because I always dreamed of playing in this league and now let’s make my dream come true.

“I think we’re going to do fantastic things because this is a fantastic club.”

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