3 WAT

0 BIR

WAT 3

0 BIR

Watford
-
Birmingham

Championship, Round 25
Thursday, January 1, 2026 3:00 PM
Vicarage Road

Result

3-0

Match Recap

T. Ince 9'

T. Ince 38'

T. Ince 60'

Match Events

Second Half 3 - 0

78'

Paik Seung-Ho

Yellow Card

77'

Lewis Koumas

Keshi Anderson

K. Baah

T. Ince

77'

Moussa Sissoko

Othmane Maamma

70'

N. Mendy

I. Louza

69'

68'

M. Ducksch

K. Furuhashi

Vivaldo

L. Kjerrumgaard

64'

63'

Lyndon Dykes

Yellow Card

62'

Eiran Joe Cashin

Alex Cochrane

T. Ince

Nestory Irankunda

60'

Nestory Irankunda

G. Chakvetadze

46'

Lyndon Dykes

Willum Thor Willumsson

46'

Marc Leonard

A. Sampsted

First Half 2 - 0

M. Pollock

Yellow Card

43'

T. Ince

Goal

38'

T. Ince

G. Chakvetadze

Match Statistics

Ball Possession

45%

55%

Total Shots

Shots on Goal

Corners

Expected Goals (xG)

1.54

0.40

Match Information

Information	Value
League	Championship
Season	Championship 2025/26
Round	Round 25
Date	January 1, 2026
Time	15:00
Venue	Vicarage Road
Result	3 - 0

Lineups

Watford

1. E. Selvik Egil Selvik

25. J. Abankwah James Abankwah

6. M. Pollock M. Pollock

3. M. Alleyne Max Alleyne

16. M. Bola Marc Bola

42. O. Maamma Othmane Maamma

5. H. Kyprianou Hector Kyprianou

10. I. Louza I. Louza

7. T. Ince T. Ince

8. G. Chakvetadze G. Chakvetadze

9. L. Kjerrumgaard L. Kjerrumgaard

9. K. Furuhashi K. Furuhashi

14. K. Anderson Keshi Anderson

18. W. T. Willumsson Willum Thor Willumsson

16. P. Roberts P. Roberts

8. P. Seung-Ho Paik Seung-Ho

24. T. Iwata T. Iwata

20. A. Cochrane Alex Cochrane

6. J. Robinson J. Robinson

5. P. Neumann Phil Neumann

23. A. Sampsted A. Sampsted

25. J. Beadle James Beadle

Birmingham

Substitutes

Watford

Birmingham

Unused Players

Watford

Birmingham

Form before the match

Watford

Birmingham

Previous Fixtures

Championship 2025/26

December 1, 2025

Birmingham

Watford

Championship 2023/24

March 16, 2024

Birmingham

Watford

September 16, 2023

Watford

Birmingham

Championship

	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Promotion
1	Coventry	27	16	7	4	59	30	29	55
2	Middlesbrough	27	14	7	6	40	28	12	49
Promotion Playoffs
3	Ipswich	26	13	8	5	45	24	21	47
4	Millwall	27	13	7	7	31	33	-2	46
5	Hull City	26	13	5	8	42	39	3	44
6	Preston	27	11	10	6	36	26	10	43

7	Stoke City	27	12	5	10	32	23	9	41
8	Watford	26	11	8	7	37	31	6	41
9	Bristol City	27	11	7	9	38	29	9	40
10	Wrexham	27	10	10	7	39	34	5	40
11	QPR	27	11	6	10	38	39	-1	39
12	Derby	27	10	8	9	36	35	1	38
13	Leicester	27	10	7	10	38	40	-2	37
14	Birmingham	27	9	8	10	36	37	-1	35
15	Southampton	27	8	9	10	39	40	-1	33
16	Swansea	27	9	6	12	28	34	-6	33
17	Sheffield Utd	26	10	2	14	36	39	-3	32
18	Charlton	26	8	8	10	26	32	-6	32
19	West Brom	27	9	4	14	31	38	-7	31
20	Blackburn	26	7	7	12	24	33	-9	28
21	Portsmouth	25	7	7	11	22	35	-13	28
Relegation
22	Norwich	27	7	6	14	30	40	-10	27
23	Oxford United	26	5	8	13	25	35	-10	23
24	Sheffield Wednesday	26	1	8	17	18	52	-34	-7

Updated January 1, 2026 4:54 PM