Match Centre: Watford vs Birmingham City
Player of the match Tom Ince 9.5
GolVolt rating 3.4GolVolt rating
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The match in 30 seconds
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6 → 4
Watford climb 2 places in the table. Birmingham City: 15 → 16.
Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Hat-trick for Ince.
- Dramaweight 50% Settled by 38′.The result was clear early — little to hold on for. Drama: 1.3 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Hat-trick for Ince, Ince scored the winner, Ince: rated 9.5.Someone played a match to remember. Heroes: 9.4 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% It mattered for the table but settled nothing. Stakes: 3.7 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% An average number of chances. Quality of play: 3.5 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 3.4more watchable than 34% of Championship matches
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
Similar matches
A similar story: twists, the finish, chances. Same league, last 12 months.
How the match went
3 goals3 cards
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 9' Goal: Tom Inceassist: Chakvetadze1:0
- 38' Goal: Tom InceWatford2:0
- 43' Mattie Pollockyellow card
- Half-time · 2:0
- 46' 2 substitutionsDykes for WillumssonLeonard for Sampsted
- 46' SubstitutionIrankunda for Chakvetadze
- 60' Goal: Tom Inceassist: Irankunda3:0
- 62' SubstitutionCashin for Cochrane
- 63' Lyndon Dykesyellow card
- 64' SubstitutionSemedo for Kjerrumgaard
- 68' SubstitutionDucksch for Furuhashi
- 69' SubstitutionMendy for Louza
- 70' SubstitutionSissoko for Maamma
- 77' SubstitutionBaah for Ince
- 77' SubstitutionKoumas for Anderson
- 78' Seung-ho Paikyellow card
- Full-time · 3:0
Match stats
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Watford
Birmingham City
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Watford
- 12 Nathan Baxter GK —
- 4 Kévin Keben DEF —
- 22 James Morris DEF —
- 29 Jérémy Pétris DEF —
- 17 Moussa Sissoko MID on
- 23 Nampalys Mendy MID on
- 18 Vivaldo Semedo ATT on
- 34 Kwadwo Baah ATT on
- 66 Nestory Irankunda ATT on
Birmingham City
- 21 Ryan Allsop GK —
- 41 Eiran Cashin DEF on
- 12 Marc Leonard MID on
- 27 Kanya Fujimoto MID —
- 40 Menzi Mazwi MID —
- 42 Daniel Isichei MID —
- 17 Lyndon Dykes ATT on
- 30 Lewis Koumas ATT on
- 33 Marvin Ducksch ATT on
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Vicarage Road, Watford
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Watford Tom Ince
- 2. place · Watford Giorgi Chakvetadze
- 3. place · Watford Nestory Irankunda
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