MATCH FACTS

■■Burnley have won just one of their last 22 Premier League games (D10 L11), and have scored just two goals in their last seven matches. ■■Watford kept their first Premier League clean sheet of the season in what was their 21st game – only Blackburn in 2011-12 (28 games) and Norwich in 2011-12 (22 games) have taken longer to record their first shutout of a Premier League campaign.

■■Watford manager Roy Hodgson has failed to win his first Premier League game in charge with each of his last five clubs (D3 L2), since winning with Blackburn against Derby in August 1997 (1-0).

■■Burnley remain unbeaten in their last five Premier League games at Turf Moor (W1 D4), although three of those games have ended goalless (also vs Norwich and West Ham).

■■No Premier League side is on a current longer winless run than Burnley and Watford, with both sides failing to win each of their last nine games in the competition.

Burnley’s 13 points after 19 games is their second-lowest total at the halfway stage of a Premier League season, only collecting fewer in 2018-19 (12) – however, the Clarets did avoid relegation that campaign and finished 15th.

■■Watford’s Joao Pedro is 54 years and 48 days younger than his manager Roy Hodgson, the biggest gap in age of any player to start a match under a manager in Premier League history.