On Monday 27th May at 3pm Watford FC will play Crystal Palace FC at Wembley Stadium in what is now known as the richest game of football worth an estimated jackpot of ÂŁ110m up for grabs to the winner.
To reach the final Crystal Palace drew 0-0 at home to Brighton before winning 2-0 in the reverse fixture with both goals coming from Manchester United bound Wilfried Zaha. Watford lost their first leg away to Leicester 1-0 before leading 2-1 heading into the 95th minute at the home fixture. Referee Michael Oliver awarded a very debatable penalty to Leicester when Marco Cassetti was adjudged to have fouled Anthony Knockaert. Knockaert missed the penalty himself before Watford hit a counter attack with Troy Deeney, who started the season in prison, applying the finishing touch to send them to Wembley.
Both teams have had the same fortunes this season going through very good, and sometimes bad, form. Before their 2-0 win over Brighton on Monday evening Palace had only won 1 of their last 8 games, a 3-2 victory over Peterborough on the final day of the season. Watford started off slow but rapidly started to gather pace before being denied an automatic place on the final day of the season, losing 2-1 at home to Leeds.
In the first game of this season Watford beat Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park with 2 very late goals coming from Almen Abdi, Watford's Player of the Season, and Matej Vydra. On Friday 8th February at Vicarage Road it was Crystal Palace's turn to pull the game back by scoring 2 goals in 4 minutes by Ramage and Kevin Phillips to tie the game 2-2 after Watford scored twice inside the first 15 minutes. During this game Ian Holloway was very critical of Watford's loan policy which will add a little more incentive to this game for the Hornets.
For this game Palace will be without 30 goal Glenn Murray but will still be a very threatening force going forward with the likes of Zaha, Bolasie and Jedinak. Watford will be without young defender Tommie Hoban, who featured in the early parts of the season, due to a leg injury.
My Score Prediction - 3-1 to my team.....Watford FC
Latest Odds - Watford 27/20 with SportingBet, Draw 15/7 with Betdaq and Crystal Palace 47/23 on Betfair.
My only concern is lack of established forward in the team, Muzza has been up front basically the whole season, I think Wilbraham has started three or something and with KPhillips being like 600 years old he doesn't have the legs for a full game whereas Watford have Vydra who is very dangerous. We're underdogs but that's how we like it and in a final's scenario anything can happen.
I think it's more the potential earnings. Increased TV revenue, Teams at the bottom of the premier league get 40 million which is more than winning the championship etc...
It is mostly a marketing slogan. I think it's the difference you'd get from being in the bottom 3 of the Premier League compared to another season in the Championship. Basically, you get a lot more money for being shit in the Premier League than being good in the Championship.
Yeah it's from TV money mainly, which is even more than this season. It's a crazy amount from next season, not to mention the parachute payments. It's more than a slogan as the revenue you'll get from being in the Premiership is worth what they say.
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