Watford will seek to improve the Championship’s second best home record when they welcome basement-boys Sheffield Wednesday on Tuesday (19:45 GMT).
The Hornets made it 18 points claimed from losing positions as they came from behind to beat Norwich at Vicarage Road on Saturday to go 13th, just three points below the top-six.
They have won 21 points from 10 home games, second only to leaders Coventry (23).
Rock-bottom Wednesday are effectively 29 points adrift of safety and have lost four straight and 12 of 18 overall, while their game at Blackburn on Saturday was abandoned due to a waterlogged pitch at Ewood Park just before the hour.
The Owls’ only win of the campaign did however come on the road at Portsmouth in September.
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Watford are unbeaten in their past nine league games against Sheffield Wednesday (W5 D4), since a 1-0 home loss in December 2013.
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Sheffield Wednesday have won just one of their past 12 away league games against Watford (D3 L8), beating them 1-0 in December 2013 thanks to a Connor Wickham strike.
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Watford have won exactly half of their 48 league games against Sheffield Wednesday (W24 D11 L13). Among sides they’ve faced at least 40 times in the Football League, only against Bristol Rovers do they have a higher win rate (54% – 45/84).
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Watford lost six of their 10 midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) Championship games from the start of last season until February (W2 D2), but are since unbeaten in six (W3 D3).
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Sheffield Wednesday have lost just one of their past eight midweek (Tues, Weds, Thurs) away league games (W3 D4), though it was two weeks ago against Millwall (0-1).
