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Saturday (20 July) 13:00 (GMT 0)
To prepare for the new season, Watford will have four friendly matches. A few days ago, they played against Ajax in their first friendly match and had to defeat 1-2. This is also a predictable result of power or reputation. It is clear that the Ajax name is much more powerful than Watford. The technical kick and Ajax's total attack is the best for teams like Watford. Thus, in terms of performance, Watford had a series of 5 consecutive losing games, which were the last games of the previous season. In the second friendly match this summer, Watford will continue to go away as a guest on the field of German representative Bayer Leverkusen.
On the other side of the front line, Bayer Leverkusen finished the Bundesliga last season in fourth place with 58 points after 34 rounds, including 18 wins, 4 draws and 12 defeats. This is a good achievement for the strength of this team, and they are aiming for higher positions this season. Currently, despite selling Julian Brandt, their squad does not lack other stars like Leon Bailey or Kai Havertz. Therefore, they are expected a lot in the new season.
However, Bayer Leverkusen's preparations were not good when they lost both past friendlies against Fortuna Sittard and AS Eupen, scoring 3 goals and conceding 5 times. Of course it is important to know that friendlies are experiments that will not require the most perfect results. However, losing to inferior opponents made Bayer Leverkusen questioned about the possibility of winning against Watford in this match.
Despite being a medium-sized team in England, the coach of Javi Gracia has shown them to be a team with unpleasant play and very difficult to overcome. Therefore, they expect to play a fair match with a German representative at this meeting and it is likely that the match will end with a draw. In addition, the nature of a friendly match, the two teams will likely play very openly, from which the match will have quite a lot of goals scored.
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