Good luck and safe travels to those making the pilgrimage to the London cash cow that is Wembley Stadium, god bless you all
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Watford pair Roberto Pereyra and Isaac Success will have fitness tests on respective hip and knee injuries ahead of the semi-final with Wolves.
Tom Cleverley will definitely be sidelined by a calf problem.
Wolves head coach Nuno Espirito Santo has no fresh injury concerns for the trip to Wembley on Sunday.
Keeper John Ruddy - who has started all of his side's FA Cup ties so far this season - will keep his place in the Wolves goal ahead of Rui Patricio.
@Guymowbray: All the indications are for a tight tie, with little to separate the Premier League's two next-best teams outside the 'big six'.
One point - the difference between them, in Wolves' favour.
One goal - again pointing to Wolves, with a goal difference of +1 to Watford's zero.
One minute - made the difference at Molineux in October, with Watford's goals in a 2-0 win scored just 58 seconds apart.
One yellow card - Watford have totalled 62 league bookings to Wolves' 61, with even the number of fouls committed across the whole season incredibly close (358 Watford, 353 Wolves).
One goal to split them then? Or maybe one missed penalty in a shoot-out?!*
*Watford have lost their last three, and Wolves their last four. Vive la difference!
VIEW FROM THE DUGOUT
Watford head coach Javi Gracia: "I've never played a final as a coach. Semi-finals I played in Russia, but a final I've never played.
"It will be the best achievement in this competition for sure. If I win it I don't know what I'll do.
"Both teams are playing well with good results, in a good moment, and we have to show in this semi-final what we are able to do and if we deserve to go to the final."
Wolves head coach Nuno Espirito Santo: "Focus on the game, don't think about anything else and what it could mean or what could happen after.
"Make the game special. We have to play just like another game and make it special for that to team something. We know, everyone knows what it could mean.
"But we have to play it just like another game, focus on the actions and tasks and make it special for that to mean something."
LAWRO'S PREDICTION
Feck you Lawro !
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
Watford have won just one of the seven FA Cup meetings - 3-0 in the fifth round in February 1980.
The Hornets have only lost one of their past five matches against Wolves in all competitions, winning two and drawing two.
Watford's biggest FA Cup defeat was a 10-0 loss against Wolves in January 1912.
Watford
Watford have lost three of their past six matches in all competitions, compared to one defeat in their previous 11 (W6, D4).
The Hornets have lost three successive matches away from home.
Watford have lost their last four games at Wembley and have only won once in six visits to the ground.
Only Heurelho Gomes and Will Hughes have played in all four Watford FA Cup matches this season.
Troy Deeney has been directly involved in nine goals in his last 13 FA Cup appearances, scoring five and assisting four.
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Wolves have only lost two of their past 14 matches in all competitions, winning eight and drawing four.
They are on a six-match winning run at Wembley Stadium.
Raul Jimenez has scored in three rounds of the FA Cup this season, a record bettered only by the five of Newport County's Padraig Amond.
Jimenez has been directly involved in 18 goals in the Premier League this season, scoring 12 and assisting six.
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posted on 8/4/19
Don’t know where you were sat oldgold but the incident with the kid sounds like an incident a few rows in front of me. Maybe we were very close and didn’t know it.
Anyone get a good view of what happened with the two VAR red card reviews? Neither looked anywhere near red card incidents to me
posted on 8/4/19
Have to say the new Wembley is not as good for atmosphere as the old place. Having a middle tier around the stadium primarily for corporate seats does split up the people there to support the two teams and makes for much less of an atmosphere than you get at good club grounds
posted on 8/4/19
To be honest I never thought that we played at our best even when 2 up. Watford just had that little bit more than we did.
I feel proud of the club they got as far as they did. We are young enough and good enough to come again
Keep the faith, tis is just the beginning.
posted on 8/4/19
Sadly plenty just go for the day our Goldi and the football is secondary
posted on 8/4/19
comment by Spangles (U17289)
posted 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
Don’t know where you were sat oldgold but the incident with the kid sounds like an incident a few rows in front of me. Maybe we were very close and didn’t know it.
Anyone get a good view of what happened with the two VAR red card reviews? Neither looked anywhere near red card incidents to me
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Yeah possibly, block 502, row 16 we were in.
Saw one of the reviews on match of the day when I got back last night, one of the Watford lads, might have been Doucoure, sticking his head in to Moutinho's face. No idea on the other.
posted on 8/4/19
The thing that amazed and disapointed me was the amount of development going around the stadium. Only just over a year since I took my lad on the tour there but in that time a shed load of housing blocks have appeared sandwiched between the shopping development and the stadium, It used to be quite a pleasant open space but now its horrible. You cant actually see the stadium bar the arch, until you're virtually on top of it.
posted on 8/4/19
We were in block 525 so must have been a similar incident we saw but not the same one.
Agree with you about the stadium. They have clearly sold off a lot of land for development and the national stadium just looks like the big daddy in an office and retail park now. Must be far less parking around the stadium than there used to be
posted on 8/4/19
posted on 8/4/19
Sell it off, knock it down and build a new one in the midlands.
posted on 8/4/19
Agree with Vicious, had a great day out anyway, did not like those bags we were told to hold up and would have preferred the flags Watford had, got my ticket for Southampton so onwards and upwards-what a great season