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Welcome to The Independent's coverage of Watford vs Manchester City.

Match facts

• Watford and Manchester City have met 13 times in the league with both sides racking up five victories.
• Manchester City are unbeaten against the Hornets in the last eight encounters in all competitions (W6 D2).
• Odion Ighalo became the first Watford player to score in six successive top-flight league games when he netted in their last match versus Spurs.
• If he were to score in this game, Ighalo would equal the all-time club record of scoring in seven successive games, held by Frank McPherson in 1928/29.
• Ighalo ended 2015 as the top scoring player in the calendar year within the top four tiers of English football (30 goals).
• Pablo Zabaleta could make his 200th Premier League appearance in this match and would become the third Argentine to reach this landmark after Carlos Tevez and Fabricio Coloccini.
• Watford didn't manage a single shot on target when they played Man City at the Etihad Stadium earlier this season.
• Sergio Aguero has only failed to score against five of the 28 different Premier League teams that he has faced in the competition - Watford (one appearance) are one of these sides.
• Manchester City are winless in their last six Premier League away games (W0 D3 L3) - their longest run without an away win since April 2011 (also six games).
• Man City last went seven successive Premier League away games without a win in December 2009.

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