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We can't bring you video highlights of the Troy Deeney goal - you can watch it on Match of the Day later - but here's a graphical description. Can you work out where Deeney is? If you can't then we seriously need to talk.

Heurelho Gomes is forced to claw away Xherdan Shaqiri's corner from the left that was swinging in. It would have been embarrassing for the Stoke stopper if that crept in.

Watford forward double act Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo go oh so close to giving the Hornets the lead.

First, top scorer Ighalo heads on to the bar then his team-mate follows up with a sidefoot effort against the same bit of wood (metal).

Unlucky rather than "they should have scored". You'll see what I mean when you watch Match of the Day later.

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The best chance of the match so far falls to Stoke's Marko Arnautovic - and the midfielder heads it over, nay, shoulders it over from eight yards out.

It was a good initial ball from Xherdan Shaqiri.

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...Charlie Adam takes it - of course - and it deflects out for a corner, which for the umpteenth time results in a by-product of nowt.

Stoke have a free-kick about 45 metres from goal - dead centre. I counted.

Stoke win yet another corner, but Bojan cannot get his delivery beyond the first man. Poor.

There is a goal in this match. I sense it - Jedi-like.

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It's Charlie Adam again who tries his luck from distance. This time he strikes a Watford headed clearance full on the volley which again misses Heurelho Gomes's left-hand upright.

It actually took a deflection, but Stoke fail to do make anything of the resulting corner.

Thoughts on Xherdan Shaqiri? He cost £12m and just now put too much purchase on a free-kick from the right. It was pretty poor to be honest.

Tweet your thoughts to #bbcfootball , externaland keep it clean eh?

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Stoke win a corner after Craig Cathcart has to head out with Joselu set to pounce - the corner comes to zilch.

Stoke defender Geoff Cameron appears to have suffered a thigh injury and is replaced by Marc Wilson, who moves into the right side of centre-half.

I wonder if that early change will cause a problem in the Potters' system?

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Stoke are now applying their first bit of pressure of the match. Midfielder Charlie Adam gets a low drive away which misses Heurelho Gomes's left-hand post by a foot.

Stoke players are wearing black armbands in memory of their former player Howard Kendall, who died last week at the age of 69.

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Watford striker Troy Deeney's in. He eludes the weak challenge of Geoff Cameron and is just about to sidefoot home, but is denied by the outstretched foot of Glen Johnson. Good defending from the ex-Liverpool man. 

We have lift off. Stoke get the match under way. Kicking from left to right if you're sitting in the area where they are kicking left to right.

Steve Wilson
BBC Match of the Day commentator

"Stoke may have had a slightly sticky start to the season but they have found their rhythm now, as we always suspected they would.

"They have won their last four games in all competitions, keeping clean sheets in three of them. If they beat Watford this would be their best Premier League sequence in four years.

"Watford are not extravagant goalscorers - only six in nine games: it's the fewest in the division and one man, Odion Ighalo, has scored five of them.

"With Stoke looking so secure at the back, a repeat of the goalless draw on their last visit to the Britannia Stadium eight years ago may be the best Watford can hope for."