Solly March makes a break down the left, he does all the hard work, beats his defender and should put the cross in but he stops.

Sums up the pedestrian play of the home side.

Second-half under way.

Watford player are out early warming up and doing some cone drills.

You don't usually see that.

Brighton are fuming.

Tomer Hemed and Christian Kabasele are in a foot race and the Israel striker comes off worse, ending up on the deck on the edge of the box.

Looked a foul, the home fans ant a red card, but the referee waves it away.

With that, the first half comes to a close.

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This half is petering out with very little action of note. One minute of injury time.

Mat Ryan makes his first save of the match in the Brighton goal as he gets down to collect Richarlison's weak shot.

Anthony Knockaert has looked lively on the right wing, he cuts inside and shoots from about 20 yards but it's straight at Gomes.

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Markus Suttner with a long diagonal ball into the box but again Jose Holebas gets his team out of trouble and concedes a corner.

The ball comes to Connor Goldson at the back post who is completely unmarked but he heads straight at Heurelho Gomes who puts the ball round the post for another corner.

Referee Paul Tierney has a word to Bruno after he chops down Richarlison as the pair go for a loose ball.

Solly March swings in a cross for Tomer Hemed and José Holebas get a crucial had to the ball to put it out for a corner.

But the set-piece is wasted and Watford counter.

Another corner to Watford who have now settled in the game and are starting to cause the home side some trouble.

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Richarlison forces a corner.

Tom Cleverley takes it and plays it all the way out to Roberto Pereyra on the edge of the box who shoots wide.

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Tomer Hemed gets a run on his marker and stretches for a cross but it's just too far away.

Watford are asleep at the back and Christian Kabasele is not impressed with how his centre-back partner Sebastian Prödl has started the game.

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Pascal Gross tees up Davy Propper just inside the box, but the Dutchman balloons his shot over.

Heurelho Gomes then makes an absolute mess of Markus Suttner's cross and also puts his team in trouble.

Two great chances for the home side.

First Tomer Hemed burst into the box but was forced wide and fired a shot across the face of goal before Anthony Knockaert then fired a shot in from the right.

Watford defence being tested early on.

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Watford midfielder Ben Watson is making his first Premier League start since May 2016.

While Brighton centre-back Connor Goldson is playing his first game sine January after a remarkable recovery from heart surgery.

On the pitch, we have had five minutes of play and nothing of note so far.

Troy Deeney's red last week, was the club's fourth in the league this season - a league high.

Marco Silva’s side have had a player sent off in each of their last three Premier League games – no side has ever received a red card in four consecutive games in the competition.

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Brighton haven’t won in their last seven games, for Watford their run has now stretched to five matches so both clubs will see this as a great opportunity to turn that around.

Watford need to keep 11 men on the field for a start having seen Marvin Zeegelaar, Tom Cleverley and Troy Deeney sent off in their last three games while Brighton have only managed one goal in their last six games and that was a penalty against Liverpool.