Last time Belgium - this time Italy

I suppose for now that's as close as we are going to get to European competition and I'm sure our manager Sean Dyche will be the one who will notice how big the change has been at Vicarage Road since the summer 2012 takeover left him out of work.

It will be the second time he's taken a Burnley team back there. Last season we arrived on Good Friday having drawn the previous game at Blackburn. We were in 11th place in the league, exactly where we finished the season so I'm sure if could repeat that and retain the position we are currently in until the end of the season then that would be just perfect.

A lot of words have been spoken since the Leicester defeat last Saturday. With the current injury problems added to with the now long term absence of Sam Vokes it has been an opportunity for some Burnley fans to hit the panic button and others, those with their glasses half empty, worried of the consequences.

There's no panic says Tom Heaton

Anyway, we can forget the panic because Tom Heaton says so. He said today: "There is certainly no panic nor doom and gloom from our point of view. It was only one game against a team sitting at the top of the league.

"It was a strange one really. Vokesy went off early on and we changed shape, but I didn't think there was too much in the game to be honest. They scored two good goals and hit the crossbar from distance. Other than that, though, we were relatively comfortable as they were apart from a couple of half chances from us.

"Throughout a football season, you're always going to get ups and downs and sometimes it's not going to go your way. Thankfully, that hasn't been the case too many times this year and hopefully, it won't be too many more. There's certainly positivity here and everyone is looking forward to Saturday."

Heaton will be in goal for the Clarets but nothing else is so certain. We know we have to make one change from last Saturday's starting line up with the Vokes injury and it is looking increasingly likely that Junior Stanislas, who returned to the team at Charlton, will be ruled out with a hamstring problem.

I'm not certain that Dyche will play Edgar as he did for much of the game last Saturday and it could be that both Ross Wallace and Keith Treacy come in to a different looking team.

If so our team could be: Tom Heaton, Chris Baird, Michael Duff, Jason Shackell, Ben Mee, Ross Wallace, Scott Arfield, David Jones, Keith Treacy, Michael Kightly, Ashley Barnes. Subs from: Alex Cisak, Cameron Dummigan, Kevin Long, Danny Lafferty, David Edgar, Brian Stock, Steven Hewitt, Cameron Howieson, Jason Gilchrist.

Watford were close to playing Premier League football last season. They ended the season in third place with 77 points, two behind Hull who were promoted automatically with 79 points. In a dramatic play-off semi-final against Leicester they reached Wembley only to lose the final against Ian Holloway's Crystal Palace through an extra time penalty from Kevin Phillips.

It brought to an end the first season under Italian control after the Pozzo family, owners of Udinese, bought the club. They were one of the pre-season promotion favourites this time and were in the top six into October.

A dip in form saw them drop down as low as 16th which led to Gianfranco Zola leaving to be replaced by, hardly surprisingly, another Italian in Beppo Sannino.

They've had some mixed form of late but they've certainly been scoring the goals. In the last six games they've twice netted three goals and on another two occasions have scored four, including last Saturday's 4-1 win against Wednesday at Hillsborough.

They are a dangerous side going forward and striker Troy Deeney is just one goal away from becoming the fifth Championship player this season to reach 20 goals, although five of them have come from the penalty spot.

Lewis McGugan with eight (including two penalties) is next with Fernando Forestieri and Gabriele Angella having scored seven and six league goals respectively.

There are not too many players at Vicarage Road who were around when Sean Dyche was manager but one of them, Lloyd Doyley, will not feature tomorrow. He twisted his ankle in last week's win and is not expected to be fit until during next week.

However, fellow defender Marco Cassetti looks set to return after missing out last Saturday and both Jonathan Bond and Essaid Belkalem are also back in contention.

Watford, apparently, have only two strikers available. I see that right now as a luxury but the problems there are because Chu-Young Park is two to three weeks away after sustaining a toe injury and Forestieri is out for another week or so, also with a toe injury.

Meanwhile young striker Bernard Mensah had an operation in Rome this week and isn't expected to be fit until the start of next season.

Besides Cassetti, Bond and Belkalem there is further good news with both Almen Abdi and Fitz Hall having played 45 and 77 minutes respectively in a midweek friendly against Northampton.

The win last week was their first on the road in 15 attempts but this is a home game for them where they have been strong recently.

Their team last week was: Manuel Almunia, Lloyd Doyley, Joel Ekstrand, Gabriele Angella, Ikechi Anya (Marco Faraoni), Lewis McGugan (Almen Abdi), Daniel Tozser, Cristian Battocchio, Daniel Pudil (Albert Riera), Troy Deeney, Mathias Ranegie. Subs not used: Gary Woods, Tommy Hoban, Sean Murray, Alexander Merkel.

Last Time We Were There

Burnley started and ended last season's game at Watford well and the 3-3 scoreline at the end meant it was the first time a Burnley team under Sean Dyche had scored three goals in a game and the first time they'd conceded three goals in a game.

There is no doubt this was an enjoyable game of football. Just five days earlier we had conceded a ridiculously offside goal to David Dunn in stoppage time but this time we were the beneficiaries of a goal scored in time added on to ensure we came home with a fully deserved point.

This Watford team were going well and looking for a win to move into second place but Burnley were more than a match with a team that initially showed two changes from that which had drawn at Ewood with Danny Lafferty replacing the suspended Ben Mee and Danny Ings preferred to Martin Paterson.

Charlie Austin scored his last Burnley goals

Then, just before kick off I noticed that Kevin Long came in for Michael Duff who had picked up an injury in the warm up. He was at the far end but the immediate action was right in front of us as we took a first minute lead.

Alex Kačaniklić and Lafferty linked up for the full-back to cross. Ross Wallace saw his shot blocked but he ball rebounded back off Wallace right into the path of Charlie Austin and he made no mistake to kick off what was one of his best performances in a Burnley shirt.

The goal was timed at 51 seconds but by the sixth minute Watford were level when Troy Deeney left fly from outside the box leaving Lee Grant helpless as it flew into the corner.

We were playing some fantastic football and were soon back in front. Austin played a cheeky back heel to Kačaniklić, the former Watford loan man. He was brought down for a clear penalty which Austin converted.

We could not have known at the time but this goal proved to be Austin's last for Burnley. He played only three more games for us after this before missing the last four games of the season due to appendicitis.

Unfortunately we didn't keep the lead long again but referee David Coote played a big part as he got in the way of a pass from Marvin Bartley and directed it straight to a Watford player who immediately played in Fernando Forestieri and he made no mistake.

So 2-2 with half an hour gone. That was the half time score but then Forestieri gave Watford the lead with a superb finish and that looked to have won it for Watford.

That was until the second minute of five added on at the end of the game. Austin headed on a Long clearance and Vokes took advantage of some defensive hesitation. He got beyond the defender and hit a half volley into the bottom corner and we'd got our richly deserved point.

The teams were;

Watford: Jonathan Bond, Matthew Briggs, Fitz Hall, Joel Ekstrand, Marco Cassetti (Lloyd Doyley 49), Almen Abdi, Nathaniel Chalobah, Cristian Battocchio, Ikechi Anya (Matej Vydra 69), Troy Deeney (Alexandre Geijo 90), Fernando Forestieri. Subs not used: Jack Bonham, Mark Yeates, Jonathan Hogg, Daniel Pudil.

Burnley: Lee Grant, Kieran Trippier, Kevin Long, Jason Shackell, Danny Lafferty, Ross Wallace (Sam Vokes 79), Marvin Bartley (Brian Stock 62), Chris McCann, Alex Kačaniklić (Martin Paterson 80), Danny Ings, Charlie Austin. Subs not used: Brian Jensen, David Edgar, Joseph Mills, Junior Stanislas.

Previous Games against Watford

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