Good afternoon, all, and welcome to our LIVE coverage of Stoke City v Watford.

HALF-TIME. Well, well, well. Watford have the advantage at the halfway point, and they probably deserve it after Stoke's early pressure.

Good run from Shaqiri there, who's given far too much space on the right, but Arnautovic trips himself up and the chance is gone.

GOAL! It's Troy Deeney to break the deadlock! After the unlucky miss five minutes ago, he picks up on a clever backheel, moves into the box, buys himself some time and then fires past Butland.

Another bat away from Gomes from Shaqiri's corner, swinging in to the middle.

Bojan's offside, and the Stoke fans groan in disappointment.

CHANCE! Watford hit the crossbar twice in the space of a couple of seconds - first Ighalo, then Deeney, and in the middle Abdi gets his ankles in a knot.

Gomes gets his fingernails to that, but Charlie Adam is leaping across him, and the referee gives a free kick.

Johnson runs into the back of Ake, and that's another free kick - this time on the edge of the box, on the right.

Cathcart makes an absolute belter of a clearance, smashing it well away from Bojan.

Ake jumps in the air about half an hour before the ball arrives, and the referee gives a foul against Shaqiri.

On replay, that actually hit his shoulder. There's a reason you won't find that in many coaching manuals as the correct way to meet a cross in from the wing.

Not a good header there from Arnautovic - Shaqiri put in a very good cross to him, and he knows he should have done better with that.

Shaqiri just managed to set himself up to win a corner, and then promptly deflected it back for a goal kick. He's really not having a good day.