Nottingham Forest are expected to welcome back David Vaughan to their starting XI after the midfielder completed his three-match ban.
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Manager Quique Sanchez Flores is set to ring the changes for his side’s tie at Nottingham Forest.
Britt Assombalonga (knee), Andy Reid (groin), Matty Fryatt (Achilles), Henri Lansbury (ankle) and Daniel Pinillos (knee) will all remain on the sidelines, with only Assombalonga now on the road to recovery.
Forest are only 11th in the Sky Bet Championship and it is now nearly two decades since they last featured in the top flight after they were relegated in 1999.
A 1-0 win over Newcastle put the Hornets into round four.
But when Flores beefed up his attacking possibilities by sending on leading scorer Ighalo to play alongside Amrabat in a 4-4-2, the visitors finally gained the upper hand.
“There are a lot of teams in the Premier League with a lot of history so if they decide to come here it is awesome for us”.
The home side attacked with greater frequency in the second half and looked more threatening after Ward gave way to Ben Osborn, who gave them width on the left with Oliver Burke seeking to stretch Watford by taking up a similarly wide position on the right. Sometimes they play with two strikers, and they have very energetic players in the middle.
“The players are really clever and they have a lot of information”.
Ighalo is among a list of potential names that could arrive at Chelsea, having taken the Premier League by storm, with the Nigerian worldwide carrying on from a wonderful 2015 in which he scored 30 goals, with a number of strong performances that have seen the big teams sit up and take notice of his attributes.
Jokingly, he claimed: “Players who sign for Watford already know all about us”.
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Costel Pantilimon was another Watford player to be handed his debut in the East Midlands, and his first piece of business in a Hornets shirt finally arrived late on when keeping out Eric Lichaj’s speculative shot.
