Watford are the only team in the three divisions of the English Football League to have won their opening five games.

With Huddersfield losing 3-2 at Walsall on Tuesday night in the Carabao Cup, it means the Hornets now stand alone as having the last remaining 100% record across all competitions among EFL sides.

The 2-0 win over Plymouth means Watford have won five consecutive games for the first time since the 2020/21 season, when they actually won six between March 6 and April 2 – and all those were league games.

That run formed part of a sequence of nine consecutive home wins which stretched from mid-February all the way through to the end of the season as promotion back to the Premier League was secured.

A 3-2 win over Aston Villa on the opening day of the following season at Vicarage Road was followed by a 1-0 League Cup win over Crystal Palace – they lost their next home game to Wolves but had won 11 straight games in WD18.

Incredibly, it then took from August 24, 2021, until April 15, 2023, for Watford to register their next 11 home wins.

The last time the Hornets started a season with five consecutive home wins was in 2018 under Marco Silva, when Premier League victories over Brighton, Burnley, Crystal Palace and Tottenham were added to win a League Cup success against Reading.

It is the 75th time in the club’s history that they have achieved the feat of winning five consecutive matches.

With Mileta Rajovic scoring twice against Plymouth, it means Watford have three players who have scored three goals or more in the opening five games of a season for the first time since 1960, when Cliff Holton (6), Freddie Bunce (4) and John Smith (3) achieved it.

The four home wins so far this season have been achieved with an aggregate scoreline of 12-1, the joint sixth best in the club’s history and the joint third best since WW2.

Back in the 1985/86 season, Watford’s first four home games saw four wins with a combined goal difference of 13-1, and they went on to win their first seven at Vicarage Road in all competitions by a combined tally of 22-6.

Statistics kindly supplied by the Watford Database at wfc.net