Watford manager Gianfranco Zola has insisted that his side are ready to start their playoff campaign with Thursday night's trip to Leicester City.

Zola also said that he would not look to change personnel or tactics from the league campaign, with his side potentially three games away from the Premier League.

"We are ready to start the game from the beginning," he told the club's official website.

"We will see what they will do. It is the third time we have played against them, and they will certainly try to do something different. Although we have played them twice, it's going to be new.

"We don't have to change the things that have been so good for us. We're going to go there and play the game like we did all the others. We'll try to be positive and we'll try to score."

Watford were edged out of the automatic promotion spots by Hull City.