clips of Jon Marks BBC 3CR commentary

Goal 1

Relive the game as Watford draw with West Ham

Hornets held in Hammers draw

Hornets boss Mazzarri says Zarate was in tears after injury against Hammers

Bilic felt Hammers deserved victory but highlights shortcomings

Watford v West Ham ratings: Gomes on form in Hammers draw

Zarate reveals seriousness of knee ligament injury

Kaboul rues lack of second goal in West Ham draw

Substitute Andre Ayew scored a second-half equaliser to earn West Ham a Premier League point against Watford.

Watford missed the chance to do the double over West Ham for the first time as Andre Ayew’s second-half strike secured a 1-1 draw at Vicarage Road.

West Ham grabbed a deserved point through Andre Ayew after Troy Deeney’s penalty gave Watford an early lead

Neither Watford nor West Ham are bad enough to get drawn into a relegation battle this season, but they are certainly not good enough to make any sort of push for Europe, either. It is not even March, but it is hard to avoid the feeling that mid-table obscurity beckons for both these sides in the coming months.

After a two week break, and notwithstanding a defeat at Old Trafford that was disappointing but far from humiliating, perspective on games like this has changed.  The two wins against Arsenal and Burnley reversed the gentle downwards slide and we are now by general consensus a Mid Table Club… not that relegation is impossible, but we’d have to work pretty hard to achieve it.

As the half wound down, my gaze was drawn to the TV studio to our left where the pundits were having their hair and make-up done, the first time that I have seen beauty treatments in a football ground.

I’m happy to take a point from this game. West Ham were by far the better side but we continually played right into their hands with our ‘lump it up to Deeney and see what happens’ tactic.