27th February 2010- Championship, Watford 1 Newcastle United 2 Leave a Reply Newcastle extended their lead at the top of the Championship to six points with a workmanlike victory at Watford. Newcastle United completed a rich harvest from February when, in their sixth league match of the month, they took their tally to 13 points by overcoming a Watford side that was pretty in possession but toothless in front of goal. It was Newcastle’s first away win in six games since early December and extends their lead at the top of the division to six points, now from West Bromwich Albion. And so the Newcastle juggernaut rolls on. What was remarkable about this victory was its almost complete lack of anything to remark on. Two goals, and a six-point lead at the top of Championship, compiled with the minimum of fuss. The overriding emotion is one of frustration; dominance in the middle of the park is of limited value if you can’t defend a set piece, and don’t have the guile to unpick a defence. Enormously frustrating to see whatever neat passing we could fashion on what is suddenly a hugely unhelpful surface labour to create chances whilst free headers were being offered to Newcastle in our own box. Share this:TwitterFacebook
20th February 2010- Championship, Scunthorpe United 2 Watford 2 Leave a Reply Scunthorpe rescued a point through Gary Hooper’s last-gasp penalty after going behind to Watford in injury time. Share this:TwitterFacebook
9th February 2010- Championship, Watford 2 Bristol City 0 Leave a Reply First-half goals from Heidar Helguson and Martin Taylor gave Watford a deserved victory over Bristol City. Five thunks from the first League win over City since Boxing Day 1998, Gifton at the corner flag and so forth. Yes, really. Share this:TwitterFacebook
2nd February 2010- Championship, Watford 3 Sheffield United 0 Leave a Reply http://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches Daily Telegraph, 3 Feb 2010 Poor defending contributed to the Blades’ defeat as Tom Cleverley took advantage of sloppy play to open the scoring before half-time. Heidar Helguson capitalised on more slack defending from the visitors to score the second before Don Cowie completed the scoring from a free-kick. How very badly did we need to play against a side as accommodating as the Blades. For twenty minutes we looked quite tentative, and then… it wasn’t merely a matter of noting that our opponents weren’t as good as their position suggested. More that a United side comprised of a pick-and-mix of second tier journeymen (many of them ours…) scrawled this in large, difficult to miss paint-spray all over their penalty area every time a ball went anywhere near it. Nonetheless, it took an unchallenged flap from Mark Bunn and a couple of unexploited free headers before we realised that this was there for the taking, and took it increasingly confidently. Share this:TwitterFacebook