Monthly Archives: February 2014

18th February 2014- Championship, Yeovil Town 0 Watford 0

https://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches

BBC: Yeovil remain bottom of the Championship after a tame goalless draw with Watford at Huish Park.

Fran’s Watford Blog: While I haven’t particularly enjoyed the past two home games, our performance against the team bottom of the division was like watching paint dry. Ranegie showed some good touches on his debut, but he didn’t seem to want to get involved. The highlight of the evening was definitely the experience of being in the ground. There is something about standing on an open terrace right on top of the action that makes you feel less of a spectator and more a part of the game.

Dorset Echo, 19 Feb 2014

Independent, 19 Feb 2014

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/18-february-2014/

15th February 2014- Championship, Watford 1 Middlesbrough 0

http://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches

WFC.Net goal commentary: 1

BBC: Watford made it 10 points from 12 after beating Middlesbrough in a game in which both sides finished with 10 men.

BHappy: The penalty and the two red cards took place within the first twelve minutes of the half. They left whopping great craters all over whatever gameplans had been in place, and if we’d looked anything but impressive before going ahead what followed was an absolute masterclass in navigating the revised landscape.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/26094279

11th February 2014- Championship, Watford 1 Birmingham City 0

http://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches

BBC Sport: Troy Deeney’s 13th goal of the season helped Watford to a narrow victory over Birmingham at Vicarage Road.

BHappy: Sometimes, football is a beautiful, breathtaking spectacle. Artistic and elegant, bold and dramatic, capable of lifting the spirit and carrying it away from all of life’s concerns to a happier place. This was definitively not one of those times. If football at its best is a duel between musketeers, all cut, thrust and dexterity, this was the equivalent of two trolls knee-deep in treacle heaving clubs at each other. And grunting.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2014-02-11

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/11-february-2014/

8th February 2014- Championship, Leicester City 2 Watford 2

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BBC: Danny Drinkwater scored a spectacular injury-time equaliser as Championship leaders Leicester battled back from 2-0 down to draw with Watford. Fernando Forestieri’s header and Sean Murray’s low shot secured the visitors a two-goal lead with 41 minutes gone. And, despite Matty James’s volley two minutes before half-time, it looked as though City were on their way to a first league defeat since 7 December.

BHappy: Leicester were giving it large at the end of the game, not unreasonably in context although to a greater extent than a home draw against a mid-table side to terminate a winning run probably merited. They do have previous on this of course… the “we’re going to Wembley, you’re not” chants that followed their first leg play-off win in May weren’t quite on a par with Palace’s premature “Eagle Express” train to Cardiff in 2006 but they weren’t too clever nonetheless. Beyond dispute though is that we’ve had some belting games against City over the past few years (and not just the play-offs… the Danny Graham one? The Chalobah one? The Craig Forsyth one? The Heidar one?) and it seems likely that this run will now take a pause of a season at least. Difficult to dispute that they’ve merited it either… comfortably the best we’ve seen this season and a far stiffer test than the side we beat in the play-offs. We gave them a(nother) hell of a game today though. Progress.

Observer, 9 Feb 2014

2nd February 2014- Championship, Watford 2 Brighton & Hove Albion 0

http://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches

Watford earned only their second win in 16 Championship games with victory over play-off hopefuls Brighton.

Anya fired the Hornets into an early lead with an angled shot across Tomasz Kuszczak and Beppe Sannino’s side were assured of their first win of 2014 on the hour mark when Forestieri made the most of a poor backpass from Gordon Greer.

Watford’s effective pressing game was a feature of their performance and Giuseppe Sannino, the head coach, said: “I knew that Brighton before this game were the best team in terms of goals conceded away from home and if we score two goals it’s because the pressing was very good. But also the desire of my lads and the effort that we were able to put into the game – we worked our socks off today.”

Watford did what they could not do against Nottingham Forest in midweek and held on to a 2-0 lead at home to Brighton. Their manager, Giuseppe Sannino, said: “I’m happy for my team because we came from three games where we didn’t get what we deserved.”