29th December 2024- Championship, Watford 1 Cardiff City 2

WFC.Net goal commentary: 1

BBC: Cardiff City won their first Championship game in 10 attempts as they beat Watford 2-1 at Vicarage Road.

Sky: Robinson opened the scoring in the first minute and grabbed another before half-time, shortly after Giorgi Chakvetadze had equalised, to dent the hosts’ play-off hopes.

Watford Observer: RECAP: Watford 1 Cardiff City 2

Five talking points: Unbeaten home run ends and dealing with delaying tactics

Watford 1 Cardiff 2 minute-by-minute match report

‘We have to admit that, to a man, we weren’t good enough’ – Cleverley

Cleverley ready to help Jebbison both technically and mentally

Nine months of impregnability ended in one lousy 90 minutes

They tried it at Luton. They tried it yesterday. Probably won’t be tried again!

Early goal was bad, but conceding so soon after equalising was criminal

Fran’s Watford Blog: The post-match analysis was lively with Adam having an extended (and justifiable) rant. It had been a very frustrating game. Watford had completely dominated possession, but had seemed very reluctant to go for goal in contrast with the opposition whose goals came from positive runs. Cardiff were unpleasant opposition, the very early goal meaning that the time wasting was prolonged and the referee decided not to deal with it. There was also a lot of shirt pulling that went unpunished while every tackle by the Hornets seemed to provoke agonised rolling around. On more than one occasion, the Cardiff physios were called on for a player who was back on their feet with no apparent harm done before they reached them.

From the Rookery End: With Watford’s unbeaten home record finally gone, Colin, Jordi and Mike got together to discuss the two Feative home games against Portsmouth and Cardiff. Do fans take themselves too seriously? Did Baah’s “take the L” dance contribute to Watford taking one of their own against Cardiff? Was the ref to blame – or was it just one of those days for Tom Cleverly’s Hornets?