Category Archives: Beppe Sannino

15th March 2014- Championship, Watford 3 Barnsley 0

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WFC.Net Goal Commentary: 1 2 3

BBC: Barnsley slumped to the foot of the Championship as Watford breezed to a fifth-straight home league win. The Hornets were in command within 16 minutes after Cristian Battocchio scored, then Troy Deeney netted his 17th goal of the season.

Bhappy: Extraordinary how things have flipped around. Under Gianfranco our away form was passable, regular points away from home from perhaps stronger performances than the results suggested… but at home we were a catastrophe, increasingly without an answer to the same sucker punch. Now… our home form is extraordinary, today’s result never in doubt. In Blackpool and Barnsley we’ve faced two poor sides at low points in their season but we’ve put them away in style. Our away form has been iffier, and the obstacle to a more credible play-off challenge. Up to now, the distance to the play-offs has not been insurmountable… it’s been the fact that we haven’t been putting together a string of results to threaten to bridge that gap that’s been the problem. Whilst we still await another away win, the strong performance at Doncaster suggests that that win will come sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, we may be getting it together just as the games start to run out.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/26492909

1st March 2014- Championship, Watford 4 Blackpool 0

Watford thumped Blackpool to extend the Seasiders’ winless run to 16 league matches.

On the quarter hour Kaiser Tözsér sent a monstrous, arcing corner onto Matthias Ranégie’s head, unattended at the far post; his bullet header gave us the lead. This didn’t stop Richard Short crediting Troy Deeney, but then he’d twice welcomed Lucas Neill twice as a “loan signing” during the warm up so he’s obviously not a detail kinda guy.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2014-03-01

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/01-march-2014/

https://oldwatford.com/2019/04/23/23rd-april-2019-premier-league-watford-1-southampton-1/

15th February 2014- Championship, Watford 1 Middlesbrough 0

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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

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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/

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

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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.”

14th January 2014- FA Cup Third Round Replay, Watford 2 Bristol City 0

Watford face a trip to Manchester City or Blackburn in the fourth round of the FA Cup after beating Bristol City in a replay.

More games from 14th January at https://oldwatford.com/tag/jan14