Highlights | Watford 2-0 Norwich
Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo both scored as Watford earned a deserved win over struggling Norwich.
Deeney stepped up to finish past Declan Rudd after Alexander Tettey had fouled Ighalo in the area. And Ighalo netted his ninth goal of the season in second-half stoppage time after combining well with Deeney.
In harness with Deeney, the club captain, Ighalo has scored nine times and the pair have contributed over 80 per cent of Watford’s goals whereas Norwich, who are in real danger now after only one win in the past 10 league games, are struggling for goals.
“I love my strikers and I love the team we have,” their manager said after seeing his side move up to ninth. “We have passion, we have ambition and we have soul. I have an amazing feeling with these players and they are loving the Premier League.
Having arrived in the Premier League as a team playing reasonably open football on a sensible budget with a fashionable young manager, Norwich have every right to feel a bit peeved that everyone’s fawning over Bournemouth. It’s like they’ve turned up at a fancy dress party as Olaf from Frozen, only to find that someone else had that idea first and had a mum with a fancy sewing machine; they’re now in the bathroom desperately attempting to improvise an abominable snowman costume instead.
I’ll leave you with this. Six years ago we were hours way from administration. Now after the first weekend in December we sit in the top half of the Premier League.
More games from 5th December at https://oldwatford.com/tag/dec5
Category: Malky Mackay
12th April 2011- Championship, Watford 2 Norwich City 2
For anyone worried that the season might fizzle out, a properly tasty game of football. Any mention of officials in the first thunk is inevitably followed by a tirade…but this is the exception, for Mr A Taylor’s contribution, while sometimes inconsistent and occasionally slightly bewildering, should be heartily applauded by all card-carrying members of the Campaign for Real Tackling.
Norwich’s automatic promotion push was dealt another blow as they were held to a draw at Watford.
12th March 2011- Championship, Watford 3 Sheffield United 0
Interpretation of the result will be distorted by the perspective introduced by two red cards in the first half (see below), but it shouldn’t be. It’s perfectly possible to make heavy weather of a numerical advantage, and on this occasion we did anything but, belying the number of kids on show (which was considerable, even if this was as experienced a line-up as we’ve been able to field of late).
15th February 2011-Championship, Watford 2 Preston North End 2
