12th December 2015- Premier League, Sunderland 0 Watford 1 https://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches https://www.premierleague.com/en/match/803320/sunderland-vs-watford/overview BBC: Odion Ighalo’s early goal gave Watford their third successive win and left Sunderland stuck in the bottom three. Ighalo and Black Cats defender Sebastian Coates met Allan Nyom’s low cross at the near post and diverted the ball past Costel Pantilimon. Fran’s Watford Blog: Watford had the perfect start to the game, taking the lead after 4 minutes. In real time, I thought that Ighalo had missed Nyom’s cross and the keeper had turned it in, but I was doing Odion a grave disservice as the ball had been poked goalwards and what I saw was it going through the goalie’s legs. Whoever had provided the final touch, it was Ighalo’s battling presence that led to the goal. Observer, 13 Dec 2015 Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
6th April 2012- Championship, Watford 0 Blackpool 2 Leave a Reply http://watford.fcdb.info?id=5010 Two goals from Stephen Dobbie earned Blackpool victory over Watford and further cemented their position in the play-off places. The striker – on-loan from Swansea – scored his first by beating keeper Tomasz Kuszczak after a mazy run. The defeat brought an end to Watford’s seven-match unbeaten run which had raised hopes of gatecrashing the play-offs at Vicarage Road. Sean Dyche, the Watford manager, could not hide his feelings after his side let their unbeaten run slip. “I’m disappointed in our performance today. We’ve gone along very well lately, a couple of hiccups since Christmas but got over that swiftly and had a great run, so I’m disappointed. Palpable disappointment.  Obviously.  And that’s the fault of nobody bar those of us who’d allowed ourselves to get a bit carried away with things.  There are mitigating circumstances, there’s context, there’s stuff that didn’t quite fall our way (see below).  But there’s no two ways of interpreting your visitors being able to take off two key attacking players in the closing twenty minutes or so, for a bit of a rest. https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2012-04-06 https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/06-april-2012/ Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
