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20th April 2024- Championship, Watford 0 Hull City 0

https://www.skysports.com/football/watford-vs-hull-city/teams/485229

Sky: Ozan Tufan’s penalty blunder left Hull facing a mammoth task to make the play-offs after a 0-0 draw at Watford.

BBC: The Tigers were awarded a penalty with just nine minutes on the clock after Wesley Hoedt brought down Fábio Carvalho, although Bachmann dived low to his left keep out Tufan’s spot-kick. That rescue act lifted the hosts who saw Yaser Asprilla and Emmanuel Dennis spurn chances before Bachmann once again denied Tufan, this time from a clever backheel.

Watford Observer: RECAP: Watford 0 Hull City 0

Long search for a home win goes on after Hornets held

Cleverley admits he has to change the team’s mentality

BHappy: The most immediate consequence of the penalty save was that the level of niggle in the game was amplified. Watford’s support raged at the visitors’ propensity to hit the deck easily; the away end no doubt perceived instead an attempt by the home side to kick the shit out of their opponents. In truth there were elements of both, perhaps exaggerated by a refereeing performance that comprehensively failed to command respect even if it never entirely lost control of proceedings. An ongoing spat between Jaden Philogene and, astonishingly, Ryan Porteous was the most prominent; the Scot, along with the rest of the Three Amigos at the back, picked up a yellow as eight were shared between the two sides.

Fran’s Watford Blog: So, the Hornets are still waiting for their first home league win since November. After a poor first half, the second was much better and the Hornets had some decent chances, but didn’t test the keeper. Hull City were very annoying opponents, going down far too easily. I spent a large part of the game turning the air around me blue at their antics. Thankfully none of my neighbours reported me to the stewards. Dan Bachmann comes in for a lot of criticism that I have never really understood, but he had an outstanding game saving a penalty and making a couple of other decent saves to preserve his clean sheet. Another positive from the game was the return of King Ken, which was very welcome. I am not in the camp that abuses Lewis, but Ken offers so much more. Seeing him running at players quickens the pulse and he always looks as though he will create something.

20th April 2021- Championship, Norwich City 0 Watford 1

BBC Sport: Watford moved a step closer to an immediate return to the Premier League with victory at already promoted Norwich City.

Sky Sports: An attack down the right saw the ball reach Joao Pedro just inside the box and the striker did well to pick out an unmarked Gosling, who had no trouble side-footing home at the back post.

BHappy: We deserve promotion this season. We haven’t gotten away with anything, if and when it’s confirmed we’ll have earned it (hellooooo again Spurs). At the start of the season we were solid… less than the sum of our parts, perhaps, frustrating at times but often effective despite that, and effective enough to hang around at the top of the table. To be in position to capitalise if and when we found some form. When we did find that form we looked occasionally flamboyant, often cruelly, mercilessly irresistible – twenty clean sheets before today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56727798

20th April 2019- Premier League, Huddersfield Town 1 Watford 2

Programme images courtesy of Matt Hall

Referee:
Roger East
Attendance:
23,957

1-0

2-0

Watford back up to seventh in the Premier League after win at Huddersfield Town

Watford beat Huddersfield away from home to take seventh place in the Premier League

Javi Gracia said Watford had to suffer to get three points against Huddersfield Town

Watford players rated after their win away at Huddersfield Town

Javi Gracia plays down seventh place after Huddersfield Town win

Gerard Deulofeu thinks this season with Watford could be the best of his career

A selection of images from Watford’s win at Huddersfield Town

Watford’s Ben Foster has praised Gerard Deulofeu after Huddersfield Town win

Watford took a big step to becoming the ‘best of the rest’ in the Premier League as they moved seventh with a 2-1 win at Huddersfield on Saturday.

Gerard Deulofeu scored an impressive double as Watford kept their European ambitions alive with a comfortable victory over Huddersfield.

Gerard Deulofeu’s double earned Watford victory at Huddersfield, who slumped to a record-equalling Premier League defeat. Deulofeu produced a finish similar to his stunning effort at Wembley earlier this month in Watford’s FA Cup semi-final win over Wolves to give his side an early lead.

I will really miss going to Huddersfield. It is a lovely ground and the pre-match pub is excellent, with good beer, good food and plenty of friendly, efficient bar staff. I hope that they return to the Premier League very soon.

20th April 2013- Championship, Watford 4 Blackburn Rovers 0

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=5062

Watford kept their slim automatic promotion hopes alive with a comprehensive demolition of 10-man Blackburn at Vicarage Road.

Hull remain favourites for second place, but Watford’s much superior goal difference means the Tigers will need to win at least one of their remaining fixtures to prevent a late charge from the Vicarage Road club, who have now mathematically secured at least a play-off spot.

Troy Deeney scored twice for the Championship’s third-placed team and if their hopes of hauling in Hull’s four-point cushion with two matches remaining seem far-fetched, the form of the club’s strikeforce bodes well with playoffs on the agenda. Zola left the Championship player of the year, Matej Vydra, on the bench and the 20-goal striker was hardly missed as his replacement, Fernando Forestieri, set up the first three goals.

The scoreline tells one story. The narrative of the match itself, however, is not (merely) one of us putting inadequate opponents to the sword. In fact it followed the template of several of our big wins this season; against Huddersfield in the snow in January we laboured for a bit against a side hellbent on stopping us from playing – and once we had gotten that first goal we were gone, galloping off into the sunset with the points and never looking back.

https://oldwatford.com/2013/05/04/4th-may-2013-championship-watford-1-leeds-united-2/

20th April 2010- Championship, Queens Park Rangers 1 Watford 0

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4914

Watford remain in relegation trouble at the bottom of the Championship after losing out to Akos Buzsaky’s first-half penalty at Loftus Road against QPR.

“We threw everything we had at them in the second half,” was the manager Malky MacKay’s verdict afterwards, but on this evidence that doesn’t amount to a great deal. Watford are now two points above the relegation places and without an away win in 16 matches.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2010-04-20

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/20-april-2010/

20th April 1996- New Division One, Luton Town 0 Watford 0

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4191

The most important local derby for years and, perhaps inevitably, it ends in massive anticlimax. We may be able to take some consolation from the fact that Luton’s season has been as bad as ours but the knowledge that we’ll have to visit this hellhole of an away end (where there’s so little legroom you can’t even sit in the seat you’ve paid stlg 12.50 for) next season doesn’t exactly fill my heart with joy.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=1996-04-20

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/20-april-1996/