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16th August 2026- Championship, Watford 2 Southampton 1

Watford Observer: Dionisi on tough start: ‘It won’t be easy for the opposition either’

Watford Observer: MATCHDAY AS IT HAPPENED: Watford 2-1 Southampton

Match Report: Outstanding Watford produce memorable 2-1 win over Southampton

WATCH: Immediate reaction to Watford 2-1 Southampton

‘We were one team’ – Dionisi hails Watford mentality in Saints win

Dionisi: ‘Keben was probably better than everyone’

Keben and Bravo lead the way as Watford walk the walk

Nabizada: ‘I want to live this feeling every week’

BBC: Southampton were beaten in their first Championship match since the Spygate scandal, as Watford got off to a winning start under new boss Alessio Dionisi.

Sky: Summer signing Iker Bravo and teenage academy product Amin Nabizada gave new Watford manager Alessio Dionisi a fine win, while Southampton’s players were heckled, both on the pitch and from the stands, for their actions at the end of last season.

BHappy: The visitors look confident, capable, and are dominating the ball while we look a bit edgy. Dobbin escapes down the left and squares… we clear it unconvincingly, he’s flagged off anyway. Hector is booked for a clumsy foul… we can’t surely be this desperate, this stretched after only ten minutes? Then we score, and everything changes.

Fran’s Watford Blog: The pre-match tributes to Kevin Keegan and Kenny Jackett were both very emotional. Kenny is someone that I watched emerge from the youth team to become a legend. I was also lucky enough to meet him a few times and found him to be a lovely man who just wanted to chat to you about football. He was taken far too soon. The flag was a thing of beauty and the least that the fans could have done to honour Kenny. Special thanks to the 1881 for arranging it and to Roy and Phil for driving to Poland to collect it in time for the match.

From the Rookery End: A 2-1 win over Southampton gave Vicarage Road the sort of afternoon that has been in short supply recently, with two young players finding the net, a captain leading from the front and plenty of early signs of what Alessio Dionisi wants from his team.

16th August 2025- Championship, Watford 2 Queens Park Rangers 1

Watford Observer: Valon Behrami is not interfering with tactical decisions, insists Paulo Pezzolano

Rocco Vata returns as Paulo Pezzolano aims for greater goal threat

Paulo Pezzolano: ‘We are trying to change the short-term culture at Watford’

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Watford Observer: RECAP: Watford 2-1 Queens Park Rangers

Five talking points as Kjerrumgaard doubles fires Watford to first win of season

Match report: Watford 2-1 Queens Park Rangers

Paulo Pezzolano on QPR win, his change of system and Kwadwo Baah exclusion

Paulo Pezzolano: ‘Luca Kjerrumgaard is going to be a top striker’

Paulo Pezzolano caught everybody off guard with QPR selection – and it worked a treat

BBC: Luca Kjerrumgaard scored twice as Watford beat QPR to give Paulo Pezzolano his first win as Hornets head coach.

Sky: But the victory was marred when midfielder Imran Louza, on his 100th appearance for Watford, was given a straight red card three minutes into added time for a high tackle on Rangers sub Jonathan Varane.

BHappy: Luca Kjerrumgaard’s hold up play and work off the ball was excellent, his two finishes supremely unfussy. “Everyone’s looking for a centre-forward”. We’ve found one.

Fran’s Watford Blog: It was a very enjoyable start to the Championship season at home. The first half was terrific with the Hornets taking a two-goal lead and completely dominating until Morgan’s goal, which was against the run of play. The second half was more even, and the nerves were shredded by the end, despite the fact that Selvik wasn’t really tested. It was disappointing to see Louza sent off on his 100th appearance, but his impetuous nature is part of what makes him such a good player. He will be missed in the upcoming games. It was great to see Kjerrumgaard on the score sheet, we have seen some good things from him in previous games and now that he has broken his duck, I expect to see many more goals from him. Irankunda had another good game, Kayembe impressed and Sissoko continues to look as though he has had an injection of youth serum during the Summer.

From The Rookery End: Dave, Mike and Jason gathered at the Mad Squirrel after Watford’s 2-1 win over QPR to discuss the Hornets’ first win of the season thanks to a first half brace from big Luca Kjerrumgaard. There was a surprising change of system from Paulo Pezzolano and plenty of encouraging individual performances for us to purr over, with the mood only slightly sullied by Imran Louza’s late and straight red card.

16th August 2022- Championship, Birmingham City 1 Watford 1

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Attendance 16,811

BBC Sport: Watford preserved their unbeaten start in the Championship with a hard-fought draw against Birmingham at St Andrew’s.

Sky Sports: The Hornets, who were missing the injured Ismaila Sarr, failed to make the most of their chances and fell behind to George Hall’s first senior goal. Ken Sema finally found a way through with a second-half equaliser but the visitors missed the chance to go top of the Championship table.

BHappy: The game ends.  Troy treads a fine line in walking halfway to the away end and applauding, acknowledging the Watford acclaim without going full Roy Hodgson.   Rob Edwards meanwhile leads his team to the front of the stand, where Kenzema makes sure that his shirt goes to the couple brandishing a Sweden flag in the second row. Edwards’ take is about right.  Any away point is a good one, particularly when coming from behind but… coulda.  Maybe shoulda.  Definitely coulda.  It will come, pieces are still shifting in and out. It will come.

Fran’s Watford Blog: There are a number of new faces in the squad, so this is still a team in transition, but the hard work and the organisation are impressing.  The main frustration was that we did not test Ruddy enough, but that wasn’t for want of trying.  Despite an identical result, this was a much better performance than at the Hawthorns last week and the travelling Hornets left St Andrews with smiles on their faces

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16th August 2011-Championship, Watford 0 West Ham United 4

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James Tomkins opened the scoring for the Hammers with a powerful back-post header from Matt Taylor’s corner. Joey O’Brien prodded home after bustling his way into the penalty area, before Carlton Cole slotted home Herita Ilunga’s low cross. And Scott Parker added the fourth late on to leave Sean Dyche still searching for his first win as Watford boss.

Of all the sentiments provoked by last night’s game, the most striking was the chill echo of the futility of Premier League fixtures. During any number of games in each of our seasons in the top flight since football was invented in 1992, we’d look plucky and promising and positive and not really terribly like scoring and then concede.  And then look plucky and positive and get our heads up and keep playing and not really look like scoring and maybe concede again, maybe not.  This is what a game between a newly relegated Premier League club and anyone else was supposed to look like.

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16th August 2008- Championship, Watford 1 Charlton Athletic 0

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BBC SportTommy Smith’s fierce strike gave Watford victory over 10-man Charlton.

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BHappy imageNew passing game, new passing formation. Fine. But the real benefit thus far has been the protection afforded the defence. It speaks volumes that on a day when John Eustace was below par, Charlton rarely got more than a sniff – having Eustace and Williamson, fantastic today, as two sitting midfielders makes us a whole lot more secure. It does ask a lot of the four attacking players though (4-3-3 my arse). Speaking of whom….

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16th August 1997- New Division Two, Carlisle United 0 Watford 2

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Allan Smart played against us in this game, but not the other 1999 Playoff hero we signed from Carlisle, Nick Wright. He didn’t join them until November 1997.

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So why did we go such a long way to watch a football match? Quite simply addiction. I am addicted to Watford at the moment. I need my fix. If we keep playing like this, I am going to find it very hard to miss a game this season. Though we didn’t have it all our own way, and certainly this was our least impressive performance this season. But it was still a good performance, with everyone contributing in some way or another.