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14th January 2023- Championship, Watford 2 Blackpool 0

WFC.Net Goal Commentary: 1 2

Attendance: 19,679

BBC Sport: Teenage substitute Tobi Adeyemo helped send Watford up to third in the Championship with his first senior goal in a win against strugglers Blackpool.

Sky Sports: The striker, 17, looked as stunned as he was elated to have found the net in the 72nd minute – just four minutes after replacing Vakoun Bayo for his first taste of league action.

BHappy: His celebration is magnificent, and mirrors the response in the stands – pure joy to start with, he has the armspan of an albatross. Then giddy disbelief as he clutches his fingers to his scalp before being mobbed, youth team colleague Jack Grieves first on the scene from his touchline warm-up. The youngster’s popularity is evident from the reaction of his teammates, who make a bee-line for the mob in the corner.

Fran’s Watford Blog: As if a goal from a 17 year-old making his league debut wasn’t pleasing enough, he scored it in the 72^nd minute on the GT matchday. I am sure that the great man was celebrating with the rest of us.

26th November 2022- Friendly, Watford 1 Blackpool 1 (played at the Pinatar Arena, Spain)

Game played behind closed doors

Watford Observer: Head coach Slaven Bilic took the chance to take a look at Jeremy Ngakia on the right side of defence for the first time, while midfielder Tom Dele-Bashiru also started – though it must be said the line-up was almost totally changed during the interval.

8th October 2022- Championship, Blackpool 3 Watford 1

WFC.NET goal commentary: 1

Attendance: 11,567

BBC Sport: Blackpool ended a four-match winless run as Jerry Yates’ late double sunk Slaven Bilic’s Watford at Bloomfield Road.

Sky Sports: The Hornets were booed off by the travelling fans as new boss Slaven Bilic watched over a second straight defeat, leaving them 12th on 17 points while Blackpool climbed to 19th with 15 points.

Fran’s Watford blog: There was much anger among those gathered at the perimeter fence. Troost-Ekong came over to give his shirt to a fan, which was a very brave act as he was subjected to considerable abuse. Front and centre was the lad who had broken the seats who had several stewards around him and was lucky not to be taken away. The other players kept their distance and quickly disappeared down the tunnel.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63099156

24th January 2015-Championship, Watford 7 Blackpool 2

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Odion Ighalo scores four as Watford hammer Blackpool 7-2

Watford’s Odion Ighalo scores four in seven-goal rout of Blackpool

The 7-2 victory over Blackpool was the sixth time Watford had scored seven in a Vicarage Road league fixture since 1945

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16th September 2014- Championship, Blackpool 0 Watford 1

https://watford.fcdb.info/index.php?page=matches

WFC.Net goal commentary: 1

BBC: Watford climbed up to second in the Championship as Matej Vydra’s second-half penalty secured a 1-0 win at struggling Blackpool.

BHappy: Impatience in the away end was beginning to rear its graceless head, Matej Vydra too often on the receiving end. This was inappropriate on any number of levels, the two most glaring being that barracking a striker low on confidence really isn’t likely to achieve the desired outcome and that, actually, this was a performance more assertive than many of those since his return. For starters there was no shortage of effort and, yes yes, “showing you’re bothered” as a meter of quality has its limitations but in Vydra’s energetic closing down there was at least evidence of something. The pivotal change in the game was the introduction of Dyer for McGugan, which gave the side far better balance. Within a minute Anya was screaming down the right, his clever ball inside to Vydra lashed hungrily into the side netting. Then we got the goal and it was a far more elegant thing than a 68th minute penalty might sound, the sort of quality that can win a good side a game as the Premier League taught us all too well. Pudil, a rival for Ekstrand as man of the match, sent an evil pass through for Dyer borne of the winger’s movement and Pudil’s awareness and leaving Tony McMahon with no option but to make a challenge that he was never going to execute successfully. Deeney, one assumes, delegated penalty-taking responsibility to his strike partner and kudos to him for doing so as the Czech finished expertly… he needed a goal and acknowledged the travelling Hornets with a grin.

Evening Standard, 17 Sep 2014

Independent, 17 Sep 2014

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/