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2nd March 2016- Premier League, Manchester United 1 Watford 0

I will always find it quite hard to forgive Ighalo for not passing to Deeney to put us 1-0 up.

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

https://www.premierleague.com/en/match/803439/manchester-united-vs-watford/overview

BBC: Had Ighalo not shot wide from Troy Deeney’s flick-on or chose to pass to his strike partner when David de Gea thwarted the Nigerian, the story of the match may have been very different.

Fran’s Watford Blog: It was a cruel result. Watford had been tremendous and were defeated by a lovely set piece in a game that they should have won. We had created most of the decent chances, but failed to finish so were punished. You have to feel for Ighalo whose confidence is low. He appears desperate to score and is getting into tremendous positions, but just cannot find the net. It was very pleasing to see Capoue back on form and, in fact, to see the whole team harrying their opponents and working their socks off. Quite rightly the Watford fans stood to cheer their team off, a marked contrast to the home fans who had long gone.

Independent, 3 Mar 2016

Evening Standard, 3 Mar 2016

Guardian, 3 Mar 2016

21st November 2015- Premier League, Watford 1 Manchester United 2

Referee:Robert Madley
Attendance:20,702
https://www.skysports.com/football/watford-vs-man-utd/teams/341315

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Troy Deeney’s last-minute own goal gave injury-hit Manchester United victory over Watford at Vicarage Road. Deeney looked to have earned a point for the Hornets with a late penalty, but then slid home a Bastian Schweinsteiger cross. Memphis Depay – starting a Premier League match for the first time since 4 October – netted United’s opener, volleying home an Ander Herrera cross.

Watford equalised with three minutes remaining through Deeney’s penalty after Odion Ighalo was brought down by Marcos Rojo – the first goal United had conceded in nearly 11 hours of football in all competitions.

There was one moment of serious concern for United. Young was caught in possession by Etienne Capoue, who presented Odion Ighalo with a clear opening only for the Nigerian marksman to shoot over midway through the first half.

Those final few minutes will be hard for Troy Deeney to absorb. Watford’s captain appeared to have rescued a point for the hosts when he shattered David de Gea’s magnificent resistance with a penalty in the 87th minute and it seemed that the day would end in frustration for United, who had spurned so many chances after Memphis Depay’s early goal. Yet the sucker punch came when Deeney’s attempt to clear Bastian Schweinsteiger’s shot ended with the ball trickling over the line. “It was painful,” Quique Sánchez Flores said.

It’s cold. Bloody cold. This sort of detail doesn’t feature in any statistical record of a season, but it should, it can be a defining piece of information. Think… Torquay in the Auto Windscreens Shield. Fulham on the last day of the season in 1998. Any visit to bloody Oldham. Characterised by the weather. Lest this slip through the cracks of your memory, should soccerbase fail to expand their database to accommodate weather conditions, let it be recorded for posterity that it’s cold.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2015-11-21

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/premier-league/23-november-2015/

10th August 2013- Championship, Watford 6 AFC Bournemouth 1

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=5070

Troy Deeney fired in a hat-trick as Watford thrashed newly promoted Bournemouth to go top of the table.

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Troy Deeney hit a hat-trick as Watford hammered Bournemouth 6-1 in their Championship clash at Vicarage Road.

Troy Deeney scored a second-half hat-trick as Watford demolished Bournemouth at Vicarage Road and sent a strong message to their Championship promotion rivals.

Watford signalled their Premier League ambitions with five goals in a ruthless second half display to crush newly-promoted Bournemouth.

Even for world-weary types like your correspondent, who prefer their battles hard-fought and their victories without any sense of entitlement, this is terribly hard to resist. It almost feels as if the anticlimax at Wembley didn’t happen; perhaps it was such a non-event, swimming in the spring heat haze, that any memories have simply evaporated and left little trace. What might’ve been a watershed moment just passed quietly into history, and here we are: the old gang, back together for another shot at the big time. Even for world-weary types, it’s a tantalising prospect.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2013-08-10

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/10-august-2013/

5th March 2005- Championship, Watford 2 Coventry City 3

Nobody is without imagination. We all have dreams, carried with us wherever we go in hope more than expectation…but with a little expectation nevertheless. And that, perhaps, explains the thoroughly half-hearted nature of yesterday’s proceedings, for nobody can have been unaware that these were wasted hours, dribbled tediously away while others went in search of fulfilled dreams. Somewhere, someone spent the afternoon of Saturday 5th March 2005 doing something that they’ll remember forever, that they’ll take to the grave as a personal, irreplaceable treasure. And it wasn’t me. And it wasn’t you either.

https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2005-03-05

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/05-march-2005/

26th October 2004- League Cup Third Round, Sheffield United 0 Watford 0 (After Extra Time, Watford won 4-2 on penalties)

Jack Smith scored the winning spot-kick as Watford won 4-2 on penalties after a dismal Carling Cup third-round game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305_Football_League_Cup

9th March 2010- Championship, Watford 0 Swansea City 1

http://watford.fcdb.info?s=34196&id=4624

3rd January 2004- FA Cup Third Round, Watford 2 Chelsea 2

Watford produced an outstanding display to secure a lucrative FA Cup third round replay at Chelsea.

Rich pickings for Watford

Desailly left chasing shadows as Hornets provide the sting

Sunday Telegraph, 4 Jan 2004

Independent, 5 Jan 2004

Evening Standard, 5 Jan 2004

This was astonishing. I mean, it was many things, and you can find a convenient list under “magnificent” in your thesaurus. But it was astonishing, first and foremost. There will be some comments about how the performance throws the rest of our under-achieving season into sharp relief, but they’ll miss the point. The point being that we could not possibly have expected eleven players to over-achieve in such an extraordinary manner. Not to that extent. Not for that long. Way beyond “spirited”, this was a brief and tenuous, but very real, bridging of that impossible gulf. It happened. Even more remarkably, it happened for ninety minutes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%E2%80%9304_FA_Cup