26th August 2014- League Cup Second Round, Watford 1 Doncaster Rovers 2 Leave a Reply http://watford.fcdb.info?id=5125 1-1 League One Doncaster upset Championship side Watford to secure a place in the third round of the Capital One Cup. Nathan Tyson opened the scoring from the penalty spot against a sluggish Watford, who made a host of changes. The Hornets sparked into life in the 31st minute when Lloyd Dyer scored from a smart flick from Odion Ighalo. But after the break, Doncaster were quickly into their stride and when Liam Wakefield converted on 52 minutes there was no way back for Watford. Watford-1-2-Doncaster-Rovers-BBC-SportDownload The Hornets, who made a host of changes but should still have boasted a team strong enough to advance, paid the price for making a sluggish start in both halves as Rovers scored early in both periods. Ahhhh, the early rounds of the League Cup, eh?  That comfortable familiar dullness, the football season’s equivalent of a Sunday afternoon repeat of Last of the Summer Wine…  yes it’s fist-chewingly tedious but at least you know where you are. Doncaster gave a warning of what was to come in the second minute as Bennett found Tyson on the right whose shot flew just past the far post. At the other end, Vydra cut inside but his shot was blocked.  Doncaster had another decent chance as Coppinger fired just wide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%9315_Football_League_Cup Share this:TwitterFacebook
17th September 2013- Championship, Watford 2 Doncaster Rovers 1 Leave a Reply Lewis McGugan converted a penalty with three minutes remaining to earn Watford a dramatic victory over Doncaster. A late penalty from Lewis McGugan brought Watford a first win in five league matches and sent them surging back into the top six, but the difficulty they had in finding a way past Doncaster offered further proof that last season’s wildly entertaining if ultimately frustrated attempt at promotion will not necessarily segue into a more irresistible upwards surge at their second attempt under Italian ownership. Where we continue to fail, rather too obviously, is in making our possession count for anything much. We’re caught between simple ball retention, knocking it around without much purpose, and trying to penetrate opponents who’ve been afforded the time to get themselves in order. Occasionally, we stumble on what might be a way out of the cul-de-sac: here, Gabriele Angella launched a sublime, far-reaching pass to find an advancing Anya, cutting through the banks of four in an instant. But, inevitably, that simply led to repeated attempts at the same thing with diminishing results, and it wasn’t long before Angella’s missiles harked back to Jay Demerit trying to fulfil childhood dreams of being a quarterback in the Boothroyd years. http://watford.fcdb.info?id=5076 Share this:TwitterFacebook
31st December 2011- Championship, Watford 4 Doncaster Rovers 1 Leave a Reply More games from 31st December at https://oldwatford.com/tag/dec31 Share this:TwitterFacebook
26th February 2011- Championship, Doncaster Rovers 1 Watford 1 Leave a Reply Jason Euell’s first goal for injury-hit Doncaster earned a key point for his new side against play-off chasing Watford who had John Eustace sent off. https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2011-02-26 https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-championship/26-february-2011/ Share this:TwitterFacebook
11th September 2010-Championship, Watford 2 Doncaster Rovers 2 Leave a Reply SKY report report: The change in script owed everything to Marvin Sordell, whose contribution and its implications set the afternoon aside from the joyless misery that was the Leeds defeat. http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4923 https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=2010-09-11 Championship table from the evening of 11th September 2010 Share this:TwitterFacebook