WFC.net Jon Marks Goal Commentary: 1  2

Sky: Jake Livermore scored twice from outside of the area as Watford came from under the cosh to dash QPR’s hopes of easing their relegation fears with a 2-1 win at Loftus Road.

BBC: Sinclair Armstrong carried the main threat for Rangers but it was Lyndon Dykes who reduced the deficit when he poked in substitute Paul Smyth’s cross from close range. They could not, though, find an equaliser – as Ben Hamer brilliantly denied Jimmy Dunne – and remain next to bottom of the table, while Watford climb five places to eighth, just one point short of the play-off spots.

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Bhappy: The game, the ball, the noise…. all of the second half’s madness was blown around the interior of the stadium’s cramped, enclosed space like a carrier bag in a gale.  Fitting, then, that the calmest head in this and so many other matches produced the one clear, true note above the carnage.  The ball came to Jake Livermore twenty-five yards out…  in all honesty he should have been closed down, Rangers had gotten bodies in the way of so much else but if you’re going to give anyone a free hit Livermore’s not a bad pick on previous evidence.  Here, instead, his clipped stroke was that of an artist, a flourish of the right foot reminiscent of Marco Cassetti’s poised ball for Matej Vydra in the Leicester play off eleven years ago except that this one required no further contribution, curling across the face of goal and bending inside the post past a helpless Begović.  The goalscorer’s reaction was almost comically relaxed, theatrical, raising his arms aloft in sanguine fashion as the yellow shirts converged.  Behind the goal there was pandemonium which had scarcely abated five minutes later, despite a wasted QPR chance in the interim, when on receiving the ball in a similar position Livermore dispatched again in a more brutal, industrial manner, hard and low, to sweep up the remains of the match that had been going on and replace it with a brand new one.