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7th July 2020- Premier League, Watford 2 Norwich City 1

Nigel Pearson has urged Watford not to underestimate Norwich City game

Norwich City will be without Todd Cantwell for their visit to Watford tonight

Nigel Pearson considering Watford team options for Norwich City visit

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First half

Second half

Craig Dawson’s goal (10 mins, 1-1)

Danny Welbeck’s goal (55 mins, 2-1)

Eat your heart out Nick Wright. Just over two decades on from that famous overhead kick against Bolton at Wembley, Danny Welbeck produced one equally outrageous that could, given its significance, be remembered just as fondly in years to come. Tim Krul, in the Norwich goal, didn’t stand a chance with the acrobatic effort on 55 minutes. What a time to score your first Premier League goal for the club and what a manner to get it in.

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Watford beat Norwich City in relegation dog fight

Watford put some much-needed breathing space between themselves and the relegation zone with a 2-1 win over bottom of the league Norwich City this evening. The Hornets had to come from behind in order to claim the three points however, after Emiliano Buendia opened the scoring after just five minutes. Craig Dawson levelled soon after, before Danny Welbeck’s sensational overhead kick clinched the points in the second-half.

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Nigel Pearson delighted for Danny Welbeck after Watford beat Norwich City

Watford players rated after coming from behind to beat Norwich City

Craig Dawson believes Danny Welbeck scored the best Watford bicycle kick

Watford’s Danny Welbeck describes his goal against Norwich City as one of his best

Pictures from Watford’s win over Norwich City

Norwich had a late chance to grab an equaliser, but 19-year-old Adam Idah shot wide from five yards out when sliding in at the back post.

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Watford boss Nigel Pearson on Welbeck’s performance: “He’s a player with a lot of ability and he’s had a really good career. To have a winner of such quality is great for us because it was a difficult game.

Minute by minute

You could argue that neither of them was very good. Certainly this would be true of Norwich: a side capable of such elegant football in possession but often a gibbering, blubbering wreck without it. Of the many truly useless teams in Premier League history, Norwich are by far the best of them: cultured, ambitious and yet likely to be relegated with three games to spare. Watford are a more complex proposition. This was huge for them and yet so laboured and inept was their performance that it offered zero reassurance for the tougher tests to come: Newcastle, West Ham, Manchester City, Arsenal. You would not really back them to win any of those. They may not have to

The last time Danny Welbeck scored a Premier League goal, he was still an Arsenal player and Boris Johnson was a backbench MP. What a way to emerge from a 23-month hibernation; a sensational overhead kick lighting up a drab game and securing Watford, the team he joined on a free transfer last August, all three points. It may prove the goal that keeps Waford in the Premier League.

If your only win in a dozen games is a riotous trashing of the then-unbeaten champions, that suggests you have more than a bit of a motivation problem. You can’t just wear deodorant on your wedding day.

In what was arguably the biggest game since our return to the Premier League, the boys talk about a performance that saw the Hornets come back for the first time in a long time, a wonder goal from Danny Welbeck and if Troy Deeney gave enough after many fans calling for him to not be in the starting XI.

7th July 2013- Friendly, Val Venosta XI 0 Watford 5

Watford Observer

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During the warm-up, it was obvious that the team would be turning out in their training kit, which I assumed reflected the approach to the game. They were also wearing what looked like training bras, but turned out to be monitors that track heart rate, movement etc. for analysis of a player’s performance.

7th July 2012- Gianfranco Zola is named Watford Head Coach

Although it wasn’t confirmed until the 7th it was widely reported beforehand that Zola would be our new Head Coach, although all the papers said his role would be manager, but he was never referred to as that by the club.

Evening Standard, 2 Jul 2012

Independent, 8 Jul 2012

Independent, 11 Jul 2012

Evening Standard, 11 Jul 2012