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28th September 2024- Championship, Watford 2 Sunderland 1

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WFC.Net goal commentary: 1 2

Report: Watford 2-1 Sunderland – Watford FC Download

BBC: Sunderland missed the chance to go top of the Championship when they were beaten by Watford at Vicarage Road. The visitors were looking to take advantage of West Brom’s defeat at Sheffield Wednesday earlier on Saturday, but fell behind to Festy Ebosele’s opening goal.

Sky: And it was the home side who got the game’s decisive third breakthrough just six minutes of the game remaining, when Kwadwo Baah was upended in the area by O’Nien, allowing Dele-Bashiru to step up and convert from the spot.

Watford Observer: RECAP: Watford 2 Sunderland 1

Watford boss knows fans are asking why Baah isn’t starting

Baah’s power and Ogbonna’s assuredness key to Watford win

BHappy: It’s a great win, obviously, on so many levels. The first in five ends a winless run and the nature of it underlines that summer portents of a relegation struggle look off the mark. More than anything, to beat a strong side like Sunderland (and, yes, second in the league but then everyone’s within a win or so of second in this division. Almost everyone.) without playing dreadfully well (“and with Porto at right wing back” – Cathal afterwards) says an awful lot for this side. Tom has talked of making Vicarage Road a fortress. We’re well on the way.

Fran’s Watford Blog: Vicarage Road was bouncing at the end. The Hornets had been excellent in the first half, while Sunderland had the better of the second half. But the Watford defence was resilient and the win, if a bit fortunate, was very welcome. Most of the players impressed. Larouci had a much better game than he has of late. Chakvetadze, Kayembe and Sissoko were their usual reliable selves. I really enjoyed Ebosele’s performance, he showed strength and pace and a willingness to run at the defence, he put in some decent crosses and his goal was excellent. Porteous suffered in comparison, having a bit of a mare at right wing back. Bayo had another frustrating afternoon, but he did get into some dangerous positions. Sadly, the same could not be said of Jebbison when he came on.

From The Rookery End: Watford are back to winning ways, and we were there to see an intriguing afternoon unfold. Mike, Jas, Jon and Kieran convened at Full Time to talk through a thrilling win for the Hornets, trying to work out what Watford’s best starting XI is along the way. You can also hear from makeshift Right Wing Back Ryan Porteous, who spoke to DCW the day before the game.

28th September 2019- Premier League, Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 Watford 0

Referee: Paul Tierney
Attendance: 30,711

Watford beaten by Wolverhampton Wanderers in bottom of the league clash

Watford’s search for a league win continues after Wolverhampton Wanderers defeat

Quique Sanchez Flores insists Watford are working hard to improve fortunes after Wolverhampton Wanderers loss

Watford players rated after defeat at Wolverhampton Wanderers

Nuno Espirito Santo describes Watford as ‘very tough’ opponents

Tom Cleverley thinks it will take time for Watford to improve

Tom Cleverley claims Watford’s game against Sheffield United is now of huge importance

Wolves climbed out of the relegation zone with a 2-0 victory against Watford at Molineux, deepening Quique Sanchez Flores’ side’s troubles at the bottom of the Premier League table in the process.

A Matt Doherty strike followed by a Daryl Janmaat own goal either side of half-time was enough to secure the three points.

“We have problems, we have insecurities. We made easy mistakes that give advantage to an opponent. All these things happen when you are a bit down,” Sánchez Flores said. His general criticism soon gave way to a more specific critique however, with the Spaniard suggesting his players had not understood, or failed to act upon, his instructions.

Wolves’ second took any fight out of us, and there was no praying for minutes as the board goes up, no suggestion of a fightback. Maybe all it would have taken was a goal, home fans suddenly nervous in the closing minutes, we’ll never know. In the same way there are several ways to interpret this game… given this vantage point, given last week, given no wins and such little fight it’s difficult not to be negative.

As I left work on Friday, I had a chat with one of my colleagues about our chances for the weekend. He reminded me that going to football was supposed to be fun. He is so right and, sadly, the games really aren’t fun at the moment. I hope that changes very soon.

28th September 2013-Championship, Watford 1 Wigan Athletic 0

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report:It’s difficult at the best of times to maintain an air of authority and dignity when you’re wearing pyjamas

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28th September 2010- Championship, Watford 2 Swansea City 3

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Swansea survived a remarkable Watford fight back to record their first away win of the season in the league.

As so often with Brendan Rodgers, the reality was greyer than the eye-catching press release. If Vicarage Road was ever able to summon up a tabloid-friendly “hate mob”, then someone’s evidently mislaid the pitchforks and flaming torches in the years since; the lurid pre-match hype conjured up some exciting images – heads on spikes for goalposts, that kind of thing – but it’s remarkably hard to get genuinely angry about a dull, stumpy man in a raincoat. He’s not got a career in pantomime to fall back on, put it that way.

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28th September 2004- Championship, Watford 0 Wigan Athletic 0

Beforehand, so much of the talk had been about countering the threat of Ellington and Roberts, and doing so without the considerable presence of Sean Dyche. Afterwards, so much of the talk should be about Neil Cox and Lloyd Doyley, who bossed that much-vaunted partnership about for the duration. For Cox, it was an evening of timely interventions, confident decisions, and minimal mistakes; the player that we appointed captain many months ago has not yet left the club. For the masterful Doyley, it was all about basic defending amplified to eleven: always tight, always disciplined, always quick, always concentrating, never beaten. Between them, and with plenty of help from elsewhere, they kept potent, strong, pacy strikers very quiet indeed.

http://watford.fcdb.info?id=4619

28th September 2002- New Division One, Sheffield United 1 Watford 2

This was the first game played after the players had been asked to take a 12% wage cut as the seriousness of the club’s financial position, in the wake of the collapse of ITV Digital and the overspending of the Vialli era, became clear.

Icelandic striker Heidar Helguson was at the centre of two pivotal first-half minutes as Watford toppled high-flying Sheffield United.

The Observer, 29 Sep 2002

The Guardian, 30 Sep 2002

Within the last seven days the severity of Watford’s financial mess has been dramatically highlighted, the club’s staff both on and off the pitch have volunteered an unsecured 12% deferment of wages, and administration has been spoken of as a serious possibility for the first time. One of the most distressing weeks supporting the football club that many of us can remember.

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