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8th September 2026- Championship, Watford 2 Preston North End 1

Watford Observer: ‘We’re Watford, we’ve got to be pushing to win these games’

Watford Observer: MATCHDAY AS IT HAPPENED: Watford 2-1 Preston North End

Match Report: Doumbia header seals Watford comeback win over Preston

Dionisi hails ‘big, big result’ as Watford battle major fitness issues to win

Dionisi: ‘Fantastic Kayembe is an example every day’

Excellent Ravaglia is keeping Watford in every game

Doumbia: ‘I tell the wingers before every game, make the cross’

Match-winner Doumbia: ‘Dionisi tells me he loves me’

BBC:Watford came from a goal down to beat Preston North End 2-1 at Vicarage Road to bounce back from two successive Championship defeats.

Sky; Callum Lang had shot the visitors ahead in the sixth minute as the visitors threatened to overrun the Hornets, who hit back with two second-half goals in seven minutes from Edo Kayembe and Mamadou Doumbia.

Fran’s Watford Blog: It had been a terrible first half of football, but the changes at the break made all the difference and it was a decent performance in the second half. Bravo made all the difference as, finally, we had someone in the midfield battling for the ball and launching attacks. His cross for Doumbia’s goal was perfect. He was my man of the match, but praise should also go to Ravaglia without whom we would have been further behind when we scored. Maamma was another bright spark. He has struggled in recent games, but was back to his best, powering down the wing and making the goal for Kayembe. He was also seen on more than one occasion tracking back and making important tackles. Kayembe gets a hard time from a section of the fan base, but he worked hard and I was glad that he scored and received the adulation from the fans. Similarly, Doumbia, who worked hard all evening and was rewarded with a goal.

From the Rookery End: Watford came from behind to beat Preston North End 2-1 at Vicarage Road – but it took a dramatic half-time intervention to turn a pretty grim evening around.

8th September 1998- New Division One, Huddersfield Town 2 Watford 0

Programme images courtesy of Matt Hall

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

BSAD: The teams came out on to the pitch to a deafening rendition of the theme tune from “The Omen” (I kid you not) which quite successfully drowned out any crowd noise there might have been. We started with what appeared to be a fairly balanced though defensive line-up, with Gibbs, Kennedy, Palmer, Millen, and Yates in defence, Smart, Micah, and Johnno in midfield, and Ngonge and Smart leading the forward line.

Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 8 Sep 1998
Daily Mirror, 9 Sep 1998

8th September 1979- Division Two, Bristol Rovers 1 Watford 1

https://watford.fcdb.info?id=3298&s=165174&p=1

Watford Observer match report

Sunday Mirror, 9 Sep 1979
Sunday People, 9 Sep 1979
https://www.soccerbase.com/matches/results.sd?date=1979-09-08
https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-two/08-september-1979/