Actually a very encouraging first half, with of course the one bad part being that we don’t have a single player who doesn’t turn into a 6 year old playing football for the first time in front of goal.
Can’t afford to continue wasting the chances in final third ffs. Corners wasted and two chances wasted. No luck at the bottom. The corner before the goal( the worst corner all season) van **** looked like it hit his arm to go out for corner. ? Anyone else see it ? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
If ANY of our players could cleanly strike a ball when presented with a goal scoring opportunity, then we would be comfortably mid table. It’s as simple as that.
I bet there will be a cracking compilation video of Watford’s finishing at the end of this season, soundtracked by the Benny Hill theme tune of course. Doucoure and Sarr have just posted two highlights for the show reel in that half.
Shame hughes was wrongly booked, he looked bang on it up until that point. If we come out second half and concede straight away ( which we usually do ) we’ll get stuffed again. If we come out with the same attitude and desire as the first, we might sneak something
Nige looks to have set you up well. Nothing he can do about the miskicks. Liverpool are the luckiest team in the world
Interesting stat on my stream, in the 8 games Kabbs has started we’ve lost one. In the 8 games he hasn’t started we’ve lost them all.
The need to find someone to finish in January is painfully obvious. It’s rare to get any clear chances at Anfield. It’s a good sign that we have created 3 clear chances in the first half but the finishing is a joke
Our defence isn’t actually that bad, it can be organised and motivated by the right manager. We’re doing everything absolutely fine right up until the crucial final bit of it all. Not having somebody that can at least put some of these chances away will be what relegates us, nothing else.
Ridiculously harsh and marginal offside decision, but we really should be winning. First time since our first season we’ve given one of the big two an actual game of it.
I couldn’t pick a bad player today, only when they’ve been presented with a genuine opportunity to score.
The American commentator put it nicely. "Nearly and nearly is a lot closer than it has been for Watford at times this season"
This is why Pearson can’t keep us up. We looked pretty well organised, well drilled, worked hard and for 99% matched or even bettered them. There’s nothing he or anyone else can do about our lack of quality in the final third or the never ending stream of mistakes in defence.
Were we "improved" on the whole? Yes. Were we still thoroughly, woefully, hideously incompetent in front of goal? Yes. Are we going down? Yes.
I said this after the Palace game: "Familiar story - we could get in to loads of excellent positions and rain in hundreds of crosses, but if the only target in the box is lard-arse Deeney standing at the bus stop then what's the point?!" Sure, Doucoure, Sarr and Deulofeu all fluffed very good chances which they should have scored from, but at the very least they got in to scoring positions. Meanwhile, I don't think Deeney even touched the ball in their box and was caught as usual well behind the excellent cross Sarr put in after 5 minutes. We need our midfielders to get scoring, but it certainly doesn't help us with a striker that provides absolutely zero goal threat. All Deeney did was win a few headers which went to nobody. Get rid.
Proud of the lads. Great effort. Apart from Deeney. I blame him for all the others missing easy chances. ****.
