REPORT | A good night at Vicarage Road as the Hornets produce their best performance of the season to beat the Canaries watfordfc
Watford produced their best performance of the season to recover from consecutive defeats and beat high-flying Norwich City 2-1 at Vicarage Road tonight.
The Hornets were good value for their two-goal lead but some rare slack midfield play gave Josh Sargent the opportunity to halve the deficit just before the break when he fired a shot inside Daniel Bachmann’s near post. The Canaries also came into the game off the back of a defeat, a 3-2 home loss to Preston North End, and Dean Smith made two changes. Angus Gunn replaced Tim Krul in goal and Keiran Dowell was preferred to Aaron Ramsey in midfield.
Watford took the set piece short and tried to work a training ground move, with a Louza pass finding Sarr in a central position on the edge of the area, but the forward’s shot lacked the power and accuracy to unduly trouble Gunn.
Norwich responded purposefully with Dowell turning and hitting a left-footed strike from 20 yards or so which Bachmann could only parry out to the right side of the area where Max Aarons tried a cross-shot which zipped across the six-yard box and behind. Louza whipped in a free-kick from the left which fell for Gosling, who didn’t connect properly with a shot on the turn, the ball broke for Troost-Ekong, who saw his powerfully-struck effort blocked, but Davis managed to work an opening but struck his attempted finish too close to Gunn.
There was no surprise that the Canaries had more of the attacking play after the restart, with Louza forced to make a fine defensive tackle to prevent Sara from playing the ball into the six-yard box from the by-line, before Sargent had the ball in the net a second time but the flag was already raised for an offside against Teemiu Pukki.
Pedro’s first involvement was to send Sarr away with a fine pass on the left and the forward cut inside the area before hitting a right-footed shot which Gunn couldn’t hold, but Aarons reacted well to prevent Sema from pouncing on the rebound.
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