Watford vs Sheffield United

EFL Championship Matchweek 26 - Saturday 4th January 2025 - 15:00 - Vicarage Road
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[SRBlade]

Watford doing exactly same tactics as Sunderland......let us have the ball to just past halfway line then a quick press rob the player and break extremely fast.

I would absolutely do the same, anytime forwards have ran at Anel and Robinson it's been scary

 

[Sheffsteel]

Watford doing exactly same tactics as Sunderland......let us have the ball to just past halfway line then a quick press rob the player and break extremely fast.

Agree that’s what I noticed.

In general we controlling the game without actually doing much in front of goal.

We look like the home side with
Watford happy to sit back defending. It’s a shame that our defence is no longer rock solid.

 

[paidsy]

That’s my concern.

With Souter it looked so easy keeping clean sheets.

Now we don’t have Souter think clean sheets will be rare, think we’ll concede at least 1 goal every game, so that means we need to be scoring 2 or 3 goals every match if we want to win.

We are going to need to find goals, which I think is more tricky due to how we seem to play, or need to plug the defence or we are in for a tough run.

 

[paidsy]

I also think Anel's limitations are completely exposed again, if there are any interested parties it might be a good time to entertain them...

 

[fifty shades of blade]

First touch training for o'hare

 

[Iceybabey]

Two bang average teams here

 

[HeySethUTB]

I’ve already posted these stats but there’s a reason why we’ve made 3rd most defensive actions in the final third and allowed the 5th most progressive carries into our own third. Comparative to the mighty Plymouth. Any decent player with pace has done this to us all season.

 

[derfblade.3]

Is Hamer on 4 bookings?

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

O'Hare very unlucky to not score, great pressing

 

[Sheffsteel]

So unlucky.

O’Hare closing down the keeper. He tries to clear it under pressure and kicks it straight at O’Hare.

The rebound looks goal bound…..but it goes a few inches the wrong side of the post. Lucky let off for Watford.

We’re all over Watford but they’re defending in numbers making it tough to break down.

 

[paidsy]

I’ve already posted these stats but there’s a reason why we’ve made 3rd most defensive actions in the final third and allowed the 5th most progressive carries into our own third. Comparative to the mighty Plymouth. Any decent player with pace has done this to us all season.

Which is why some of us are mightily concerned about some of the actions taken by the management.

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

FKIN CROSS THE BALLINTO THE BOX

 

[paidsy]

Is Hamer on 4 bookings?

9

 

[Keen Blade]

Watford doing exactly same tactics as Sunderland......let us have the ball to just past halfway line then a quick press rob the player and break extremely fast.

We do seem poor at learning from previous games - but I guess we are tightly schooled by CW to stick to a gameplan come hell or high water

 

[SUFC1998]

Why does brooks never take a man on down the wing always looking to go inside or backwards so annoying to watch

 

[paidsy]

We do seem poor at learning from previous games - but I guess we are tightly schooled by CW to stick to a gameplan come hell or high water

Which is suicidal

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

Poor refereeing again, did not need to stop play when Watford player fell to the floor.

 

[Sheffsteel]

Two bang average teams here

Disagree, we’re playing like Man City on a bad day and similar to how Sunderland played against us at Bramall Lane.

Some beautiful one touch passing making Watford chase shadows but we’ve no cutting edge up front.

It’s pass for the sake of passing but at least we’re very comfortable in possession with some excellent one touch passing.

 

[Rufus Smalls]

Why does brooks never take a man on down the wing always looking to go inside or backwards so annoying to watch

Because his right peg is non existent

 

[Northernsoulblade]

Two bang average teams here

Nail head still there for the taking again

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

And again poor. Referring. Watford man pushed O'Hare and does f all. Davies sticking up for O'Hare. Davies solo booking...bs

 

[fifty shades of blade]

And again poor. Referring. Watford man pushed O'Hare and does f all. Davies sticking up for O'Hare. Davies solo booking...bs

Then the spindly legged cunt blows for an offside for us when we're on the break

 

[Iceybabey]

And again poor. Referring. Watford man pushed O'Hare and does f all. Davies sticking up for O'Hare. Davies solo booking...bs

Pulling it back for offside n all wtf

 

[paidsy]

Feels like we haven't had a meaningful shot in forever now

 

[BangorBlade]

Hull 1- Leeds 0 HT

 

[Thrice]

Vini Souza can't return soon enough.

 

[robbiez666]

Bit of messy first half for both teams. Both defences looking a little iffy. It's frightening when they run at us though. Lucky there has been some bad decision making.

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

Feels like we haven't had a meaningful shot in forever now

There you go, Hamer from 95 yards out!!!

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

Crap goal to concede, should be beating these- fortunately off the bench we’ve got…. Oh

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

Hull 1- Leeds 0 HT

Want to see HT changed to FT