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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 31 (setup 4, season 34)
Watford
v.
Darlington
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
19
Overall form:
Home form:
Ben FOSTER817Hugo LLORIS
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
10
Overall form:
Home form:
Craig DAWSON727Gregory VAN DER WIEL
SAMIR Caetano de Souza Santos737Jan VERTONGHEN
Abdoulaye DOUCOURÉ48Jordan HENDERSON
Craig CATHCART57Fįbio Henrique Tavares, FABINHO
Christian KABASELE667Joėl MATIP
Will HUGHES67Pierre LEES-MELOU
JOĆO PEDRO Junqueira de Jesus8Danny WELBECK
Juan Camilo Hernįndez Suįrez, CUCHO69Mario Barwuah BALOTELLI
Tom CLEVERLEY6106Matt RITCHIE
Emmanuel Bonaventure DENNIS6116Stevan JOVETIC
Manager
Kwadwo BAAH12Christian GENTNER
Karl DARLOW13Jon FLATT
Marco STIEPERMANN614Federico MACHEDA
Domingos QUINA15John BOSTOCK
16Yasser LAROUCI

Watford 2 Darlington 0
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 20,736, Stadium: Vicarage Road, Referee: Rob SHOEBRIDGE 7)
46 Hughes, 77 Joćo PedroScorers
53 Hughes <=> StiepermannSubstitutions
Sendings off
Bookings22 Ritchie, 48 Balotelli
7Corners5
9Fouls13
1Offsides4
9Shots on7
11Shots off7
20Total shots14
5Shots saved7
45%Possession55%
Man of the match: Ben FOSTER
6A shot from SAMIR seemed a certain goal but the Darlington 'keeper managed to punch the ball away.
8The motionless FOSTER was a mere bystander as a backpass from SAMIR dropped just over.
9HUGHES whacked a right foot shot wide from twenty-five yards out.
13HENDERSON clipped the ball through a ruck of players but FOSTER was a match for it as he dived to his left.
19Uncertainty in the Darlington defence enabled CLEVERLEY to thump an effort wide.
22SHOEBRIDGE books RITCHIE for a poor challenge.
28A good ball from BALOTELLI on the right fell to WELBECK who sliced his shot over the bar.
34LLORIS was able to claw away a poor shot from SAMIR.
35HUGHES headed just wide.
36A penalty box meleé resulted in HUGHES cracking a low shot wide.
37A strike from RITCHIE held little difficulty for the Watford 'keeper.
 
46GOAL!! Watford's HUGHES beat two defenders before firing just inside the Darlington 'keeper's far post. (1-0 Watford)
48A bad tackle gets BALOTELLI a yellow card.
49A header by CUCHO at the near post was easily collected by the Darlington 'keeper.
57An inswinging corner was forced into the arms of the Watford 'keeper by JOVETIC.
68CUCHO charged through the Darlington defence but shot straight at the 'keeper.
72A twenty-five yard drive from CUCHO caused LLORIS no problem.
74JOĆO PEDRO beat four Darlington players and drove an effort wide.
77GOAL!! A twenty-five yard free-kick was skillfully slammed into the net by JOĆO PEDRO. (2-0 Watford)
81A free-kick from LEES-MELOU flew over.
82WELBECK ran onto a great ball from HENDERSON but toe-poked his effort wide.
88A tame strike from JOĆO PEDRO rolled agonisingly wide.