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Commentary
The referee yellow cards BUSQUETS for a cynical tackle.
A drive from GNABRY seemed a certain goal but GAZZANIGA managed to palm the ball clear.
10¹The motionless 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from BAIDOO fell just over.
12¹GOAL!! After being forced wide HØJLUND managed to ram the ball in from the tightest of angles. (1-0 Watford)
13¹GORETZKA booked for a cynical tackle on TUANZEBE.
17¹A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the advancing LENO.
18¹GOAL!! A shot from ZINCHENKO bobbled through a crowd of players and bounced past the unsighted GAZZANIGA. (2-0 Watford)
30¹GOAL!! After XHAKA was fouled the ref waved play-on and GNABRY went on to comfortably score. (3-0 Watford)
36¹UGARTE's shot was well held by the Watford 'keeper.
38¹A free-kick from GNABRY went inches wide.
MATIC shot wide.
The Watford 'keeper dived to his left to save a lovely drive from Middlesbrough's McNEIL.
15²The 'keeper was able to palm clear a weak shot from BUSQUETS.
17²A great save prevented McNEIL from scoring a great goal.
19²HØJLUND waltzed away from McNEIL and rifled a poor shot past the post.
22²NKETIAH was put clear by McNEIL and he pulled away from LENO but drilled his shot just beyond the far post.
26²An outswinging corner was fired into the arms of LENO by BUSQUETS.
26²WEILANDT yellow cards SARR for dangerous play against BAIDOO.
28²A great effort from BUSQUETS scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
32²A shot from NKETIAH was smothered by LENO.
35²SARR headed just wide.
37²HØJLUND booked for a cynical challenge.

 
Watford
 
League position: 8
Home league form: WLWW
Overall league form: LWLLLWWW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Bernd LENO1Paulo GAZZANIGA
NACHO2Axel TUANZEBE
Oleksandr ZINCHENKO3EMERSON PALMIERI dos Santos
Granit XHAKA4Manuel UGARTE
Jean-Clair TODIBO5TUTA
Samson BAIDOO6Naby SARR
Leon GORETZKA7Bertrand TRAORÉ
Serge GNABRY8Dwight McNEIL
(p)Emil HØJLUND9Eddie NKETIAH(p)
(c,f)Nemanja MATIC10Sergio BUSQUETS(c,f)
Ismaïla SARR11Adam HLOZEK
Manager
Arturo VIDAL  12  Ché ADAMS
Péter GULÁCSI  13  Marcus BETTINELLI
Jacob ONDREJKA  14  PAULINHO
Hirving LOZANO  15  Kouadio KONÉ
JONNY  16  Adama TRAORÉ
 
Middlesbrough
 
League position: 3
Away league form: LWLL
Overall league form: WLLWWWLL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Watford 3 Middlesbrough 0
(Half-time: 3-0, Attendance: 21,365, Stadium: Vicarage Road, Referee: Hilmar Weilandt 7½)

Højlund 12¹, Zinchenko 18¹, Gnabry 30¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
  
  
Goretzka 13¹, Højlund 37²Busquets 2¹, Sarr 26²
13
115
01
410
64
1014
19
44%56%
Man of the match: Nacho