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Commentary

1¹ A thirty yard shot from KRUNIC caused LENO little difficulty. 3¹ A fine ball from KRUNIC on the left found POLITANO who scuffed his effort just beyond the far post. 4¹ An exceptional effort from HALLER scraped the upright. 11¹ HALLER brought the ball past BAIDOO and rifled a weak shot wide. 12¹ A cross from LOZANO left GORETZKA in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot. 24¹ An inswinging corner was headed into the arms of the Reading 'keeper by GNABRY. 28¹ NACHO booked by the ref for a poor challenge. 30¹ GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of SARR who slammed the ball past the helpless RULLI. (1-0 Watford) 35¹ GOAL!! After MATIC was tripped the referee waved play-on and SARR went on to easily score. (2-0 Watford) 38¹ A shot from POLITANO was kicked off the line by BAIDOO. 40¹ GOAL!! An outswinging corner kicked out by BAIDOO was drove home by POLITANO. (2-1 Watford) 45¹ SARR whacked a looping shot over the bar from twenty-five yards out. 45¹ The 'keeper did well to hold onto an amazing shot from WILLIAM CARVALHO. 7² GOAL!! With his back to goal GNABRY turned and flicked the ball past the 'keeper. (3-1 Watford) 12² GNABRY headed the ball wide from just inside the area. 14² GOAL!! NACHO tried to play the ball out of the Watford penalty area but was tackled by POLITANO who turned the ball to HALLER for an easy goal. (3-2 Watford) 19² TODIBO beat two Reading players and drove a shot wide. 20² WILLIAM CARVALHO pulled away from ZINCHENKO but fired the ball into the arms of the Watford 'keeper. 25² POLITANO beat GORETZKA and drilled the ball to HALLER who blasted his effort wide. 28² GORETZKA was put clear by JONNY and he beat the Reading 'keeper but drilled his shot over the bar. 29² GOAL!! Watford were awarded a penalty after a foul on LOZANO and HØJLUND put it past the Reading 'keeper sending him the wrong way. (4-2 Watford) 34² HALLER's header was well saved by LENO.

Watford   League position: 10 Home league form: LXWW Overall league form: LLXLLLWW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Bernd LENO 6½ 1 6½ Gerónimo RULLI NACHO 7½ 2 6  Kane WILSON Oleksandr ZINCHENKO 7  3 6½ Christian GÜNTER Leon GORETZKA 8  4 6½ WILLIAM Silva CARVALHO Jean-Clair TODIBO 7  5 7  Tyrone MINGS Samson BAIDOO 6  6 6  JOSÉ Miguel FONTE(c) (c)Nemanja MATIC 5  7 6½ DAVID NERES Campos Serge GNABRY 7½ 8 7  Matteo POLITANO (p)Emil HØJLUND 6  9 6½ Sébastien HALLER(p) (f)Hirving LOZANO 6½ 10 6½ Rade KRUNIC(f) Ismaïla SARR 6½ 11 5½ Yakou MEITÉ Manager Brajan GRUDA    12    LUCAS Eduardo JOÃO Péter GULÁCSI    13   JONNY 6½ 14    Andy CARROLL Brayann PEREIRA    15    Omar RICHARDS Hendry BLANK    16    Tom PEARCE

Reading   League position: 20 Away league form: LWOL Overall league form: LXWXOWOW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Watford 4 Reading 2 (Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 21,376, Stadium: Vicarage Road, Referee: Iain Williamson 6) Sarr 30¹, Sarr 35¹, Gnabry 7², Højlund 29² (pen) Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Politano 40¹, Haller 14² MaticóJonny 18²       Nacho 28¹   3 5 12 15 2 2 9 8 9 8 18 16 3 6 51% 49% ¶ Man of the match: Leon Goretzka ¶