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2¹ GOAL!! An energetic FAES ran down the wing and touched the ball back for ELSNIK to slip home. (1-0 Preston North End) 8¹ ESTUPIÑAN headed wide. 9¹ GOAL!! A shot from WILSON rolled through a ruck of players and trickled past the unsighted Preston North End 'keeper. (1-1) 18¹ AWONIYI shot wide. 21¹ A delightful save prevented DAWSON from scoring an exceptional goal. 21¹ MATHEUS PEREIRA played the ball to BROWNE who headed it inches wide. 26¹ GOAL!! A mishit goal-kick was intercepted by HUGHES who setup JOÃO PEDRO with an easy chance. (2-1 Watford) 34¹ A cross from SARR left AWONIYI in lots of space but he rushed his shot. 39¹ A pin-point pass found WILSON and his right foot effort flew narrowly over. 44¹ A penalty box meleé resulted in JOÃO PEDRO knocking a low shot wide. 3² WILSON was put clear by SARR and he stepped inside SÁNCHEZ but struck his shot just beyond the far post. 5² SÁNCHEZ managed to palm clear an amazing shot. 10² GARNER hoofed the ball wide from just inside the area. 12² GOAL!! A great twenty yard shot from JOÃO PEDRO rebounded off the the post and in the ensuing meleé the ball was kicked into the net by HUGHES. (3-1 Watford) 17² ZAGADOU rasped the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left. 20² A corner was collected by GARNER who forced an effort just beyond the near post. 21² ESTUPIÑAN rattled an easy chance past the near post. 25² KERKEZ fired a right foot shot inches wide from close range. 27² A tame shot from AWONIYI rolled agonisingly wide. 31² GARNER's shot was well saved by SÁNCHEZ. 36² The bemused 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from GARNER dropped just over. 43² The Preston North End 'keeper did well to hold onto a powerful strike from GARNER.

Watford   League position: 10 Home league form: LWWL Overall league form: LLWOXWXW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Loris KARIUS 7  1 6½ Robert SÁNCHEZ(c) (c)Craig DAWSON 5½ 2 7  Wout FAES Pervis ESTUPIÑAN 8  3 7  Milos KERKEZ Ismaïla SARR 7½ 4 7  Orel MANGALA Christian KABASELE 7  5 6½ Dan-Axel ZAGADOU Luke WOOLFENDEN 6  6 5½ Jordan STOREY Will HUGHES 6½ 7 6½ JEONG Sang-bin JOÃO PEDRO Junqueira 7  8 6½ MATHEUS Fellipe PEREIRA (p)Callum WILSON 7  9 6½ Emil RIIS(p) (f)James GARNER 6½ 10 5½ Alan BROWNE(f) Taiwo AWONIYI 6½ 11 6½ Timi ELSNIK Manager Francisco SIERRALTA    12    Luis BINKS Lucas BERGSTRÖM    13    Mark FLEKKEN Patrick DORGU    14    Patrick BAUER Michael MELLON 8  15    Ben DAVIES Liam GIBBS    16    Robbie BRADY

Preston North End   League position: 21 Away league form: OLLL Overall league form: OOWLLWLL Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Watford 3 Preston North End 1 (Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 20,739, Stadium: Vicarage Road, Referee: Graham Laws 7½) Wilson 9¹, João Pedro 26¹, Hughes 12² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Elsnik 2¹ DawsonóMellon 13²           4 5 6 13 3 6 8 3 11 5 19 8 4 2 57% 43% ¶ Man of the match: Michael Mellon ¶