**Official Match Thread - The Hornets v City**

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Slade has come out of a quiet week so far as City is concerned with a confident Q&A session with the media.  Nevertheless, I do feel that his constantly referring back to the home record is a bit Malkyesque, in that the attacking performances have not been great and we are still conceding goals and possession.  However, it is points on the board that are the most important at the moment and ensuring we have something to play for come January.

On that basis, I don't see much departure from what has gone before at Watford, but I would like to see the following team given a chance.  Terry Phillips at WO has put this side forward and it looks like a safe way of changing things around, without losing attacking potential.

Slade has talked about partnerships, so hopefully Brayford/Noone & Fabio/Pilkington can start to create some havoc with pace and skill out wide.  This side does have the potential to play 4 - 5 - 1 effectively.

Marshall

Brayford  Morrison  Turner  Fabio

Noone  Gunnarsson  Adeyemi  Whitts  Pilkington

Jones

With the likes of Le Fondre, Macheda, Ravel, Daelhi, Connolly, Ralls still available for the bench, it looks like a good awayday squad to me.  

Watford are coming off three straight defeats, but defensively there is little to choose between them and City (21 & 22 goals conceded).  However, they have scored 31 goals to our 23 and are 3 points above us in the table.  A 5 - 0 win for City today would see us go above them..........  

They still have some cracking attacking talent - Vydra, Forestieri & Deeney have 15 goals between them and the threat of Anya out wide may persuade to Slade to stick with Connolly rather than Fabio.  Personally, I'd rather have Brayford playing on his better side and let Watford worry about the threat that Fabio would bring down their right.

Not an easy game at all this and if City play as they did against Brum and in the second half against Reading, then they are going to get stuffed.

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Incidently, I've not seen Marshall wear all black before. It looks good.

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Watford fans are going mental...they're really on their own team's back

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My Flash player keeps crashing, so I can't get a stream

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Great tackle from Connolly. Absolutely superb

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It seems that Jones is making a big difference.

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We've been under the cosh for the last 10 minutes but our defence is very strong indeed.

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Cheers Rhys, but it is the plug-in that is crashing. Something not right with the laptop. I spent most of the day trying to get it sorted, but no luck yet.....

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tried a different browser?

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Half time. Solid first half against a very good Watford team.

Currently nothing that they have thrown at us has so much brought a sweat from Marshall. All very comfortable.

Jones has been superb, as has Connolly. In fact the whole team are putting on a very solid away performance. I'm impressed so far.

Watford are getting some pretty strong boos from their own fans every time they make a small mistake which is also helping.

45 minutes is plenty time for things to change around though

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Fabio has only been on a few minutes and already we look weaker at the back. Is he more of a winger than a full back?

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We can't actually seem to keep hold of the ball for longer a couple of passes

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Keep booting it up the field - under a lot of pressure at the moment

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Fabio is as dodgy as hell

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Fabio is as dodgy as hell

I've always said that.

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