This season's promotion from the Championship promotion of Mar Watford can be said to have had a rather difficult time in the Premier League. Just as the Promotion Horse of the Premier League in recent years has always maintained a strong momentum, Brentford has taken over this position, and after Watford, who has already had a lot of experience in the Premier League, rushed to the Premier League again after a year, the performance of the "Hornets" is even worse than the fledgling "Little Bee", the team is currently only in the relegation zone with 2 points, and the slightest carelessness will fall.
And in this round met west ham united team that also encountered Waterloo, these two teams are in a relatively poor situation can be described as suffering to see the truth, after the last round was defeated by the relegation team Southampton, which gave Watford, who is also a relegation team, have confidence, and the opponent West Ham United also wants to vent the previous unhappiness with the opponent, and who is the deer who died?
Both sides of the lineup
Watford suffered an injury on the side, and veteran goalkeeper Ben Foster could not play, only Austrian goalkeeper Bachmann. In this game, "Potmaker" Ranieri lined up a 4-1-4-1 line-up, with Femenia, Sierraltha, Cathcart and Massina lined up in the back, while Kutska played the single back, and the four in front of him were Juan Hernandez, Tufan, Moussa Sissoko and Joshua Kim, the front single arrow Dennis, and Sal's injury was a disadvantage for Watford.
West Ham continued to use the 4-2-3-1 line-up from the previous game, with Ben Johnson, Issa Diop, Craig Dawson and Joofar lined up in the backline, and Masuyaku, who started the last game, was on the bench. The double back was played by Shoček and the veteran captain Noble, and Rice could not play due to suspension; Antonio single-handedly headed in front, and the three players behind him were Benrahma, Lancini and Bowen.
With the help of the Hornets, Noble set a record
Shortly after the opening, Watford, who took advantage of home advantage, scored a goal, and in the 5th minute Dennis received a pass from Joshua Kim and directly shook off the left-footed shot of the three defenders, and the score came to 1-0 unexpectedly.
Then the Hammers continued this good offensive posture, Watford side was gradually overwhelmed by the huge gap in strength, the time came to the 27th minute on the right side of the Road Chauffar inserted an assist Bowen, Bowen forward pass was understood by the understanding Shoczek GET, the latter directly forward to the ball to complete the score rewrite, 1-1. And in just 2 minutes, West Ham United's performance began again, Antonio passed Benahma received the ball and directly pushed the score back to 1-2, and the first half ended immediately.
Watford, who opened the second half with a score behind, clearly unfolded their familiar opening three axes, and Sissoko's several shots repeatedly threatened, but goalkeeper Fabianski's several high-and-low blocks did not lose the goal. And just a few minutes later, Watford's goalkeeper Bachmann, who came on as a substitute, once again gave a big gift to completely end the game, Bowen burst into the box to compete for two penalties when he was saved by Bachmann, which was obviously a persistent penalty, and then Noble's penalty was perfectly hit, and he also became the second top scorer in West Ham United history with 47 goals, and 15 years of merit is not blown.
And in the final moments of the game, Bowen again assisted the first goal of the player's West Ham United to seal the win, and Bowen, who has played well this season, has already delivered seven assists in the Premier League this season, which is the second most of all England players, and the West Ham "Messi" should be seen by Southgate.
Watford is under a spell and West Ham look to the future
After the 4-1 defeat to Manchester United, Watford has not won, no wonder some fans have teased them for hitting Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's "curse", for them, the reason for inviting Ranieri is to allow the team to continue to stay in the Premier League, and then there will be consecutive direct matches against relegation competitors Newcastle and Norwich, as long as it is not difficult to win relegation.
Although West Ham United won the team's second-best record in a single calendar year after this game, 22 wins, they could have broken the best 23 wins in the history of the team, and after suffering a large back injury, finding a reliable center-back in the winter window as soon as possible is the most urgent thing.