A soft pitch & a light home crowd saw an exciting game today that left the Hornets on their way to Round 5 of the FA Cup.
Lloyd Doyley & Will Hoskins entered the starting line-up as the only changes from last Saturday's loss.
Watford put the pressure on early only to have Jon Harley miss an easy shot from 3 yards out in the second minute, but Jay DeMerit found the back of the net in the sixteenth minute from ten yards out off a cleared corner from former Palace man Jobi McAnuff. McAnuff's cross in the 27th minute set up Jack Cork's header and left Watford up by 2-0 at the half.
Palace responded to Neil Warnock's half-time ass-chewing nearly scoring twice in succession from set plays and eventually converting a free kick three minutes in after DeMerit fouled Alan Lee.
Watford responded by counter-attacking, abandoning the deep, defensive play they'd adopted after the first goal. At sixty-six minutes, Hoskins generated the space for a Grzegorz Rasiak shot that was cleared, but the resulting corner by McAnuff let Rasiak return the favor, setting up a Hoskins goal to pull two ahead again. A McAnuff cross gave Rasiak his own goal four minutes later.
Paul Ifill trimmed the lead in the 82nd minute. Finally, Ifill found his way around Robert Keirnan (making his first team debut) in added to time to make the score a bit closer than it was.
Winning this match puts another £100,000 in the Hornet's coffers & gives them the shot at a 'name' draw for Round Five. The draw for Round Five will be tomorrow, Sunday January 26 with the matches being played Valentine's Day weekend.
Next match for Watford is Tuesday, January 27 when Burnley visits Vicarage Road. Kickoff is 1:45 pm St. Louis time.
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