A nine-man Watford nearly salvaged a point against a tired Cardiff City squad. It took twenty minutes of being two men up and two minutes of added time for Cardiff to earn three points.
Tommie Hoban rebounded a Marco Cassetti shot from a yard out at the half hour mark to go ahead at the Cardiff City stadium. The score stood to the hour mark when Daniel Pudil earned a red card with violent behavior putting the Hornets a man short for the umpteenth time this season.
A point-blank shot was called a handball on Jonathan Hogg, earning a goal on the penalty kick from Peter Whittingham at minute 70. Within two minutes, Nathaniel Chalobah's petulant kicking away of the ball after an offsides earned him his second yellow and a trip to the showers.
Down two men, Watford held on as long as they could, even missing an opportunity to go ahead on Lloyd Doyley's third career goal, but in the end they could not plug all the holes.
Give them a B+ on fight, but an F on discipline - a recurring theme between cardings and poor set-piece defending. Is this the price of an itinerant squad?
We'll get to see next Saturday at Blackburn. Kickoff is 9:00 am St. Louis time.
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