REPORT | Hornets twice unable to capitalise on a winning position as they're forced to settle for a point WatfordFC
It’s now one win in seven Championship games for Watford after they were twice unable to hold onto a winning position as Sunderland secured a 2-2 draw at Vicarage Road.
O’Nien headed past his own keeper to put Watford back in front, but rather than go for the jugular and seek to kill off their opponents, it was the visitors who asked more of the attacking questions and they were rewarded when Jewison Bennette fired home in the latter stages. Sunderland came into the game off the back of a 3-0 win at Reading in midweek and boss Tony Mowbray made just the one enforced change, with Elliot Embleton replacing the injured Ellis Simms.
Troost-Ekong needed to be alert to prevent Alex Pritchard from getting a clean header on a cross from the right, but it was the hosts who continued to have the bulk of the play in the opening 20 minutes. Asprilla was the orchestrator with a superb angled pass which Kamara didn’t even have to break stride to latch onto behind the Black Cats defence, his low centre wasn’t the best but Patterson was unable to get a full glove on it and the grateful Davis was presented with a tap-in for his first Hornets goal.
Their first good opening of the second period came in the 54th minute when Edo Kayembe progressed the ball to Pedro centrally and he slipped in Asprilla on the right side of the area where the young Colombian tried to place his finish, but Patterson was not unduly troubled. Mowbray responded by bringing on Amad Diallo for Embleton, the Black Cats thinking they had equalised when Clarke dispatched a cross from the right with a superb volley across and past Bachmann, only for their joy to be cut short by the offside flag.
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