REPORT | A wonderful afternoon for a young Academy striker as the Hornets beat Blackpool as Vicarage Road again honoured the club's greatest ever manager WatfordFC
Watford continued their winning start to 2023 in the Championship and moved up to third in the table after a moment that would have brought a broad smile to the face of the club’s greatest ever manager.
Sarr went close to making the breakthrough after four minutes when he hit the bar, but it took until early in the second half when Vakoun Bayo forced a good save out of Maxwell for the home side to really threaten again. Boss Michael Appleton made two changes from their last Championship outing, a 1-1 draw with Sunderland, with Josh Bowler, having returned to the club on loan from Forest, and Morgan Rogers coming into the side.
The game settled down after a rather frenetic opening ten minutes, but the Hornets continued to control proceedings, patiently keeping possession and trying to create attacking openings when possible. The hosts had another opening soon after when Morris had space on the left side of the area to cross but Sarr was unable to get enough on his attempted flicked header.
Like the first half, Watford started the second period positively and went close to making the breakthrough a minute of the restart when Morris released Sarr down the left side of the area and his pull-back was fired goalwards by Bayo, but was kept out by the trailing leg of Maxwell. Bilic then turned to youth again, bringing on Asprilla and Adeyemo for Choudhury and Bayo. It was to have an almost immediate impact.
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