More from Cardiff manager Neil Warnock speaking to BBC Match of the Day: "I thought we had come back into the game well at 1-0 then to get a penalty like that not given. Troy Deeney and all their staff told us it was a stonewall penalty! "Whether they are educated correctly I don't know but it's a clear penalty. I had to try and get it out of their [Cardiff players] minds at half-time. The injustice of it! They [Watford] are a good side but we didn't half get some things tonight... "When everyone from the opponents tell you and deep down I think all the officials knew really. I don't understand at this level why things like that can't be given. There will be mistakes but they will get much more right with VAR. I think the referees guess a lot of the time and you can't do that at this level. "People know if we go in at 1-1 then it's a different ball game. The players were really down at half-time. I have never seen that. We can't allow that to happen. We have quite a few good sides to play between now and the end of the season. It affected me too." Fair enough, it was a joke decision. We got away with one there.
Not too stressful. I still have some red wine to put on my cornflakes. Might have to get in considerable supplies for Wednesday.
Watford scored five goals in a top-flight match for the first time since winning 5-1 against Leicester in November 1986.
Best team we've played over two games this season by by a mile. The skill gap between the two sides was there for all to see. Easy to say we made it easy for you with our poor performance but you got what you deserved in the end - maybe not 5-1, but well done.
i cannot describe what a top night that was! It took nearly 5 hours to get there, the traffic was unbelievably bad almost from leaving Watford and it was stop/start all the way, with accidents galore and roadworks. Still, having left at 1.30pm just in case we got there in good time, and even enough time to wander over to McDs for a quick filet o fish! Yes, definitely a pen and our first yellow potentially could have been a red, so first half we rode our luck and had either of those things happened it would have been a completely different game, but...that's football (easy to say when we're on the winning side!). 1800 away fans were singing loud and proud from start to finish and the atmosphere (in the away end at least) was electric. One of those games i won't forget for a long time, love it when it gets to the point that everyone is hugging strangers! lol. The journey home was a lot quicker, under 3 hours, though a serious accident on the other side of the road didn't look good and slowed us down a little with rubberneckers doing their thing. What a night...now onto Liverpool! Uh oh..lol! COYH. Javi = Watford's hero!
A lot of what TD does goes unnoticed, some of his touches are sublime and are often too good for some of the others to anticipate. Long may he continue as our talisman and captain. Legend.
I sort of felt that some organisation was blocking my stream, missed the Pen call and 3 4 & 5 goals and Cardiffs. Hopefully some decent highlights away from MOTD.
Saw a bit of it on FF and we certainly took our opportunities... from the first goal, to the "penalty" incident, CCFC tactics and selection (changed a winning back line), to complete dominance in the second half... and the fourth goal I'd like to see from where we gained possession- it was the stuff of genius.
Just looked at Fosters initial save prior to Cardiff's goal and it reminded me of Gordon Bank's save against Pele. Nuff said!
please log in to view this image Watford's 4th goal against Cardiff City (scored by Troy Deeney) ended a sequence of 26 uninterrupted passes; the longest sequence leading to a goal scored by a non "big six" team in the competition since September 2014.
I wonder how many of those they'll show on MOTD... Probably just the end and say it was bad defending or GD was lucky the goalie didn't get the ball before he passed to Deeney!
What I saw in the highlights on MOTD after the penalty decision that I didn't see on Sky, was the ref apparently signalling an offside (or at least a signal I interpreted as such) - could the PL have asked the BBC on Saturday morning to put that in to protect the officials and make the decision seem at least reasonable?
It was a lame attempt at the horrid "grasscutter". I think we can safely say that this one went very, very, firmly in our favour!
A quote from a mate: "According to FTRW last night, Watford had a post game VAR review (something that happens in PL) and it was a split decision between a free kick outside box to Murphy stepping towards Janmaat and not towards ball and a free kick to Janmaat. Defo no pen. Ex referees on panel" I stand corrected!
